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Sephardi Jewry - A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries (Paperback)
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Sephardi Jewry - A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries (Paperback)
Series: Jewish Communities in the Modern World, 2
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Until the publication of this remarkably comprehensive history of
the Sephardi diaspora, only limited attention had been given to the
distinctive Judeo-Spanish cultural entity that flourished in the
Balkans and Asia Minor for more than four centuries. Yet the great
majority of Sephardi Jews, after their expulsion from Spain in 1492
and subsequently from Portugal, found their way to this region,
drawn by the political stability and relatively tolerant rule of
the Ottoman Empire, as well as by promising socioeconomic
conditions. Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue show how Sephardi
society and culture developed in the Levant, sharing language,
religion, customs, and communal life as they did nowhere else, both
during prosperous times and during the declining fortunes of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The impact of westernization,
the end of Ottoman power, and the rise of fragmenting nation-states
transformed this vital community in the modern era. And, like many
other Jewish communities, the unique Judeo-Spanish culture was
dispersed and destroyed by the Holocaust and the migrations of the
twentieth century. "Sephardi Jewry" presents its vivid history in a
readable, well-documented narrative.
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