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Exiles in Sepharad - The Jewish Millennium in Spain (Paperback)
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Exiles in Sepharad - The Jewish Millennium in Spain (Paperback)
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The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to
life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this
colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture
was at its height in Muslim Spain to the horrors of the Inquisition
and the Expulsion. Twenty percent of Jews today are descended from
Sephardic Jews, who created significant works in religion,
literature, science, and philosophy. They flourished under both
Muslim and Christian rule, enjoying prosperity and power
unsurpassed in Europe. Their cultural contributions include
important poets; the great Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides; and
Moses de Leon, author of the Zohar, the core text of the Kabbalah.
But these Jews also endured considerable hardship. Fundamentalist
Islamic tribes drove them from Muslim to Christian Spain. In 1391
thousands were killed and more than a third were forced to convert
by anti-Jewish rioters. A century later the Spanish Inquisition
began, accusing thousands of these converts of heresy. By the end
of the fifteenth century Jews had been expelled from Spain and
forcibly converted in Portugal and Navarre. After almost a
millennium of harmonious existence, what had been the most populous
and prosperous Jewish community in Europe ceased to exist on the
Iberian Peninsula.
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