This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary
sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi
Jews-descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal
settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including
the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine. Reflecting Sephardi history
in all its diversity, from the courtyard to the courthouse, spheres
intimate, political, commercial, familial, and religious, these
documents show life within these distinctive Jewish communities as
well as between Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Sephardi Lives offer
readers an intimate view of how Sephardim experienced the major
regional and world events of the modern era-natural disasters,
violence and wars, the transition from empire to nation-states, and
the Holocaust. This collection also provides a vivid exploration of
the day-to-day lives of Sephardi women, men, boys, and girls in the
Judeo-Spanish heartland of the Ottoman Balkans and Middle East, as
well as the emigre centers Sephardim settled throughout the
twentieth century, including North and South America, Africa, Asia,
and Europe. The selections are of a vast range, including private
letters from family collections, rabbinical writings, documents of
state, memoirs and diaries, court records, selections from the
popular press, and scholarship. In a single volume, Sephardi Lives
preserves the cultural richness and historical complexity of a
Sephardi world that is no more.
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