Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries
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...
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Praise for the French edition:"The most complete and thorough historical synthesis ever written in a European language on the Jewish communities of the Balkans and Turkey."—Michel Abitbol, L'arche"A rich and too-little-known history that successfully avoids twin snares: the myth of the irreparable decadence of oriental Judaism and the myth of the lost golden age of Spain."—Alain Dieckhoff, Les Nouveaux Cahiers"The authors illuminate the variety of responses—between the poles of westernizing and holding onto tradition—offered by these Jewish societies of the Levantine Sephardi cultural area to the processes of modernization, as well as their startling receptivity to the new ideologies of zionism and socialism that marked the end of the nineteenth century." —Annales
List of MapsNote on TranslationNote on Transliteration and Place NamesSeries Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionPrologueNotes to the Prologue1Community and Society12Economy and Culture363Eastern Sephardi Jewry in the Era of Westernization654Paths of Politicization1165The End of the Judeo-Spanish Balkans: The Holocaust and Migrations159Conclusion192Notes199Archival Sources267Newspapers and Periodicals268Select Bibliography271Index of Names and Places299Subject Index306
