Cities of splendour in the shaping of Sephardi history / Jane Gerber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerber, Jane S., author.

Contributor:

Liverpool University Press, associated with work.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sephardim--History.

Sephardim.

Sephardim--Homes and haunts.

Cities and towns--History.

Cities and towns.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2021.

Summary:

Sephardi identity has meant different things at different times, but has always entailed a connection with Spain, from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. While Sephardi Jews have lived in numerous cities and towns throughout history, certain cities had a greater impact in the shaping of their culture. This book focuses on those that may be considered most important, from Cordoba in the tenth century to Toledo, Venice, Safed, Istanbul, Salonica, and Amsterdam at the dawn of the seventeenth century. Each served as a venue in which a particular dimension of Sephardi Jewry either took shape or was expressed in especially intense form.

Contents:

Poetry and politics in the caliphate of Cordoba, 950-1150

Crossing the borders of art and society : Toledo as a meeting place of cultures, 1150-1350

The search for redemption in Safed, 1500-1600

The Jews of Venice : between toleration and expulsion, 1516-1648

Reconstructing Sepharad in Istanbul and Salonica, 1492-1600

Jewish life in Amsterdam and the formation of the Western Sephardi diaspora, 1579-1700.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Published in association with Liverpool University Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 30, 2021).

ISBN:

1-78962-801-6

1-80034-327-2

1-78962-425-8

OCLC:

1482528755