Sephardi lives : a documentary history, 1700-1950 / / edited by Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787088903321
• Autore: Cohen Julia Philips
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8047-9191-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Collana: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• Disciplina: 909/.0492408
• Soggetti: Sephardim - History; Jewish diaspora - History; Jews - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Sephardi Lives: An Introduction -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 a