History of a Tragedy
The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
Hochroth, Lysa
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BOOK SUMMARY
Few events in the history of Spain have provoked as much controversy as the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. Conflicts within the Catholic Church, suspicions within the newly unified Spain, and the claims of Spanish merchants combined to make the Spain of F
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Few events in the history of Spain have provoked as much controversy as the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. Conflicts within the Catholic Church, suspicions within the newly unified Spain, and the claims of Spanish merchants combined to make the Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella intolerant and inquisitorial. Yet the roots of Spanish anti-Semitism went deeper. In this concise survey of the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews, Joseph Pérez studies the evolution of the Jewish community in Spain from the time of the Visigoths to the reign of the Catholic kings. He explores the Jewish community’s role in creating and sustaining the vibrant cultural, political, and economic world of medieval Spain, and how growing religious intolerance, a pervasive resentment of the “others,” and a string of escalating encroachments culminated in expulsion.
AUTHOR BIO
Joseph Pérez is currently the director of the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. He is the author of La révolution des "Communidades” de Castille, 1520-1521 and other books. Lysa Hochroth is currently an editor with the International Council of Museums in Paris. Her previous translations includealso Enrique Florescano’s The Myth of Quetzalcoatl.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0252031415
ISBN(13-digit): 9780252031410
Dewey Decimal: 946/.004924
Library of Congress: 2006036185
Book Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 176
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