After Expulsion: 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry
"After Expulsioncharters the (literally and metaphorically) troubled waters of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean with deftness and elegance. It takes us on a journey from Seville to Fez, Salonica and Venice. It fills a notable gap in the literature by offering a synthetic and yet thought-provoking narrative of the most complex period in the early modern history of the Sephardic diaspora."-Francesca Trivellato,Frederic W. Hilles Professor of History, Yale University“Ray’s exciting volume contains a wealth of original insights on the subtle and complex process that transformed the Jewish outcasts of Spain of 1492 into a new society that would become known as the Sephardic diaspora. Based upon a careful reading of a wide variety of Spanish and Hebrew primary and secondary sources, Ray provides a new and rich understanding of the crucial sixteenth century in Jewish history. His refreshing historical analysis provides fruitful and novel interpretations of Sephardic and early modern Jewish history.”-Jane S. Gerber,Professor of History and Director, Institute for Sephardic Studies, City University of New York"This valuable and readable scholarly work will attract academics"-CHOICE,"After Expulsion is a rich and compelling history...With its intense focus on one century, Ray's book makes a distant time and trauma painfully vivid and immediate to the reader." -Jane Mushabac,Jewish Currents Magazine"It should serve as useful supplementary reading for undergraduates and a lucid general survey for lay readers."-Norman Roth,Renaissance Quarterly