The Jews of Spain and the expulsion of 1492
By: edited by Moshe Lazar and Stephen Haliczer.
Contributors: Lazar, Moshe, 1928-; Haliczer, Stephen, 1942-
Series: The Henry J. Leir library of Sephardica ;; 1
Publisher: Labyrinthos
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Lancaster, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Jews -- Spain -- History.; Inquisition -- Spain -- History -- Sources.; Spain -- Ethnic relations.; Spain -- Civilization -- Jewish influences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"... the essays brought together in this volume ... were developed from conference papers presented at an international symposium entitled "The Jews of Spain and the Expulsion of 1492" held at the University of Southern California in April 1992" -- from p. ix.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Moshe Lazar; title: Introduction by Stephen Haliczer; title: Coexistence and confrontation: Jews and Christians in medieval Spain / Norman Roth; title: The vicissitudes of kabbalah in Catalonia / Moshe Idel; title: A crisis of categories: kabbalah and the rise of apostasy in Spain / José Faur; title: The socio-economic structure of the Jewish aljamas in the Kingdom of Aragon (1391-1492) / Miguel Angel Motis Dolader; title: The Jewish community in Murviedro (1391-1492) / Mark D. Meyerson; title: Jews, Castilian conversos, and the Inquisition: 1482-1492 / Carlos Carrete Parrondo; title: Anti-Jewish and anti-converso propaganda: Confutatio libri talmud and Alboraique / Moshe Lazar; title: The expulsion of the Jews as social process / Stephen Haliczer; title: Facing crisis: the Catholic sovereigns, the expulsion, and the Columbian expedition / Marvin Lunenfeld; title: News about the Jewish community upon its departure / Luis Suárez Fernández Bilbao; title: Jews and conversos in the region of Soria and Almazán: departures and returns / John Edwards; title: The urban conversos in Spain after the expulsion / Jaime Contreras; title: Dubious crimes in sixteenth-century Italy: rethinking the relations between Jews, Christians, and conversos in pre-modern Europe / Roberto Bonfil; title: The theme of Spain in the Sephardic haskalah's literature / Elena Romero.