Sephardi Jewry
Subtitle: a history of the Judeo-Spanish community, 14th--20th centuries
By: Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue.
Contributors: Rodrigue, Aron.; Benbassa, Esther.
Series: Jewish communities in the modern world ;; 2
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Jews -- Balkan Peninsula -- History; Sephardim -- Balkan Peninsula -- History; Balkan Peninsula -- Ethnic relations
Description: "Until the publication of this history of the Sephardi diaspora, only limited attention had been given to the distinctive Judeo-Spanish cultural entity that flourished in the Balkans and Asia Minor for more than four centuries. Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue show how Sephardi society and culture developed in the Levant, sharing language, religion, customs, and communal life, during prosperous times and during the declining fortunes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"First California printing"--T.p. verso.
"Parts of this publication were first published as Juifs des Balkans ... by Editions La Découverte, 1993"--T.p. verso.
Originally published: The Jews of the Balkans. Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1995. With new prologue.