RT Book
T1 Jewish life in medieval Spain: a new history
T2 Jewish Culture and Contexts
A1 Ray, Jonathan
LA English
PP Philadelphia
PB University of Pennsylvania Press
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1822465362
AB Jewish Life in Medieval Spain is a detailed exploration of the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of 1492. An important contribution of the book is the integration of the rise and fall of Jewish life in Muslim al-Andalus into the history of the Jews in medieval Christian Spain. It traces the collapse of Jewish life in Muslim Spain, the emigration of Andalusi Jewry to the lands of Christian Iberia, and the long and difficult confluence of these two distinct Jewish subcultures.Focusing on internal developments of Jewish society, it offers a narrative of Jewish history from the inside out, bringing to light the various divisions and rivalries within the Jewish community. This approach, in turn, allows for a deeper understanding of the complex relations between Spanish Jews and their Muslim and Christian neighbors. Jonathan Ray’s original perspective on the Jewish experience is particularly instructive when considering the widescale anti-Jewish riots of 1391. The combination of violence and mass conversion of the Jews irrevocably shifted the dynamics of inter-religious relations as well as those within the Jewish community itself. Yet even in the wake of these tragic events, the Jews of Spain continued to flourish, fostering a culture that they would carry into exile and that would preserve the memory of Jewish Spain for centuries to come
OP 352
CN DS135.S7
SN 9781512823844
K1 Jews : Spain : Civilization
K1 Jews : Spain : History
K1 Middle Ages
K1 Juden
K1 Mittelalter
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
K1 Spanien
K1 1391 massacre
K1 Christian rule
K1 Jewish Spain
K1 Muslim rule
K1 Sephardic Jews
K1 black death
K1 daily life
K1 exile
K1 fifteenth century
K1 fourteenth century
K1 plague
K1 pogrom
K1 poverty
K1 social history
K1 1492
K1 Al-Andalus
K1 Castile
K1 Conversos
K1 Crown of Aragon
K1 Iberia
K1 Inquisition
K1 Jewish history
K1 Medieval Spain
K1 Sepharad
K1 Sephardim
K1 expulsion
K1 kabbalah
K1 mass conversion
K1 riots
K1 Muslim-Jewish relations
K1 1391
K1 Christian-Jewish relations
K1 Spanish Inquisition
DO 10.9783/9781512823844