The Expulsion of the Jews : 1492 and after / edited by Raymond B. Waddington, Arthur H. Williamson
1994, 1st edition. New York : Garland Pub. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #416829
ISBN: 081531681X
Physical description; x, 296 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm. Notes; Papers presented at the conference, "The Expulsion of the Jews: 1492 and After," held at the University of California, Davis, on 1-4 April 1992. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The death of coexistence : Jews and Moslems in Christian Spain, 1480-1502 / E. William Monter -- New Christian religious alternatives / Jerome Friedman -- Male and female religious experience among Spanish New Christians, 1450-1500 / John H. Edwards -- A sixteenth-century Castilian midwife and her encounter with the Inquisition / René Levine Melammed -- A forgotten fragment of the diaspora : the Jews of São Tomé Island, 1492-1654 / Robert Garfield -- Graven images : sixteenth-century portrait medals of Jews / Raymond B. Waddington -- Custom, law, and gender : levirate union among Ashkenazim and Sephardim in Italy after the expulsion from Spain / Howard Adelman -- Kabbala and expulsion : the case of Abraham Cohen de Herrera / Kenneth Krabbenhoft -- The contribution of exiled Portuguese Jews in Renaissance medical ethics / Winfried Schleiner -- Between tolerance and abomination : Jews in sixteenth-century Poland / Zenon Guldon and Waldemar Kowalski -- The Gothic Kabbala : Johannes Bureus, Runic theosophy and Northern European apocalypticism / Susanna Åkerman -- Hebrew censorship in Hanau : a mirror of Jewish-Christian coexistance in seventeenth-century Germany / Stephen G. Burnett -- Christian ethnographies of Jews in early modern Germany / R. Po-chia Hsia -- "A pil for pork-eaters" : ethnic identity, apocalyptic promises, and the strange creation of the Judeo-Scots / Arthur H. Williamson -- Jewish monotheism, Christian heresy, and Sir Issac Newton/ James E. Force. Subjects; Jews Spain History ; Congresses. Sephardim History ; Congresses. Ethnic relations, Jews. Sephardim. Diaspora. Jews Spain History ; Congresses. Sephardim History ; Congresses. Jews Spain History. Sephardim History. Spain Ethnic relations. Jews Medals. Portrait medallions.
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