The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain is a detailed study of the events surrounding this infamous chapter in Spanish history. Based on hundreds of documents discovered, deciphered, and analysed during
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Now in paperback, this study of Jewish cultural innovation in early twentieth-century France highlights the complexity and ambivalence of Jewish identity and self-definition in the modern world. Follo
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld, an independent scholar and former curator of the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam, writes through the lens of Ashkenazic Dutch and Sephardic Portugese history in that city. However,