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Farewell Espana

Author : Howard M. Sachar
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804150532
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Farewell Espana written by Howard M. Sachar and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farewell Espana transcends conventional historical narrative. With the lucidity and verve that have characterized his numerous earlier volumes, Howard Sachar breathes life into the leading dramatis personae of the Sephardic world: the royal counselors Samuel ibn Nagrela and Joseph Nasi, the poets Solomon ibn Gabirol and Judah Halevi, the philosophers Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza, the statesmen Benjamin Disraeli and Pierre Mendes-France, the warriors Moshe Pijade and David Elazar, the fabulous charlatans David Reuveni and Shabbatai Zvi. In its breadth and richness of texture, Sachar's account sweeps to the contemporary era of Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco, poignantly traces the fate of Balkan Sephardic communities during the Holocaust -- and their revival in the Land and State of Israel. Not least of all, the author offers a tactile dimension of immediacy in his personal encounters with the storied venues and current personalities of the Sephardic world. Farewell Espana is a window opened on a glowing civilization once all but extinguished, and now flickering again into renewed creativity.

Exiles in Sepharad

Author : Jeffrey Gorsky
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827612419
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Exiles in Sepharad written by Jeffrey Gorsky and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture was at its height in Muslim Spain to the horrors of the Inquisition and the Expulsion. Twenty percent of Jews today are descended from Sephardic Jews, who created significant works in religion, literature, science, and philosophy. They flourished under both Muslim and Christian rule, enjoying prosperity and power unsurpassed in Europe. Their cultural contributions include important poets; the great Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides; and Moses de Leon, author of the Zohar, the core text of the Kabbalah. But these Jews also endured considerable hardship. Fundamentalist Islamic tribes drove them from Muslim to Christian Spain. In 1391 thousands were killed and more than a third were forced to convert by anti-Jewish rioters. A century later the Spanish Inquisition began, accusing thousands of these converts of heresy. By the end of the fifteenth century Jews had been expelled from Spain and forcibly converted in Portugal and Navarre. After almost a millennium of harmonious existence, what had been the most populous and prosperous Jewish community in Europe ceased to exist on the Iberian Peninsula.

Farewell, Spain

Author : Kate O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Farewell, Spain written by Kate O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Farewell Espana

Author : Howard M. Sachar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517170076
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Farewell Espana written by Howard M. Sachar and published by . This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poetic Castles in Spain

Author : Diego Saglia
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042004283
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Poetic Castles in Spain written by Diego Saglia and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saglia, a scholar of some sort whose academic affiliations are not noted, charts the various ways in which, between the 1810s and 1820s, Spain figured in British literary culture. Mainly concerned with narrative versions of Spain, specifically metrical tales and verse romances, he traces the contours of the Spanish "imaginary" in British Romanticism, offering a cultural geography of Romantic Spain as a space of war involving not only France and Britain or the Spanish and Moorish armies, but ideological conflicts between public and private; republicanism, nationalism, and imperialism; and competing models of masculinity and femininity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

España

Author : Giles Tremlett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1639730583
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book España written by Giles Tremlett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book of rich detail.”--The Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of Ghosts of Spain Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer with color illustrations throughout. Spain's position on Europe's southwestern corner has exposed the country to cultural, political, and literal winds blowing from all quadrants throughout the country's ancient history. Africa lies a mere nine miles to the south, separated by the Strait of Gibraltar-a mountain range struck, Spaniards believe, by Hercules, in an immaculate and divine display of strength. The Mediterranean connects Spain to the civilizational currents of Phoenicians, Romans, Carthaginians, and Byzantines as well as the Arabic lands of the near east. Hordes from the Russian steppes were amongst the first to arrive. They would be followed by Visigoths, Arabs, and Napoleonic armies and many more invaders and immigrants. Circular winds and currents extended its borders to the American continent, allowing it to conquer and colonize much of the New World as the first ever global empire. Spain, as we know it today, was made by generations-worth of changing peoples, worshipping Christian, Jewish, and Muslim gods over time. The foundation of its story has been drawn and debated, celebrated and reproached. Whenever it has tried to deny its heterogeneity and create a “pure” national identity, the narrative has proved impossible to maintain. In España, Giles Tremlett, who has lived in and written about Spain for over thirty years, swiftly traces every stretch of Spain's history to argue that a lack of a homogenous identity is Spain's defining trait. With gorgeous color images, España is perfect for lovers of Spain and fans of international history.

The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal

Author : Dolores Sloan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615551
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal written by Dolores Sloan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to 1492, Jews had flourished on the Iberian Peninsula for hundreds of years. Marked by alternating cooperative coexistence and selective persecution alongside Christians and Muslims, this remarkable period was a golden age for Iberian Jews, with significant and culturally diverse advances in sciences, arts and government. This work traces the history of the Sephardic Jews from their golden age to their post-Columbian diaspora. It highlights achievements in science, medicine, philosophy, arts, economy and government, alongside a few less noble accomplishments, in both the land they left behind and in the lands they settled later. Several significant Sephardic Jews are profiled in detail, and later chapters explore the increasing restrictions on Jews prior to expulsion, the divergent fates of two diaspora communities (in Brazil and the Ottoman Empire), and the enduring legacy of Sephardic history.

Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World

Author : Barry L. Stiefel
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611173213
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World written by Barry L. Stiefel and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural and architectural history of Judaism as it expanded and took root in the Atlantic world Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a unique blend of cultural and architectural history that considers Jewish heritage as it expanded among the continents and islands linked by the Atlantic Ocean between the mid-fifteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Barry L. Stiefel achieves a powerful synthesis of material culture research and traditional historical research in his examination of the early modern Jewish diaspora in the New World. Through this generously illustrated work, Stiefel examines forty-six synagogues built in Europe, South America, the Caribbean Islands, colonial and antebellum North America, and Gibraltar to discover what liturgies, construction methods, and architectural styles were transported from the Old World to the New World. Some are famous—Touro in Newport, Rhode Island; Bevis Marks in London; and Mikve Israel in Curaçao—while others had short-lived congregations whose buildings were lost. The two great traditions of Judaism—Sephardic and Ashkenazic—found homes in the Atlantic World. Examining buildings and congregations that survive, Stiefel offers valuable insights on their connections and commonalities. If both the congregations and buildings are gone, the author re-creates them by using modern heritage preservation tools that have expanded the heuristic repertoire, tools from such diverse sources as architectural studies, archaeology, computer modeling and rendering, and geographic information systems. When combined these bring a richer understanding of the past than incomplete, uncertain traditional historical resources. Buildings figure as key indicators in Stiefel's analysis of Jewish life and social experience, while the author's immersion in the faith and practice of Judaism invigorates every aspect of his work.

Not to Worry (h)

Author :
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 9780827611108
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Not to Worry (h) written by and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With its mix of folklore, history, inspiration, and psychological insights, this is an excellent guide for worriers and those close to them, history and folklore enthusiasts, and students of Jewish culture and religion, as well as for counseling professionals and those searching for Jewish spirituality and renewal."--BOOK JACKET.

The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness

Author : Sylvia Barack Fishman, PhD
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1580236766
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness written by Sylvia Barack Fishman, PhD and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the many ways Jews understand Jewishness and identify themselves and their communities—throughout history and today. For everyone who wants to understand the varieties of Jewish identity, its boundaries and inclusions, this book explores the religious and historical understanding of what it has meant to be Jewish from ancient times to the present controversy over “Who is a Jew?” Beginning with the biblical period, it takes readers era by era through Jewish history to reveal who the Jewish community included and excluded, and discusses the fascinating range of historical conflicts that Jews have dealt with internally. It provides an understanding of how the Jewish people and faith developed, and of what the major religious differences are among Jewish movements today.

Hitler's Spanish Legion

Author : Gerald R. Kleinfeld
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811759423
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Spanish Legion written by Gerald R. Kleinfeld and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic story of the 47,000 Spaniards who fought for the Third Reich in World War II. • Vivid chronicle of the division of Spanish volunteers who battled the Soviets on the Eastern Front • Centerpiece of their service was the Siege of Leningrad, which is covered in depth here • Details on how Spanish dictator Francisco Franco negotiated his countrymen's participation

Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author : Francine Friedman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004471057
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina written by Francine Friedman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A numerically small Jewish community helped their ethnically embattled neighbors in a neutral, humanitarian way to survive the longest modern siege, Sarajevo, in the early 1990s.

The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel

Author : Peter Adam Nash
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611476720
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel written by Peter Adam Nash and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight tells the remarkable story of Moses Ezekiel and his rise to international fame as an artist in late nineteenth-century Italy. Sephardic Jew, homosexual, Confederate soldier, Southern apologist, opponent of slavery, patriot, expatriate, mystic, Victorian, dandy, good Samaritan, humanist, royalist, romantic, reactionary, republican, monist, dualist, theosophist, freemason, champion of religious freedom, proto-Zionist, and proverbial Court Jew, Moses Ezekiel was a riddle of a man, a puzzle of seemingly irreconcilable parts. Knighted by three European monarchs, courted by the rich and famous, Moses Ezekiel lived the life of an aristocrat with rarely a penny to his name. Making his home in the capacious ruins of the Baths of Diocletian in Rome, he quickly distinguished himself as the consummate artist and host, winning international fame for his work and consorting with many of the lions and luminaries of the fin-de-siècle world, including Giuseppe Garibaldi, Queen Margherita, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Sarah Bernhardt, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Eleonora Duse, Annie Besant, Clara Schumann, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Alphonse Daudet, Mark Twain, Émile Zola, Robert E. Lee, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Isaac Mayer Wise. In a city besieged with eccentrics, he, a Southern Jewish homosexual sculptor, was outstanding, an enigma to those who knew him, a man at once stubbornly original and deeply emblematic of his times. According to Stanley Chyet in his introduction to Ezekiel’s memoirs, “The contemporary European struggle between liberalism and reaction, between modernity and feudalism, between the democratic and the hierarchical is rather amply refracted in Ezekiel’s account of his life in Rome.” Indeed so many of the contentious cultural, political, artistic, and scientific struggles of the age converged in the figure of this adroit and prepossessing Jew.

Living the Death of Democracy in Spain

Author : Susana Belenguer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317525426
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Living the Death of Democracy in Spain written by Susana Belenguer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together new interdisciplinary perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, its victims, its contentious ending, and its aftermath. In exploring the slow demise of the Spanish Republic and the course of the Civil War, the authors have chosen to range in turn over cinematic, literary and historical depictions of the era. In addition, reactions elsewhere in Europe to the Spanish conflict are examined; the role of the International Brigades is looked at afresh; the fate of children displaced during the Civil War is explored; and the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement is revisited. The volume shows that to be any kind of soldier in the armies of the Republic, or even to be seen as a Republican sympathiser, was to become a "non-person" in the new order in Spain under Franco, and sets what supporters of the Republic had to endure within the wider European and international context of the period. This book offers timely fresh insights into the failure of the Spanish Republic and into a society that tried in vain to unite its divided people during what was a seismic era in Spain’s history. This book was originally published as a special issue of Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain

Author : Jo Labanyi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198159933
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain written by Jo Labanyi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These interdisciplinary essays focus on how cultural practices help form the Spanish identity, by introducing a range of theoretical debates and exploring specific areas of 20th century Spanish culture.

Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era

Author : Ann Catherine Hoag
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040095828
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era written by Ann Catherine Hoag and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era engages feminist, temporal, and narrative theories to offer fresh examinations of interwar-era accounts by women about travel and movement and considers the use and limitations of time as a subversive force in their texts. This book makes a significant contribution to the under-examined study of women’s travel writing between the wars and synthesises and applies a variety of feminist, narrative, and postcolonial theories to excavate new understandings of the intersection between women, travel, and time in writing. The book studies the emergence of the aviatrix after the Great War and moves through to the representations of war in women’s travel on the brink of World War II. Each chapter offers a unique theoretical framework and examines how experiences of time impact perceptions of women’s bodies and identities, their engagement with history and discourse, and the problematic influence on colonialism. Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era is essential reading to any student or researcher in the field of women’s travel writing, as well as scholars of gender studies, war and interwar history, and cultural heritage.

Sketches Awheel in Fin de Siècle Iberia

Author : Fanny Bullock Workman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Sketches Awheel in Fin de Siècle Iberia written by Fanny Bullock Workman and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: