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Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience Jane S. Gerber
Publisher: Free Press

Dec 5, 2009 - The term “Crypto-Jew” dates from 1893, when it was used in an article in the British journal Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England. As did the Sephardic Museum of Granada in Spain, for obvious reasons. Looking back, it was this experience and many others like it that led me back home to Italy to connect with my Italian Jewish roots, and, as a rabbi, to establish a synagogue in my ancestral village of Serrastretta, in the mountains of Calabria, near the “toe” of Italy's “boot. Jun 7, 2013 - The Jewish Museum of Vienna is a museum of Jewish history, life and religion in Austria, starting with the first settlements at Judenplatz in the C13th. Mar 10, 2013 - The “dangerous” and “extraordinary” rise in anti-Semitism comes at a time when Spain is mired in the worst economic recession in its modern history, and the authors of the report conclude that Jews are increasingly becoming a . I also learned that no Some historians insist, in fact, that the Inquisition was established in Spain in 1481 not to convert the Jews, as I had always thought, but to eradicate what were believed to be large numbers of surreptitiously still-Jewish families among the conversos, both anusim and meshumadim (willing converts). Forget Muladies, history (as dictated by “traditional” Spanish/Portuguese history) would remember these Muslims as Moors, foreign invaders of Arabic or (North) African origin who merely “occupied” Iberia as oppressive Islamic overlords. Oct 30, 2013 - For a popular history of the Sephardic Jews, see Jane Gerber's The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience (New York: The Free Press, 1992). Sephardic Jews invited back to Spain after 500 years . Feb 22, 2013 - Spain finally decided to right a 521-year-old wrong when they announced in November of 2012 that they would grant automatic citizenship to individuals of Sephardic Jewish descent. Sep 25, 2013 - A descendant of one of the first English families to arrive on the island, Walcott has spent his life exploring the various cultures and historical threads that weave through his homeland. Founded in 1896, this was the first major Jewish museum anywhere, supported and run by the Society for the Collection The Holocaust Gallery explores the impact of Nazism through the experiences and personal items of Auschwitz survivors. My experience with Portuguese politics is that what is generally thought of as the left tends to have a better understanding of the global Zionist phenomenon than do the conservatives. Feb 9, 2014 - A traitorous rat, Spain's Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon, has announced that Spain owes a great debt to the Sephardic Jewish community, and is thus going to put any Sephardic Jew who wants citizenship in Spain on the . Feb 27, 2014 - Sephardic music traces its roots to the Jews of medieval Spain and is often composed in Hebrew as well as in Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language that was to Sephardic Jews what Yiddish was to Ashkenazim. This change in official Spanish policy “It puts Spain in a different category of country,” in terms of their willingness to remedy historical problems with their Jewish community. Dec 31, 2013 - Then, if religion came up, I had the chance to tell about my Jewish background: the little Sephardic synagogue my father sometimes took me to and the holidays and festivals we celebrated at home.