TY - BOOK ID - 118089197 TI - Jewish Life in Medieval Spain : A New History. PY - 2023 SN - 9781512823844 9781512823837 1512823848 PB - Boston : University of Pennsylvania Press, DB - UniCat KW - Jews KW - Middle Ages. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies. KW - Dark Ages KW - History, Medieval KW - Medieval history KW - Medieval period KW - Middle Ages KW - World history, Medieval KW - World history KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - Medievalism KW - Renaissance KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Civilization. KW - History. KW - History KW - 1391 massacre. KW - 1492. KW - Al-Andalus. KW - Castile. KW - Christian rule. KW - Conversos. KW - Crown of Aragon. KW - Iberia. KW - Inquisition. KW - Jewish Spain. KW - Jewish history. KW - Medieval Spain. KW - Muslim rule. KW - Sepharad. KW - Sephardic Jews. KW - Sephardim. KW - black death. KW - daily life. KW - exile. KW - expulsion. KW - fifteenth century. KW - fourteenth century. KW - kabbalah. KW - mass conversion. KW - plague. KW - pogrom. KW - poverty. KW - riots. KW - social history. KW - Jewish religion KW - History of Spain KW - anno 800-1199 KW - anno 1200-1499 KW - To 1500 KW - Spain KW - Espagne KW - Civilization KW - Jewish influences. KW - Ethnic relations KW - Civilisation KW - Influence juive. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118089197 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. ER -