The Sephardim, a group of Jews whose ancestors were exiled from the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 15th century, have fought to retain their identity. Thes
Offers a wide overview of the Sephardic presence in North and South America through eleven essays discussing culture, history, literature, language, religion an
A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans
Identity, family, and community unite three autobiographical texts by New World crypto-Jews, or descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity i
In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor. Since the nineteenth century, this metaph