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Sephardic Identity
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Pages: 248
Authors: George K. Zucker
Categories: History
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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
Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas
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Pages: 278
Authors: Margalit Bejarano
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-18 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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Offers a wide overview of the Sephardic presence in North and South America through eleven essays discussing culture, history, literature, language, religion an
Sephardic Jews in America
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Aviva Ben-Ur
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: NYU Press

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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
Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Ronnie Perelis
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-21 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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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
Sephardism
Language: en
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Authors: Yael Halevi-Wise
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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