In the Early Modern period, the religious refugee became a constant presence in the European landscape, a presence which was felt, in the wake of processes of g
The Western Sephardic communities came into being as a result of confessional migration. However, in contrast to the other European confessional communities, th
The religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century. Over the following two and a half centuries, millions of Jews, Muslims,
Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book. Women’s experience of exile was often different from that of men, yet it has not received
From the sixteenth century on, hundreds of Portuguese New Christians began to flow to Venice and Livorno in Italy, and to Amsterdam and Hamburg in northwest Eur