Farewell Espana

Author : Howard M. Sachar
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804150538

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Farewell Espana by Howard M. Sachar Pdf

Farewell Espana transcends conventional historical narrative. With the lucidity and verve that have characterized his numerous earlier volumes, Howard Sachar breathes life into the leading dramatis personae of the Sephardic world: the royal counselors Samuel ibn Nagrela and Joseph Nasi, the poets Solomon ibn Gabirol and Judah Halevi, the philosophers Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza, the statesmen Benjamin Disraeli and Pierre Mendes-France, the warriors Moshe Pijade and David Elazar, the fabulous charlatans David Reuveni and Shabbatai Zvi. In its breadth and richness of texture, Sachar's account sweeps to the contemporary era of Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco, poignantly traces the fate of Balkan Sephardic communities during the Holocaust -- and their revival in the Land and State of Israel. Not least of all, the author offers a tactile dimension of immediacy in his personal encounters with the storied venues and current personalities of the Sephardic world. Farewell Espana is a window opened on a glowing civilization once all but extinguished, and now flickering again into renewed creativity.

Author : Jeffrey Gorsky
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780827612419

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Exiles in Sepharad by Jeffrey Gorsky Pdf

The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture was at its height in Muslim Spain to the horrors of the Inquisition and the Expulsion. Twenty percent of Jews today are descended from Sephardic Jews, who created significant works in religion, literature, science, and philosophy. They flourished under both Muslim and Christian rule, enjoying prosperity and power unsurpassed in Europe. Their cultural contributions include important poets; the great Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides; and Moses de Leon, author of the Zohar, the core text of the Kabbalah. But these Jews also endured considerable hardship. Fundamentalist Islamic tribes drove them from Muslim to Christian Spain. In 1391 thousands were killed and more than a third were forced to convert by anti-Jewish rioters. A century later the Spanish Inquisition began, accusing thousands of these converts of heresy. By the end of the fifteenth century Jews had been expelled from Spain and forcibly converted in Portugal and Navarre. After almost a millennium of harmonious existence, what had been the most populous and prosperous Jewish community in Europe ceased to exist on the Iberian Peninsula.

Author : Howard M. Sachar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517170078

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Farewell Espana by Howard M. Sachar Pdf

Author : Diego Saglia
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9042004282

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Poetic Castles in Spain by Diego Saglia Pdf

Saglia, a scholar of some sort whose academic affiliations are not noted, charts the various ways in which, between the 1810s and 1820s, Spain figured in British literary culture. Mainly concerned with narrative versions of Spain, specifically metrical tales and verse romances, he traces the contours of the Spanish "imaginary" in British Romanticism, offering a cultural geography of Romantic Spain as a space of war involving not only France and Britain or the Spanish and Moorish armies, but ideological conflicts between public and private; republicanism, nationalism, and imperialism; and competing models of masculinity and femininity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kate O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Spain
ISBN : UOM:39015025359236

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Farewell, Spain by Kate O'Brien Pdf

Author : Giles Tremlett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639730582

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España by Giles Tremlett Pdf

"A book of rich detail.”--The Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of Ghosts of Spain Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer with color illustrations throughout. Spain's position on Europe's southwestern corner has exposed the country to cultural, political, and literal winds blowing from all quadrants throughout the country's ancient history. Africa lies a mere nine miles to the south, separated by the Strait of Gibraltar-a mountain range struck, Spaniards believe, by Hercules, in an immaculate and divine display of strength. The Mediterranean connects Spain to the civilizational currents of Phoenicians, Romans, Carthaginians, and Byzantines as well as the Arabic lands of the near east. Hordes from the Russian steppes were amongst the first to arrive. They would be followed by Visigoths, Arabs, and Napoleonic armies and many more invaders and immigrants. Circular winds and currents extended its borders to the American continent, allowing it to conquer and colonize much of the New World as the first ever global empire. Spain, as we know it today, was made by generations-worth of changing peoples, worshipping Christian, Jewish, and Muslim gods over time. The foundation of its story has been drawn and debated, celebrated and reproached. Whenever it has tried to deny its heterogeneity and create a “pure” national identity, the narrative has proved impossible to maintain. In España, Giles Tremlett, who has lived in and written about Spain for over thirty years, swiftly traces every stretch of Spain's history to argue that a lack of a homogenous identity is Spain's defining trait. With gorgeous color images, España is perfect for lovers of Spain and fans of international history.

Author : Dolores Sloan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476615554

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The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal by Dolores Sloan Pdf

Prior to 1492, Jews had flourished on the Iberian Peninsula for hundreds of years. Marked by alternating cooperative coexistence and selective persecution alongside Christians and Muslims, this remarkable period was a golden age for Iberian Jews, with significant and culturally diverse advances in sciences, arts and government. This work traces the history of the Sephardic Jews from their golden age to their post–Columbian diaspora. It highlights achievements in science, medicine, philosophy, arts, economy and government, alongside a few less noble accomplishments, in both the land they left behind and in the lands they settled later. Several significant Sephardic Jews are profiled in detail, and later chapters explore the increasing restrictions on Jews prior to expulsion, the divergent fates of two diaspora communities (in Brazil and the Ottoman Empire), and the enduring legacy of Sephardic history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827611102

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Not to Worry (h) by Anonim Pdf

"With its mix of folklore, history, inspiration, and psychological insights, this is an excellent guide for worriers and those close to them, history and folklore enthusiasts, and students of Jewish culture and religion, as well as for counseling professionals and those searching for Jewish spirituality and renewal."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sylvia Barack Fishman, PhD
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580236768

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The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness by Sylvia Barack Fishman, PhD Pdf

An accessible introduction to the many ways Jews understand Jewishness and identify themselves and their communities—throughout history and today. For everyone who wants to understand the varieties of Jewish identity, its boundaries and inclusions, this book explores the religious and historical understanding of what it has meant to be Jewish from ancient times to the present controversy over “Who is a Jew?” Beginning with the biblical period, it takes readers era by era through Jewish history to reveal who the Jewish community included and excluded, and discusses the fascinating range of historical conflicts that Jews have dealt with internally. It provides an understanding of how the Jewish people and faith developed, and of what the major religious differences are among Jewish movements today.

Author : Francine Friedman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004471054

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Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Francine Friedman Pdf

A numerically small Jewish community helped their ethnically embattled neighbors in a neutral, humanitarian way to survive the longest modern siege, Sarajevo, in the early 1990s.

Author : Susana Belenguer,Ciaran Cosgrove,James Whiston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317525424

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Living the Death of Democracy in Spain by Susana Belenguer,Ciaran Cosgrove,James Whiston Pdf

This volume brings together new interdisciplinary perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, its victims, its contentious ending, and its aftermath. In exploring the slow demise of the Spanish Republic and the course of the Civil War, the authors have chosen to range in turn over cinematic, literary and historical depictions of the era. In addition, reactions elsewhere in Europe to the Spanish conflict are examined; the role of the International Brigades is looked at afresh; the fate of children displaced during the Civil War is explored; and the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement is revisited. The volume shows that to be any kind of soldier in the armies of the Republic, or even to be seen as a Republican sympathiser, was to become a "non-person" in the new order in Spain under Franco, and sets what supporters of the Republic had to endure within the wider European and international context of the period. This book offers timely fresh insights into the failure of the Spanish Republic and into a society that tried in vain to unite its divided people during what was a seismic era in Spain’s history. This book was originally published as a special issue of Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Author : Peter Adam Nash
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611476729

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The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel by Peter Adam Nash Pdf

The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight tells the remarkable story of Moses Ezekiel and his rise to international fame as an artist in late nineteenth-century Italy. Sephardic Jew, homosexual, Confederate soldier, Southern apologist, opponent of slavery, patriot, expatriate, mystic, Victorian, dandy, good Samaritan, humanist, royalist, romantic, reactionary, republican, monist, dualist, theosophist, freemason, champion of religious freedom, proto-Zionist, and proverbial Court Jew, Moses Ezekiel was a riddle of a man, a puzzle of seemingly irreconcilable parts. Knighted by three European monarchs, courted by the rich and famous, Moses Ezekiel lived the life of an aristocrat with rarely a penny to his name. Making his home in the capacious ruins of the Baths of Diocletian in Rome, he quickly distinguished himself as the consummate artist and host, winning international fame for his work and consorting with many of the lions and luminaries of the fin-de-siècle world, including Giuseppe Garibaldi, Queen Margherita, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Sarah Bernhardt, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Eleonora Duse, Annie Besant, Clara Schumann, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Alphonse Daudet, Mark Twain, Émile Zola, Robert E. Lee, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Isaac Mayer Wise. In a city besieged with eccentrics, he, a Southern Jewish homosexual sculptor, was outstanding, an enigma to those who knew him, a man at once stubbornly original and deeply emblematic of his times. According to Stanley Chyet in his introduction to Ezekiel’s memoirs, “The contemporary European struggle between liberalism and reaction, between modernity and feudalism, between the democratic and the hierarchical is rather amply refracted in Ezekiel’s account of his life in Rome.” Indeed so many of the contentious cultural, political, artistic, and scientific struggles of the age converged in the figure of this adroit and prepossessing Jew.

Author : Gerald R. Kleinfeld,Lewis Tambs
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811759427

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Hitler's Spanish Legion by Gerald R. Kleinfeld,Lewis Tambs Pdf

A classic story of the 47,000 Spaniards who fought for the Third Reich in World War II. • Vivid chronicle of the division of Spanish volunteers who battled the Soviets on the Eastern Front • Centerpiece of their service was the Siege of Leningrad, which is covered in depth here • Details on how Spanish dictator Francisco Franco negotiated his countrymen's participation

Author : Fanny Bullock Workman,William Hunter Workman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Bicycle touring
ISBN : PRNC:32101073463950

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Sketches Awheel in Fin de Siècle Iberia by Fanny Bullock Workman,William Hunter Workman Pdf

Author : Jo Labanyi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : National characteristics, Spanish
ISBN : 0198159935

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Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain by Jo Labanyi Pdf

These interdisciplinary essays focus on how cultural practices help form the Spanish identity, by introducing a range of theoretical debates and exploring specific areas of 20th century Spanish culture.