{"product_id":"cities-of-splendour-in-the-shaping-of-sephardi-history-1","title":"Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History","description":"\u003cp\u003eSephardi identity has\nmeant different things at different times, but has always entailed a connection\nwith Spain, from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. While Sephardi Jews have\nlived in numerous cities and towns throughout history, certain cities had a\ngreater impact in the shaping of their culture. This book focuses on those that\nmay be considered most important, from Cordoba in the tenth century to Toledo,\nVenice, Safed, Istanbul, Salonica, and Amsterdam at the dawn of the seventeenth\ncentury. Each served as a venue in which a particular dimension of Sephardi\nJewry either took shape or was expressed in especially intense form.\nSignificantly, these cities were mostly heterogeneous in their population and\nculture—half of them under Christian rule and half under Muslim rule—and this\ntoo shaped the Sephardi world-view and attitude. While Sephardim cultivated a\ndistinctive identity, they felt at home in the cultures of their adopted lands.\nDrawing upon a variety of both primary and secondary sources, Jane Gerber\ndemonstrates that Sephardi history and culture have always been multifaceted.\nHer interdisciplinary approach captures the many contexts in which the life of\nthe Jews from Iberia unfolded, without either romanticizing the past or\ndiluting its reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250078306648,"sku":"9781835539972","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781835539972.jpg?v=1779945348","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cities-of-splendour-in-the-shaping-of-sephardi-history-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}