Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History Gerber Hardback

Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi HistoryAuthor(s): Jane S. Gerber\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization\nISBN-13: 9781904113300, 978-1904113300\nSynopsis\nSephardi identity has meant different things at different times, but has always entailed a connection with Spain, from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. While Sephardi Jews have lived in numerous cities and towns throughout history, certain cities had a greater impact in the shaping of their culture. This book focuses on those that may be considered most important, from Cordoba in the tenth century to Toledo, Venice, Safed, Istanbul, Salonica, and Amsterdam at the dawn of the seventeenth century. Each served as a venue in which a particular dimension of Sephardi Jewry either took shape or was expressed in especially intense form. Significantly, these cities were mostly heterogeneous in their population and culturehalf of them u.