Research Catalog

Title

Forgotten giants : Sephardic Rabbis before and after the expulsion from Spain / Rabbi Yosef Bitton.

Author

Bitton, Yosef

Publication

• Jerusalem : Gefen Publishing House, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xxiii, 121 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The expulsion from Spain in 1492 is the central event of Spanish Jewish history. Forgotten Giants explores the lives, works, and ideas of twenty-six Sephardic Rabbis in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, in the time period straddling this upheaval. Three generations of rabbis are included: those who were born and lived in Spain, those who were born in Spain but left at a young age, and those who were sons of Spanish refugees. Through the narratives of these twenty-six prominent rabbis lives, we learn about the world of the Jews in Spain before the 1492 expulsion, the struggles of the rabbinical leadership against the missionary efforts of the Church to convert the Jews, and the theological debates that took place, especially during the beginning of the fifteenth century. The expulsion of the Jews from Spain is covered, together with the exile to Portugal, the expulsion from Portugal, and the birth of the new Sephardic Diaspora in Mediterranean countries. Within that Diaspora, the book pays special attention to the establishment of the Spanish refugees in the Land of Israel, in the city of Safed and later on in Jerusalem"--

Subject

• 1492
• Rabbis > Spain > Biography
• Jews > Spain > History > Influence. > Expulsion, 1492
• Sephardim > History
• Rabbis
• Spain

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9789652298744
• 9652298743

LCCN

^^2016013928

OCLC

• 945586047
• SCSB-12545956

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library