By focusing on the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in such detail—for example, by naming the magistrates who presided over the confiscation of Jewish communal property—Professor Beinart takes history out of the realm of abstraction and places it in the realm of concrete reality, reminding us that events were driven by decisions made by real people, and that real people were affected by these events.
1 map, 2 charts, 2 facsimiles, 4 tables
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002
'Magisterial . . . provides insights, descriptions, and interpretations built on an impregnable base of scholarship . . This sine qua non for any study and understanding of the vents leading up to 1492 deserves an honoured place in all serious libraries.'
Stephen D. Benin, Choice
'The most comprehensive study of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. It summarizes and synthesizes the author¹s decades-long work in Spanish archives . . . indispensable for the study of Spanish Jewry.'
Morris M. Faierstein, Religious Studies Review
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