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Sephardic Identity: Essays on a Vanishing Jewish Culture

Sephardic Identity: Essays on a Vanishing Jewish Culture

Zucker, George K.

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 0786420219
ISBN13: 9780786420216
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Mar 9 2005
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

The Sephardim, a fast-disappearing group of Jews whose ancestors were exiled from the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the fifteenth century, have fought to retain their identity while necessarily assimilating to the surrounding society. This culture was changed by settlement and residence in non-Spanish areas for over four centuries, a Diaspora in the late nineteenth century, and the Nazi Holocaust. Sephardic settlements in Latin America, the United States, Israel, and elsewhere were the result. Because Judaism is as much a culture as a religion, any move toward assimilation into a non-Jewish culture has historically been seen as a threat to Jewish identity: this is an ongoing crisis in Sephardic life.

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