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Remembering Sepharad: Jewish
Culture in Medieval Text by Isidor G. Bango |
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In recent years,
history, overly concerned to satisfy the interests of today's society, has
attempted to reinterpret the concept of Sepharad. This endeavor has given
rise to the idea that Sepharad does not denote |
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Sepharad should be regarded as
the Hebrew word for Remembering Sepharad sets out to paint a picture of the Not only did Jewish culture suffer the same vicissitudes as
Spanish culture during the fifteen hundred years of Jewish presence in This book undertakes to
place on record both the light and the shadows, knowledge of which could be
conducive to greater understanding and tolerance of the attitudes of each
party. Obviously, when we look back at the past, we must interpret it in accordance
with the norms of the time. No society - not even the hypocritical society in
which we live today - can stand up to the moral judgment of coming centuries. From the Introduction |