The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal - Survival of an Imperiled Culture in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Traces the history of the Sephardic Jews from their golden age to their post - Columbian diaspora. This book profiles several significant Sephardic Jews. It explores the increasing restrictions on Jews prior to expulsion, the divergent fates of two diaspora communities (in Brazil and the Ottoman Empire), and the legacy of Sephardic history.