The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal: Survival of an Imperiled Culture in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries by Dolores Sloan

Author:Dolores Sloan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2013-10-23T00:00:00+00:00

When the demands of Pope Paul IV resulted in the public burning of twenty-four Portuguese marranos in Ancona in 1555 (left), representatives of the city’s exile community met in Constantinople with Doña Gracia (above), who spearheaded a trading and shipping boycott of the Italian seaport. (Left [drawing of Ancona auto da fé]: Ludwig Lewisohn. The Last Days of Shylock [New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931], facing 88. Reproduced with the cooperation of Alexandra Szyk Bracie and Historicana, Burlingame, California, www.historicana.com. Above [Jewish leaders meeting with Doña Gracia]: Glass painting by Simon Dray, London [1977]. ©Beth Hatefutsoth, Permanent Exhibition, Tel Aviv. Visual Documentation Center, Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv.)

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