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| | H-Net Review: Elaine R. Miller on The Golden Age of Aragonese Jewry: Community and Society in the ... |
 | | Assis is aware that the documents at his disposal do not discuss the true daily life "of ordinary and well-behaved Jews, simple and hard-working craftsmen, loving husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, friends and neighbors"; rather, we learn "of thieves, rapists, prostitutes, men of violence, and the like" (p. |
 | | He notes both similarities and differences when he writes, "[d]espite their political, social, and economic differences, and even some religious variations, the Jews of the Hispanic kingdoms of Castile and Leon, Navarre and Portugal, Aragon and Catalonia were united by their common broad cultural and religious Judeo-Arabic heritage, which we may conveniently call Sephardi" (p. |
 | | Although he also points out that the Aragonese were much more influenced than the Castilians by the Ashkenazi Jews of France and Germany, it would appear that the Jews identified more strongly as Jews than as members of a particular region or kingdom. |
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