
	Where results make sense

Topic: List of Iberian Jews

Related Topics

List of Jews by country

List of Jewish Americans

List of West European Jews

List of Oceanian Jews

List of Italian Jews

List of Jews from the Arab World

List of Latin American Jews

List of Caribbean Jews

List of African Jews

List of North European Jews

List of French Jews

List of Canadian Jews

List of East European Jews

List of German Jews

History of the Jews in England

In the News (Thu 3 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Lists of Jews by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cameroon in: List of Jews from Sub-Saharan Africa
		Mozambique in: List of Jews from Sub-Saharan Africa
		Zambia in: List of Jews from Sub-Saharan Africa
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Jews_by_country (285 words)

	List of Iberian Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jews had lived in the Iberian peninsula since the Dark Ages, experiencing a Golden Age under Arab rule.
		Jews were only formally readmitted to the peninsula in the late 19th century.
		Here is a list of prominent Iberian Jews arranged by country of origin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Iberian_Jews (243 words)

	The American Jewish Experience through the Nineteenth Century: Immigration and Acculturation - The Nineteenth Century - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jews still had to fight for their rights on the state level, and they continued to face various forms of prejudice nationwide.
		There were Jews in the North and Jews in the South, Jews who supported slavery and Jews who condemned it, Jews who fought for the Union and Jews who fought for the Confederacy.
		In America a Jew's faith was not registered with the state, as it was in most of Europe, and observance depended upon the individual.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080 /tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/judaism.htm (2562 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Synod of Castilian Jews, 1432 CE
		The fifteenth century may have been a century of crisis for Spanish Jews, but it is important to keep in mind that the Jews did not forsee the expulsion, and that the middle decades of the century were a period of reconstruction and recovery.
		This is the background of the assemby of the Jews of the kingdom of Castile (the largest of the Spanish kingdoms) at Valladolid in 1432.
		No Jew or Jewess shall bring his or her neighbor whether a Jew or Jewess before any judge, ecclesiastic or secular who is not of our faith, although such a judge should decide in accordance with the law of Israel unless it be a matter of payment of.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/1432synod-castile-jews.html (5937 words)

	Our Iberia
		An example of this is when Queen María, wife of Sancho, asked from Jews of Toledo a bid to raise the sum of 20,000 gold maravedis for the naval fleet in the war against the Moors, the amount raised was considerably larger: 82,500 maravedis (Archives of the Cathedral of Toledo).
		Though Jews began to have a freer and more respectable life during his reign, the building hatred spread by Pedro's bastard brothers will eventually plant the seed for a holocaust after Pedro was knifed to death by his bastard brother Henry.
		He charged Jews of Satanical persuasions and that the killings of 1391 was an act of God inspiring the Christian masses to avenge the blood of Christ.
	www.sefarad.org /publication/lm/038/3.html (5353 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Portugal
		Jews were involved in all aspects of the explorations, from financing the sailing fleets to making scientific discoveries in the fields of mathematics, medicine and cartography.
		Approximately 380 Jews were living in Portugal during the outbreak of World War II and an additional 650 Jewish refugees from Central Europe were granted "resident" status.
		"Crypto Jews of Portugal." The Sephardic Jews in Portugal.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Portugal.html (3316 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Legal History
		Jews and Christians in Teruel: The Fuero of Teruel, 1176 CE Excerpts from the Fuero, or urban ordinance.
		Ordinance of the Jews of the Crown of Aragon, 1354 CE This ordinance or takkanah was the product of an increased sense of Jewish vulnerability in the years after the Black Death (1348).
		Ordinances from assembly of the Jews of the kingdom of Castile at Valladolid in 1432.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/sbook-law.html (4132 words)

	Sephardi Jews - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		However, the spread of Jews into Europe is most commonly associated with the Diaspora which ensued from the Roman conquest of Judea, emigration from the land of Israel, into the greater Roman Mediterranean area antedated the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans under Titus.
		The edicts of the Council of Elvira, although early (and perhaps precedence-setting) examples of Church-inspired anti-Semitism, provide evidence of Jews who were integrated enough into the greater community to cause alarm among some: of the Council's 80 canonic decisions, all which pertain to Jews served to maintain a separation between the two communities.
		Assis, Yom Tov, The Jews of Spain: From Settlement to Expulsion, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1988)
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Sephardic_Jews (4788 words)

	The Suppressed EU Report on Antisemitism
		Michel Friedman, vice-chairman of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany, indirectly accused Karsli of being an “anti-Semite,
		In June 2002, 68% of those polled rejected the statement “The Jews are partly responsible for being hated and persecuted”, while 29% confirmed the statement (in 1991 confirmation was 32%).
		On 19 April 2002, Dublin graffiti equating Jews with Nazis and the Star of David with a swastika was found near the main synagogue in Dublin.
	emperors-clothes.com /docs/euredata.htm (7449 words)

	H-ANTISEMITISM OCCASIONAL PAPERS, NO. 1M
		Jews had not been loyal to the ancient Roman Empire, an accusation which was sometimes extended to Christians, who were often confused with Jews in the earliest centuries of this era.
		Jews of Visigothic Spain had aided the Islamic conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711.
		Jews indulged in an infamous ritual murder called the "Blood Libel," in which a Christian child was murdered annually in an unholy religious rite.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~antis/papers/occasional.papers.html (5116 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Jihad in Istanbul by Dr. Walid Phares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		And from Jerba in Tunisia to Casablanca in Morocco, Jews are terminated by slices.
		The Jews targeted in the former capital of the Ottomans were not aliens, nor settlers.
		Attacking the Jews in Istanbul is also a warning to the political establishment in Turkey.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10846 (1725 words)

	African Americans and Jews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was not the material wealth of the Jews which made them so crucial to this emerging South Atlantic economy but rather (as with other ethnic-commercial diasporas such as the Huguenots, the Quakers, the overseas Chinese, Muslims in Africa, etc.) their ability to transfer assets and information among themselves across the entire economic network.
		Jews of Portuguese Brazilian origin played a significant (but by no means dominant) role in the eighteenth century slave trade of Rhode Island, but this sector accounted for only a very tiny portion of the total human exports from Africa.
		However we Jews, even liberal ones, who justifiably insist that the history of the Nazi Holocaust not be denied, can hardly urge African Americans to suppress the record of the slave trade and the involvement of our own ancestors in it.
	jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu /~plarson/smuseum/baj.htm (2447 words)

	Sephardic genealogy at Sephardim.com
		All of the Jews, whether those who left the country with their Jewish religious beliefs intact, and those that were converted are described as being SEPHARDIM or being of SEPHARDIC heritage.
		(28a) List of Portuguese Jews expelled from Buenos Aries, 1603.
		The list is a result of a census of Jewish communities of Spain by the Catholic Church and as found in inquisition records.
	www.sephardim.com (3497 words)

	Judeo-Spanish: Birth, Death and Re-birth
		This covers all Jews from northern Morocco and from the former Ottoman Empire, including their present-day descendants who are dispersed to the four corners of the earth.
		Therefore, it is to those Jews who so "miraculously" preserved their language and culture for more than four centuries, to their slow agony during the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, to their fate and to their brutal death under the steamroller of the Nazi regime, that these pages are dedicated.
		Judy¢ (Jew) designates both the language (the Judeo-Spanish vernacular) and the speaker of Judeo-Spanish (the Sepharad), as is the case with Yiddish (Ger., Jüdisch meaning Jew) for the Ashkenazim.
	www.kahalbraira.org /mendes/judeo_spanish.html (3779 words)

	History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jews were caught in the middle of the struggle.
		Jews were also forbidden to trade, except on a small scale.
		Jews who converted to Catholicism were called conversos and “New Christians.” Being baptized did not win the acceptance of their Christian neighbors.
	www.teachtci.com /essays/MWH/topic03.asp (978 words)

	Smooth Stone: NY Times: Hispanics in Southwest US, learn they're Jews
		When she was growing up in a small town in southern Colorado, an area where her ancestors settled centuries ago when it was on the fringes of the northern frontier of New Spain, Bernadette Gonzalez always thought some of the stories about her family were unusual, if not bizarre.
		They killed Jews in the 20s, Europe killed 6 million Jews in the 30s, and the Arabs, with the help of Hitler and the Mufti of Jerusalem, committed genocide against Jews in the 1940s.
		To all the stalkers, trolls, Jew haters, Jewish self-loathers, and all-around misanthropes who are so riled at the politics of our blog, thank you for encouraging us to continue to rile you even further.
	smoothstone.blogspot.com /2005/11/ny-times-hispanics-in-southwest-us.html (1832 words)

	Special Exhibitions - Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land
		His reply reflected the fact that Jews and Muslims have lived together in Morocco for more than a millennium, and the Jews were residents of the land for seven centuries or more before the coming of the Arabs.
		Together, Muslims and Jews forged a common spiritual culture and an artistic culture that reflects the dominant aesthetics of Islamic art.
		For centuries, Jews lived under Muslim rule as dhimmi, a protected minority with communal self-rule subject to special taxes and restrictions intended to indicate their subservient position.
	www.jewishmuseum.org /home/content/exhibitions/special/morocco/morocco.html (452 words)

	Introduction: Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages
		For, long after the enemy was vanquished, the Jews expelled, and the Inquisition disbanded, the image of the "Moor" remained as the quintessential stranger, an object to be feared.
		He is primarily interested in the processes of cultural differentiation and self-ascription whereby Spaniards began consciously to perceive their ethnic distinctiveness (as Christians, first and foremost, in contradistinction to Muslims).
		Many members of Castro's generation subscribed to this characterization of Spanish modal personality (insecure, inferior) and because they did they were prepared to confirm their suspicions arising from recent social traumas with mythic associations with the medieval past.
	libro.uca.edu /ics/intro.htm (4679 words)

	Bearers of a Common Fate ? The half Jews in Nazi Germany
		Both Raabe and Freytag are considered liberals but their hostile portrayal of Jews is often cited as one of the contributing factors in the "racial" anti-Semitism of the late nineteenth century.
		The proportion of Jews in the population was much lower, and this would depress the proportion of partial Jews in the population.
		Answer: The man is a Jew according to the Nuremberg Laws because of the one grandparent who was of the Jewish religion; this grandparent is assumed to have been a full Jew and this assumption cannot be contested.
	www.wernercohn.com /Paulus.html (17530 words)

	The question of race
		The Jews of Spain were dark-skinned, and it is evident that some of them were, quite frankly, Negro.
		The Jews of medieval Spain, for the most part, coexisted very well with the Muslims, and for them, the sojourn in that nation is remembered as being the second most glorious period in their history, exceeded only by the glory of the reigns of David and Solomon in ancient Israel.
		Since the Jews had actively supported the Moorish conquests, the Christians were not about to take any chances on losing what had taken them 800 years to regain.
	www.ark-of-salvation.org /race.htm (9125 words)

	Jews in An Iberian Frontier Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This book treats the tumultuous history of the Jews in the colonial kingdom of Valencia through focusing on one town, Morvedre.
		Based on archival sources, it explores the Jews' activities as settlers and officials, their role in the new kingdom's economic development, and their rapidly changing relations with the Christian conquerors and the subject Muslims.
		It also considers the controversies surrounding Jewish moneylending and the Jews' embattled position during the rebellions and wars that rocked the kingdom in the fourteenth century.
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=17295 (229 words)

	The Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In comparison to the Iberian Inquisitions little research has been done on the attitude of the Roman and Universal Inquisition to the Jews.
		The present volume deals with the relations between the Catholic Church, Jews and Judaism and the potential of the now accessible sources in the archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome for throwing new light on this intricate relationship.
		It moves on to presentations of archival material from the Congregations of the Roman Inquisition and of the Index by Claus Arnold, Antje Bräcker and John Tedeschi and concludes with sketches of ongoing and prospective research projects by Stephan Wendehorst, Ariella Lang and Hubert Wolf.
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?article_ID=967&ID=17863 (254 words)

	Spain: History
		Alaric II at Vouillé resulted in the loss by the Visigoths of most of Gaul; in the Iberian Peninsula, Belisarius temporarily reconquered (554) S Spain for the Byzantine Empire; however, the Visigoths soon regained S Spain and in 585 also conquered the kingdom of the Suevi in Galicia.
		A major reason for the Christian victory was that Christian Spain was in a stage of dynamic expansion and religious enthusiasm while Moorish Spain, having attained a high degree of civilization and material prosperity, had lost its military vigor and religious zeal.
		The expulsion of the Jews deprived Spain of part of its most useful and active population.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0861231.html (4273 words)

	Texas: Crypto-Jews Return to Judaism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		While the phenomenon is extremely small, it highlights a trend which has increasing influence in Iberia itself, where much of the Spanish aristocracy has Marrano blood.
		Marranos are Spanish and Portuguese crypto-Jews who pretended to convert to Christianity after the White reconquest of the Iberian penninsula from the Muslims, completed in 1492 under the leadership of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
		With the Spanish conquests in the New World, many Marranos settled in the Americas, with a fairly large number in the US Southwest and Mexico, where they and other Jews are feared by Mestizos.
	www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=5867 (290 words)

	Portuguese Jews in Faro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Jews fled the Iberian Peninsula to escape the inquisition at the end of the XV Century.
		Their descendants, traders and Businessmen in Gibraltar and North Africa, were invited back to Portugal by the Marquise de Pombal to help rebuild the economy after the devastating earthquake in 1755.
		He saved the lives of thousands of Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany, by issuing transit visas through Lisbon against the direct orders of his Government.
	www.apol.net /dightonrock/portuguese_jews_in_faro.htm (446 words)

	Armenia and Georgia, Culmen Europae
		According to Chahin's list, these were not reigning kings, but, even if not, they were numbered as members of the dynasty.
		On the other hand, Constantine IV and V are not listed by Runciman in the dynastic tree because they were both usurpers.
		The list and discription of the language families in the Caucasus is mainly from The Atlas of Languages (Facts On File, 1996, pp.50-52).
	www.friesian.com /armenia.htm (4265 words)

	Amazon.com: Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain: Books: Jerrilynn Denise Dodds,Vivian B. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The coexistence or convivencia of Jews, Muslims and Christians on Iberian soil from 711 to 1492 produced a remarkable cross-fertilization of ideas, as revealed by this splendidly illustrated catalog of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City.
		One provocative essayist contends that Arabs and Jews, through exchanges in astronomy, philosophy and mathematics, "introduced a new epistemology to the Latin West." Another contributor traces how Arabic poetry helped to inspire the first Hebrew secular poetry since biblical times.
		The Faith of Abraham's sons: A list by Didaskalex "Eusebius Alexandri...
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807612839?v=glance (736 words)

	The Pick of the Literate - Portuguese History
		In the seventeenth century, descendants of forcibly baptized Jews, or conversos, fled the Iberian Inquisitions to settle in Amsterdam, a city renowned for its commercial ties and religious tolerance.
		On arrival, the conversos lacked clear ethnic or religious identities and had little social organization, yet they formed the nucleus of what became a strongly cohesive community with a highly structured and well-developed sense of its Jewish identity.
		As a new member of the EEC as well as a emerging tourist attraction, Portugal has in recent years experienced great social and economic change.
	www.bakerbooks.net /portuguese.asp (1883 words)

	CORDOBA IN CYBERSPAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As a matter of fact, it is a city found in Andalucia situated by the Guadalquivir River, Southern Spain, that has deep roots into Iberian, Roman, Visigothic, Arabic, and Jewish cultures.
		With the conquest of the city by the Christians, the Catholic King Ferdinand III ordered the construction of a Christian cathedral in side the Mosque, thus maintaining the Arabic construction, and creating a unique piece of art, that remains to today.
		You see, we believe in not touching or changing our history (Some of it is not our best, but it would be worse if we tried to hide it or deny it.
	www.cyberspain.com /color/cordoba.htm (463 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)