Table of Contents
Introduction; Chapter 1 Jewish Participation in Castilian Fairs: The Example of Medina del Campo in the Fifteenth Century, María Fuencisla, García Casar; Chapter 2 Nostalgia for the Past (and for the Future?) among Castilian Judeoconversos, Carlos Carrete Parrondo; Chapter 3 The Annunciation to Esther: Felipe Godínez' Dramatic Vision, Sara Turel; Chapter 4 Mudéjares and Repobladores in the Kingdom of Granada (1485–1501), Miguel-Angel Ladero Quesada; Chapter 5 Negotiations between the Georgian and Spanish Kings at the End of the Fifteenth Century, Elguja Khintibidze; Chapter 6 The Almogataces: A Historical Perspective, Felipe Maíllo Salgado; Chapter 7 Autobiographical Elements in the Writings of Kabbalists from the Generation of the Expulsion, Michal Oron; Chapter 8 Sephardic Settlements in Sixteenth-Century Italy: A Historical and Geographical Survey, Renata Segre; Chapter 9 A Tale of Three Cities and their Raison d'Etat: Ancona, Venice, Livorno, and the Competition for Jewish Merchants in the Sixteenth Century, Benjamin Ravid; Chapter 10 Venice between Jerusalem, Byzantium, and Divine Retribution: The Origins of the Ghetto, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan; Chapter 11 Owners, Houses, Functions: New Research on the Origins of the Venetian Ghetto, Ennio Concina; Chapter 12 The Role of Ragusan Jews in the History of the Mediterranean Countries, Ivana Burdelez; Chapter 13 Between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean: Sephardic Music after the Expulsion from Spain and Portugal, Edwin Seroussi; Chapter 14 The Social and Communal Organization of the Jewish Communities in Epirus during the Sixteenth Century, Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky; Chapter 15 The Rise and Fall of Salonica Woollens, 1500–1650: Technology Transfer and Western Competition, Benjamin Braude; Chapter 16 Spanish Ladies from the Cairo Geniza, Joel L. Kraemer;