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{en} Serena Di Nepi. Surviving the ghetto: toward a social history of the Jewish community in 16th-century Rome, tr. Paul M. Rosenberg. Leiden: Brill, 2021 <2013>.

Abstract

"The expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and the subsequent expulsion from Portugal just four years later mark what is traditionally viewed as a watershed moment in Jewish history. Ferdinand and Isabella's strategy of aggressive evangelization -- conversion or expulsion -- had countless consequences from many points of view. The resulting wave of refugees transformed the geography of the Jewish presence in the Mediterranean basin as well as in central and southern Europe"--Publisher description.