Crisis and Creativity in the Sephardic World, 1391-1648

Exile And Expulsion In Jewish History / Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi -- Secular Hebrew Poetry In Fifteenth-century Spain / Raymond P. Scheindlin -- 1492: A House Divided / Seymour Feldman -- On Converso And Marrano Ethnicity / Thomas F. Glick -- Order Of The Expulsion From Spain: Antecedents, Causes, And Textual Analysis / Haim Beinart -- Expulsion Or Integration? The Portuguese Jewish Problem / Maria José Pimenta Ferro Tavares -- The Exiles Of 1492 In The Kingdom Of Navarre: A Biographical Perspective / Benjamin R. Gampel -- The Self-definition Of The Sephardic Jews Of Western Europe And Their Relation To The Alien And The Stranger / Yosef Kaplan -- Prototypes Of Leadership In A Sephardic Community: Smyrna In The Seventeenth Century / Jacob Barnai -- Sephardic Refugees In Ferrara: Two Notable Families / Renata Segre -- Encounters Between Spanish And Italian Kabbalists In The Generation Of The Expulsion / Moshe Idel -- The Ultimate End Of Human Life In Postexpulsion Philosophic Literature / Hava Tirosh-samuelson -- Hebrew Manuscripts And Printed Books Among The Sephardim Before And After The Expulsion / Menahem Schmelzer -- A Converso Best-seller: Celestina And Her Foreign Offspring / Dwayne E. Carpenter -- Sephardic Ceremonial Art: Continuity In The Diaspora / Vivian B. Mann. Edited By Benjamin R. Gampel. Papers Presented At A Conference Held In Nov., 1992. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.