Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and Its Jewish Diasporas

by Ruth Davis

For nearly eight centuries -- from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the final expulsion of the Jews in 1492 -- Muslims, Jews and Christians shared a common Andalusian culture under alternating Muslim and Christian rule. Following their expulsion, the Spanish and Arabic- speaking Jews joined pre-existing diasporic communities and established new ones across the Mediterranean and beyond. In the twentieth century, radical social and political upheavals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810881756
• ISBN13: 9780810881754
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"