Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora

by Julia R. Lieberman, Hannah Davidson, Tirsah Levie Bernfeld

This collection of essays examines an important and under-studied topic in early modern Jewish social history"--the family life of Sephardi Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire as well as in communities in Western Europe. At the height of its power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire spanned three continents, controlling much of southeastern Europe, western Asia, and North Africa. Thousands of Jewish families that had been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584659572
• ISBN13: 9781584659570
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"