Spanish and Portuguese Jewry:: A Classified Bibliography

by Robert Singerman

Overview

This massive compilation represents the culmination of Robert Singerman's almost single-handed twenty-year project to bring under bibliographic control published material on one of Europe's most important centers of Jewish life and culture. With close to 5,500 citations, it supplements a similar number of sources in Singerman's foundation bibliography on the subject, The Jews in Spain and Portugal: A Bibliography (1975). Together, the two bibliographies provide near-exhaustive coverage of materials on the Jewish experience in Spain and Portugal from antiquity to 1992, the quincentenary of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. The present work comprises post-1975 publications and also retrospectively incorporates earlier sources not previously documented.

Classified into thirty broad areas and hundreds of historical and topical sub-categories and special subjects, including numerous works on individuals, it culls from the literature of Jewish studies, Spanish and Portuguese history and literature, ecclesiastical history, social history, and many other fields. Topics of special importance include local Jewish history, Jewish-Christian polemics, and the portrayal of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in literature. Fascinating sources on more specific subjects such as Jewish participation in the Spanish Civil War, Jewish physicians, and Columbus' alleged Jewish ancestry, Jewish translation activity during the Middle Ages are among those documented. While the 1975 bibliography is especially strong in Jewish sources from pre-Holocaust Europe, the present work reflects a preponderance of recent Spanish and Portuguese studies and the important contribution of Israeli scholarship. This bibliography represents tireless analysis of serial literature and of Jewish content in books not specifically—or even apparently—bearing on Judaic matters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313257520
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/16/1993
Series:	Bibliographies and Indexes in World History , #30
Pages:	740
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.56(d)

About the Author

ROBERT SINGERMAN is Bibliographer for Anthropology, Jewish Studies, and Linguistics at The George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville. His previous book-length bibliographies include Jews in Spain and Portugal (1975), Jewish and Hebrew Onomastics (1977), Antisemitic Propaganda (1982), Jewish Serials of the World (Greenwood Press, 1986), and Judaica Americana (Greenwood Press, 1990), and he has contributed articles to American Jewish History, Jewish Book Annual, Journal of Church and State, and other periodicals. He is presently developing a classified bibliography on Amerindian linguistics.

Table of Contents

Spain

Bibliography

Manuscripts

General History: Books and Articles in Books

General History: Periodical Literature

Local History

Sefarad/Aspamia

Early Community

Visigoth Period

Arab Period

Riots of 1391

La Guardia Blood Accusation Case

Expulsion of 1492

Christopher Columbus and Jewish Participation in the Voyages of Discovery

Conversos

Limpieza de Sangre (Blood Purity)

Jewish-Christian Controversy

Biography

Spanish Jews in Literature

Description and Travel

Nineteenth Century

Twentieth Century

Portugal

Bibliography

Manuscripts

General History

Local History: Periodical Literature

Jewish Participation in the Voyages of Discovery

Jewish-Christian Controversy

Biography

Special Subjects

Portuguese Jews in Literature

Nineteenth Century

Twentieth Century

Appendix

Index

Editorial Reviews

With 5,446 citations, this massive compilation supplements Singerman's similarly massive foundation bibliography on the subject, The Jews in Spain and Portugal (1975). Together, the two bibliographies provide near-exhaustive coverage of materials on the Jewish experience in Spain and Portugal from antiquity to 1992, the quincentenary of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. The present work comprises post-1975 publications as well as earlier sources not previously documented. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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