Sefarad, Sefarad : la España judía
José Luis Lacave (Author), Manel Armengol (Photographer), Francisco Ontañón (Photographer)
An album of 215 photographs of Jewish sites and artefacts from Spain. The text, in Spanish (p. 19-55) and English (p. 177-228), gives a short account of the history of the Jews in Spain up to modern times. Notes that Jews suffered persecutions under the Visigothic kingdom. After the Visigoth king Recared converted to Christianity in 586, he imposed the first anti-Jewish legislation, while Sisebuto ordered forced conversions in 613. During the Muslim period the Jews were a tolerated minority. From 1240 onward, propaganda against Jews increased in Christian Spain. During the 14th century there was a rise in popular hatred of the Jews along with hostility from the Church, the nobility, and the municipalities. Describes the pogroms of 1391 in each town, Converso society, and the tension between Old and New Christians, and traces the reasons for the expulsion. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
Print Book, Spanish, 1987
Comisión Quinto Centenario, Grupo de Trabajo Sefarad 92 ; Lunwerg Editores, [Madrid], Barcelona, 1987