A playlist from The Jewish Story
Golden Age to Expulsion: The Jews of Spain
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The Origins of Spain
July 30, 2018 · 35 min · Episode page →
Spanish Jewry viewed itself as the nobility of the Jewish people, whose roots were in the legendary past. This episode traces history of the community from the fall...
About this playlist
The full arc of Sefarad: its legendary origins, Yehuda HaLevi and the Rambam, the Zohar, the riots of 1391, the conversos, and the expulsion of 1492.
Where this sits in the story
900–1497 · 3 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
More in 2,500 years, in order
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