Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Approach

by Margalit Bejarano

The Sephardic population in the Americas is formed by a large number of small groups, divided according to the communities of origin in the Iberian Peninsula, the Middle East, and North Africa, and dispersed among English-, Spanish-, Portuguese-, and French-speaking societies. While the emigration from the Ottoman Empire that began one hundred years ago resulted in the fragmentation of Sephardic communities, their dynamism allowed them to adapt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081563272X
• ISBN13: 9780815632726
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"