Beyond ‘History and Memory’. Traces of Jewish Historiography in the Middle Ages
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The Commentary on the Song of Songs Attributed to R. Samuel ben Meïr (Rashbam)
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Changes in the Middle East (950-1150) as Illustrated by the Documents of the Cairo Geniza
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The Jewish communities in Portuguese late medieval cities: space and identity
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Muslim Responses to the Sanctity of the Temple Mount: Anti-Jewish and Christian Polemics
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Quia nolunt dimittere credere pro credere, sed credere per intelligere: Ramon Llull and his Jewish Contemporaries
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Portuguese Crypto-Jewish Ballads: A Passagem do Mar Vermelho and A Pedra Mara
Some New Christians managed to escape abroad, founding Jewish communities in Bordeaux, London, Amsterdam, and other cities (Azevedo 359-430). With the union of the Portuguese and Spanish crowns (1580-1640), the number of those who moved to Spain and its American colonies was so great that the word “Portuguese” became practically synonymous with “Jew.”