Proceedings of the Twelfth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, 24-26 June, 2001

Download or read book Proceedings of the Twelfth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, 24-26 June, 2001 written by Hilary Pomeroy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains eighteen papers, fully accompanied by notes, bibliography, and an index, delivered at the twelfth British Judeo-Spanish Studies Conference, held in London in the summer of 2001. It covers a wide range of current research by scholars in the United States, Israel, Canada, Brazil, Greece and Spain into the history and contemporary use of the Judeo-Spanish language, into theatre, poetry and other literature produced in pre-Expulsion Spain, by conversos returning to Judaism in the 17th and 18th centuries in London and Amsterdam and in the major centres of Sephardi Jews in Greece and Turkey up to the present time, as well as into recent Judeo-Spanish history.