Isbn: 9781845194550 - lost world of rhodes: greeks, italians, jews & turks between tradition & modernity: greeks, italians, jews and turks between tradition and modernity (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 256.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. 2013. Paperback. Focuses on the Sephardi community - Spanish-speaking Jews who arrived in Rhodes sometime after the Spanish expulsion edict of 1492 and who remained the largest single group within the old city walls until Italy adopted German racial legislation in 1938. Num Pages: 224 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DVG; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 257 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Four peoples, each with its own culture, language and faith, shared a small Mediterranean town and experienced, each in its own way, the upheavals of war, modernity, emigration and occupation. With the German takeover in 1943, the Holocaust in 1944 and the beginning of Greek rule in 1947, this multiethnic world perished forever. At the centre of this book stands the Sephardi community - Spanish-speaking Jews who arrived in Rhodes sometime after the Spanish expulsion edict of 1492 and who remained the largest single group within the old city walls until Italy adopted German racial legislation in 1938. When sultan Abdulhamit II ascended to the Ottoman throne in 1876, the Jews of Rhodes were among his most loyal and traditional, not to say hidebound, subjects. But within the course of a few decades, this bastion of piety and rabbinical tradition was thoroughly transformed by French rationalism, Italian secularism and the pressures of economic globalization. Many unlikely characters come.…