Spanish and Portuguese Jewry:: A Classified Bibliography

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This compilation represents the culmination of Robert Singerman's 20-year project to bring under bibliographic control published material on one of Europe's most important centres of Jewish life and culture. With close to 5,500 citations, it supplements a similar number of sources in Singerman's foundation bibliography on the subject, "The Jews in Spain and Portugal: A Bibliography" (1975). Together, the two bibliographies provide near exhaustive coverage of materials on the Jewish experience in Spain and Portugal from antiquity to 1992, the quincentenary of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. The present work comprises post-1975 publications and also retrospectively incorporates earlier sources not previously documented. Classified into 30 broad areas and hundreds of historical and topical sub-categories and special subjects, including individuals, it gathers from the literature of Jewish studies, Spanish and Portuguese history and literature, ecclesiastical history, social history, and many other fields. Topics of special importance include local Jewish history, Jewish-Christian polemics, and the portrayal of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in literature. Sources on more specific subjects such as Jewish participation in the Spanish Civil War, Jewish physicians, and Jewish translation activity during the Middle Ages are among those documented. While the 1975 bibliography is especially strong in Jewish sources from pre-Holocaust Europe, the present work reflects a preponderance of recent Spanish and Portuguese studies and an important contribution of Israeli scholarship. Book-length works constitute a very small number of contemporary Spanish and Portuguese Judaica; consequently, this bibliography represents analysis of serial literature and of Jewish content in books not specifically - or even apparently - bearing on Judaic matters.

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This work represents an important contribution to Sephardic Jewish scholarship and is a valuable addition to reference collections in academic and research libraries supporting Jewish studies programs. It is also an important resource for temple, synagogue, Jewish community center, and public libraries serving Sephardic Jewish communities.-American Reference Books Annual
While it is for a specialized set of readers, Spanish and Portuguese Jewry is a scrupulous work of bibliography that comes close to being exhaustive within the categories it treats.-Hispania
"While it is for a specialized set of readers, Spanish and Portuguese Jewry is a scrupulous work of bibliography that comes close to being exhaustive within the categories it treats."-Hispania
"This work represents an important contribution to Sephardic Jewish scholarship and is a valuable addition to reference collections in academic and research libraries supporting Jewish studies programs. It is also an important resource for temple, synagogue, Jewish community center, and public libraries serving Sephardic Jewish communities."-American Reference Books Annual

Author Bio

ROBERT SINGERMAN is Bibliographer for Anthropology, Jewish Studies, and Linguistics at The George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville. His previous book-length bibliographies include Jews in Spain and Portugal (1975), Jewish and Hebrew Onomastics (1977), Antisemitic Propaganda (1982), Jewish Serials of the World (Greenwood Press, 1986), and Judaica Americana (Greenwood Press, 1990), and he has contributed articles to American Jewish History, Jewish Book Annual, Journal of Church and State, and other periodicals. He is presently developing a classified bibliography on Amerindian linguistics.