History of the Jews in Christian Spain, Vol. 1: From the Age of Reconquest to the Fourteenth Century

A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN CHRISTIAN SPAIN VOL. I......Page 2
TITLE PAGE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT PAGE......Page 4
PUBLISHER\'S PREFACE......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 7
Defining Our Subject......Page 11
The Lines of Development in Antiquity......Page 13
The Pharisees......Page 17
The Jews of Spain Under the Romans and the Visigoths......Page 25
Moslem Spain......Page 32
The Jews in Northern Spain Before the Reconquest......Page 49
The Politics of the Christian Princes During the Early Reconquest......Page 56
Intellectual Currents During the Reconquest......Page 69
The Economic and Political Position of the Jews......Page 88
Social and Spiritual Conflicts Within the Communities......Page 100
The Maimunist Controversy......Page 106
The Jews in the Reconquered Andalusian Cities......Page 121
Alfonso X’s Legislation and the Jews......Page 125
Alfonso X and the Jewish Communities......Page 128
Jewish Courtiers and their Administrative Positions......Page 130
Executions and Imprisonments......Page 139
Sancho IV and the Opposition of the Estates......Page 140
The Conquests of James I and the Jews as a Factor in Politics and Colonization......Page 148
Jewish Officials......Page 154
Religious and Legislative Policies and their Effect on the Jews......Page 157
Religious Disputations and their Consequences......Page 160
Pedro III and his Jewish Officials......Page 172
The Religious and Feudal Reaction......Page 181
A Summary of the Period......Page 187
The Cultural Problem......Page 196
Location and Statistics of the Jewish Settlements......Page 199
The Social-Economic Structure......Page 207
Internal Organization and Conflict......Page 222
The Judicial and Executive Powers of the Kahal......Page 241
Cultural Conflicts Within the Community......Page 246
The Mystical View of Israel......Page 253
The Aims of Ethical-Social Reform: R. Jonah Gerondi......Page 260
The Reforms in Toledo in 1281......Page 267
The Social Background and the Religious Aims of the Zohar......Page 271
Pietism as Exemplified in the Ra‘aya Mehemna......Page 280
The Messianic Movement of 1295......Page 287
Ibn Adbet’s Communal and Religious Authority......Page 291
The Reign of Ferdinand IV......Page 316
The Development of the Jewish Community......Page 321
Rabbi Asheer’s Communal Leadership......Page 326
The Jewish Courtiers of Alfonso XI......Page 335
Abner of Bugos and His Campaign Against the Jews......Page 337
Gonzalo Martinez and Plan to Annihilate the Jews......Page 364
The Reform of Alcalá de Henares (1348)......Page 370
King Pedro the Cruel and Don Samuel Halevi......Page 372
The Fate of the Jews in the Civil War......Page 374
The Reign of Henry II......Page 377
The Reign of John I......Page 385
NOTES TO INTRODUCTION......Page 391
NOTES TO CHAPTER I......Page 394
NOTES TO CHAPTER II......Page 403
NOTES TO CHAPTER III......Page 412
NOTES TO CHAPTER IV......Page 414
NOTES TO CHAPTER V......Page 428
NOTES TO CHAPTER VI......Page 443
NOTES TO CHAPTER VII......Page 453
INDEX......Page 463