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Book SynopsisIn A Historian in Exile, Jeremy Cohen shows how Solomon ibn Verga's Shevet Yehudah bridges the divide between the medieval and early modern periods, reflecting a contemporary consciousness that a new order had begun to replace the old.
Trade Review"
A Historian in Exile is that rare thing, a book by a great historian about a great historian. Solomon ibn Verga is today an obscure figure, but in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this Spanish exile's work
The Scepter of Judah was the historical meditation par excellence upon the Jewish condition in the Diaspora. Jeremy Cohen restores to us the history and its author, both of whom seem to have as much to say to us today as they have to so many generations in the past." * David Nirenberg, University of Chicago *
"This fine book is a fascinating and learned study of the
Shevet Yehudah, Solomon ibn Verga's rethinking of the history of the Jews in the wake of the great forced conversions and the massive expulsions from Spain and Portugal in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and of the continuing Christian hostility towards Jews. This is the one book that both Hebraists and non-Hebraists will need to have at hand when reading ibn Verga's work." * Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania *
"A fresh reading and compelling interpretation of
Shevet Yehudah that is unprecedented in its profoundness and intellectual depth." * Martin Jacobs, Washington University in St. Louis *
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Religious Debate and Disputation
Chapter 2. Tortosa
Chapter 3. Talmud and Talmudists
Chapter 4. Anti-Jewish Libels
Chapter 5. Martyrs and Martyrdom
Chapter 6. Conversos and Conversion
Chapter 7. The Author and His Work: Purpose and Structure
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
