The Jews in Sicily, Volume 18 Under the Rule of Aragon and Spain

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18654-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 618 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1268 g

Reihe: Studia Post Biblica / The Jews in Sicily

This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Sicily is the eighteenth volume of the two series and concludes them. It is a monograph describing the last centuries of the Jewish presence on the island, under the rule of Aragon and Spain and a sequel to the Introduction at the beginning of volume one. It is based on the documents contained in vols 2-17 and illustrates the political, legal, economic, social and religious history of the Jewish minority and its relations with the Christian majority.
The records show that the Jews in Sicily were citizens and suffered from relatively few disabilities. This was true in particular in the economic sphere. No discriminatory legislation forced them into moneylending and trade in old clothes. They engaged in agriculture and industry, trade and commerce, including international trade and shipping, and in most professions, which in turn enhanced their social status. There was as an unusually large number of craftsmen and physicians among them. The majority, however, were labourers, on the land and in town. In the fifteenth century the Jewish population reached 25,000 or thereabouts. All this came to a sudden end with the expulsion order issued by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. Some 80% of the Jews went into exile, while the remainder converted to Catholicism, only to be caught in the net of the Spanish inquisition.
This volume is provided with addenda and corrigenda, additional bibliography and indexes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simonsohn, Shlomo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Bibliography: Additions
Chapter One: Sicily from Peter III to the Catholic Monarchs
Chapter Two: Between Scylla and Charybdis
Chapter Three: The King’s Jews
Chapter Four: Taxation and Imposts
Chapter Five: Jewish Settlements
Chapter Six: Migrations to and from Sicily
Chapter Seven: Demography
Chapter Eight: The Jews and the Law
Chapter Nine: Slay them not Lest my People Forget
Chapter Ten: The Jewish Community
Chapter Eleven: Education and Culture
Chapter Twelve: The Economy
Chapter Thirteen: The Individual and the Family
Chapter Fourteen: The Expulsion
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Shlomo Simonsohn is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. He is a former rector of the university and former chairman of the Rectors and Presidents Conference of Israel. He has published extensively on the history of the Jews in Italy, the Papal See and the Jews, and cognate subjects.