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History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6)

Graetz, Heinrich · Public domain text

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Author
Heinrich Graetz (1817–1891)
Language
English
Subjects
Jews › History
Length
239,042 words · about 16 h 44 min
Sections
41 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (41)
  1. Opening under 1 min
  2. I. CULTIVATION OF THE KABBALA, AND PROSCRIPTION OF SCIENCE under 1 min
  3. Chapter II under 1 min
  4. III. THE AGE OF THE ASHERIDES AND OF GERSONIDES under 1 min
  5. IV. THE BLACK DEATH under 1 min
  6. V. THE AGE OF CHASDAÏ CRESCAS AND ISAAC BEN SHESHET under 1 min
  7. VI. JEWISH APOSTATES AND THE DISPUTATION AT TORTOSA under 1 min
  8. VII. THE HUSSITES. PROGRESS OF JEWISH LITERATURE under 1 min
  9. VIII. CAPISTRANO AND HIS PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS under 1 min
  10. Chapter IX under 1 min
  11. X. THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN about 1 min
  12. XI. EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM SPAIN under 1 min
  13. XII. EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM NAVARRE AND PORTUGAL under 1 min
  14. Chapter XIII about 1 min
  15. XIV. REUCHLIN AND THE TALMUD under 1 min
  16. Chapter XV under 1 min
  17. XVI. STRIVINGS OF EASTERN JEWS FOR UNITY. SUFFERING IN THE WEST about 1 min
  18. XVII. THE JEWS IN TURKEY. DON JOSEPH NASSI under 1 min
  19. XVIII. THE JEWS IN POLAND under 1 min
  20. Chapter XIX under 1 min
  21. XX. THE DUTCH JERUSALEM AND THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR under 1 min
  22. I. CULTIVATION OF THE KABBALA, AND PROSCRIPTION OF SCIENCE about 1 h
  23. Chapter II about 35 min
  24. III. THE AGE OF THE ASHERIDES AND OF GERSONIDES about 35 min
  25. IV. THE BLACK DEATH about 48 min
  26. V. THE AGE OF CHASDAÏ CRESCAS AND ISAAC BEN SHESHET about 56 min
  27. VI. JEWISH APOSTATES AND THE DISPUTATION AT TORTOSA about 55 min
  28. VII. THE HUSSITES. PROGRESS OF JEWISH LITERATURE about 35 min
  29. VIII. CAPISTRANO AND HIS PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS about 48 min
  30. Chapter IX about 30 min
  31. X. THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN about 34 min
  32. XI. EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM SPAIN about 30 min
  33. XII. EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM NAVARRE AND PORTUGAL about 33 min
  34. Chapter XIII about 52 min
  35. XIV. REUCHLIN AND THE TALMUD about 1 h 12 min
  36. Chapter XV about 1 h 10 min
  37. XVI. STRIVINGS OF EASTERN JEWS FOR UNITY. SUFFERING IN THE WEST about 1 h 28 min
  38. XVII. THE JEWS IN TURKEY. DON JOSEPH NASSI about 51 min
  39. XVIII. THE JEWS IN POLAND about 24 min
  40. Chapter XIX about 34 min
  41. XX. THE DUTCH JERUSALEM AND THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR about 1 h 47 min

The opening of Chapter XIII

RESULTS OF THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
GENERAL VIEW.

Widespread Consequences of the Expulsion--The Exiles--Fate
of the Abrabanel Family--Leon Medigo--Isaac Akrish--The
Pre-eminence of Jews of Spanish Origin--The North-African
States: Samuel Alvalensi, Jacob Berab, Simon Duran II--The
Jews of Algiers, Tripoli and Tunis--Abraham Zacuto and Moses
Alashkar--Egypt: Isaac Shalal, David Ibn-Abi Zimra--The
Jews of Cairo--Selim I--Cessation of the Office of Nagid--
Jerusalem--Obadyah di Bertinoro--Safet and Joseph Saragossi
--The Jews of Turkey--Constantinople--Elias Mizrachi:
the Karaites--The Communities of Salonica and Adrianople--
The Jews of Greece--Elias Kapsali--The Jews of Italy and
the Popes: Bonet de Lates--The Ghetto in Venice--Samuel
Abrabanel and Benvenida Abrabanela--Abraham Farissol--The
Jews of Germany and their Sorrows--Expulsion of the Jews from
Various Towns--The Jews of Bohemia--Jacob Polak and his
School--The Jews of Poland page 382.

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