Product Description : The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal: Survival of an Imperiled Culture in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Prior to 1492 Jews had flourished on the Iberian Peninsula for hundreds of years Marked by alternating cooperative coexistence and selective persecution alongside Christians and Muslims this remarkable period was a golden age for Iberian Jews with significant and culturally diverse advances in sciences arts and governmentThis work traces the history of the Sephardic Jews from their golden age to their postColumbian diaspora It highlights achievements in science medicine philosophy arts economy and government alongside a few less noble accomplishments in both the land they left behind and in the lands they settled later Several significant Sephardic Jews are profiled in detail and later chapters explore the increasing restrictions on Jews prior to expulsion the divergent fates of two diaspora communities in Brazil and the Ottoman Empire and the enduring legacy of Sephardic history ( it is an used product)