Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities. This item is unavailable.Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities

The Western Sephardic communities came into being as a result of confessional migration. However, in contrast to the other European confessional communities, the Sephardic Jews in Western Europe came to Judaism after a separation of generations from the religion of their ancestors. The contributions in this volume detail those transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic communities.

Yosef Kaplan is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published many studies on the Western Sephardic Jews, including An Alternative Path to Modernity (Brill, 2000). His most recent publication is Early Modern Ethnic and Religious Communities in Exile (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017).