A Historian in Exile: Solomon Ibn Verga, "shevet Yehudah," and the Jewish-Christian Encounter by Jeremy Cohen

A Historian in Exile: Solomon Ibn Verga, "shevet Yehudah," and the Jewish-Christian Encounter

Jewish Culture and Contexts

Jeremy Cohen

256 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Solomon ibn Verga was one of the victims of the decrees expelling the Jews from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s, and his Shevet Yehudah (The Scepter of Judah, ca. 1520) numbered among the most popular Hebrew books of the sixteenth century. Its tit...

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