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Contributors hannah davidson received her doctorate in Jewish History from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She did post-doctoral research under the auspices of the Hispania Judaica Research Project, The Hebrew University, “The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain and its Aftermath in the Life of the Refugees and their Children.” Dr. Davidson teaches at the Lander Institute in Jerusalem. cristina galasso is a historian and independent scholar who lives in Livorno, Italy. She has published articles on gender and the Sephardi family and she is the author of Alle origini di una communità: Ebree ed ebrei a Livorno nel Seicento (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2002). david graizbord, a historian, is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580–1700 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). His current research examines the historical phenomenology of anti-Jewish sentiment among Jewish-identified individuals. As an independent scholar tirtsah levie bernfeld resides in Amsterdam. She specializes in European Jewish History of the early modern period, concentrating in particular on social aspects of the Sephardi community of early modern Amsterdam. Forthcoming is her book Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews of Early Modern Amsterdam (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization). ruth lamdan, Ph.D. (1992), has taught for many years in the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, and is currently a research member in the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center in the same university. Her main fields of teaching and research are Jewish society after the Expulsion from Spain in 1492 and women and family in early modern Jewish society. julia r. lieberman is Professor of Spanish and International Studies at Saint Louis University. She has edited and co-authored Los estudios sefardíes para estudiantes de espa ñol (Pegasus Press, 2008). ...

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