Jonathan Ray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Ray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ray |
| SIGNATURE | RAY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1009-9684 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe
The reconquista and the Jews
This article discusses the meaning of Las Navas de Tolosa, and of the broader political and cultural changes that it represents, for the history of Iberian Jewry. It suggests that the fundamental structure of Hispano-Jewish life changed relatively little as the Jews moved from Muslim to Christian rule over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Rather, it was the increased contacts between the Arabised Jews of Andalusi heritage and t…
Between the straits
The political and ideological clashes between Muslim and Christian forces that are often referred to as the reconquista represent one of the central themes in the historiography on medieval Iberia. However, historians have had difficulty locating the peninsula's Jewish communities within this narrative. As a result, studies of Christian expansion in the thirteenth century often present Iberian Jews as marginal figures or hapless victims of warfar…
The Jew in the Text
This paper will explore the viability and limits of using non-Jewish charters for the reconstruction of medieval Jewish history. While the settlement charters have long been recognized as important sources for institutional history, their value to the understanding of the Jewish community has yet to be fully explored. Analysis of these documents has tradition-ally been limited to determining the level of royal protection of Jewish rights or the n…
The Ways of Jewish Martyrdom
Simha Goldin offers here an extended meditation on the causes and meaning of the Jewish uses of martyrdom in medieval Europe. Though the ostensible focus of the book is on the tragic events of 1096, when scores of European Jews chose to kill themselves rather than die or accept conversion at the hands of Christian crusaders, Goldin also addresses the larger issue of the relationship between history, memory and piety. At the heart of the phenomeno…
Images of the Jewish community in medieval Iberia
For medieval Jewish intellectuals, the term “Sephardi” denoted more than just a geographic association. It was meant to assert their membership in an elite cultural community distinguished from the rest of the Jewish world. Contrary to this notion of an identifiable and cohesive Sephardi society presented by medieval rabbinic literature, recent studies have yielded a competing image of the organization and boundaries of the Hispano‐Jewish communi…
Iberian Jewry between West and East
Research Article| January 01 2009 Iberian Jewry between West and East: Jewish Settlement in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean Jonathan Ray Jonathan Ray Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mediterranean Studies (2009) 18 (1): 44–65. https://doi.org/10.2307/41163962 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan Ray; Iberian Jewry between West and East: Jewish Settlement in the Sixteenth-C…
Atlantic Diasporas
Richard L. Kagan and Philip D. Morgan, eds. Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500–1800. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xviii+308 pp. index. 30 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–8018–9034–5 (cl), 978–0–8018–9035–2 (pbk). - Volume 62 Issue 3
From Muslim to Christian Granada
In 1492, Granada, the last independent Muslim city on the Iberian Peninsula, fell to the Catholic forces of Ferdinand and Isabella. A century later, in 1595, treasure hunters unearthed some curious lead tablets inscribed in Arabic. The tablets documented the evangelization of Granada in the first century A.D. by St. Cecilio, the city's first bishop. Granadinos greeted these curious documents, known as the plomos, and the human remains accompanyin…
A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Mark D. Meyerson. A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2004. xx + 272 pp. index. illus. map. gloss. bibl.$37.95. ISBN: 0-691-11749-7. - Volume 60 Issue 3
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution:Reassessing Our Approach to Medieval Convivencia Jonathan Ray (bio) In 1992, the quincentennial marking the expulsion of the Jews from Spain brought with it a flurry of studies on medieval Jewish, or Sephardic, civilization. In the succeeding dozen years, Spain has become an increasingly "hot" subject for medievalists and Judaicists alike, and new courses on the diverse cultural legacy of the Iberian Peninsula hav…
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution:Reassessing Our Approach to Medieval Convivencia Jonathan Ray (bio) In 1992, the quincentennial marking the expulsion of the Jews from Spain brought with it a flurry of studies on medieval Jewish, or Sephardic, civilization. In the succeeding dozen years, Spain has become an increasingly "hot" subject for medievalists and Judaicists alike, and new courses on the diverse cultural legacy of the Iberian Peninsula hav…
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution:Reassessing Our Approach to Medieval Convivencia Jonathan Ray (bio) In 1992, the quincentennial marking the expulsion of the Jews from Spain brought with it a flurry of studies on medieval Jewish, or Sephardic, civilization. In the succeeding dozen years, Spain has become an increasingly "hot" subject for medievalists and Judaicists alike, and new courses on the diverse cultural legacy of the Iberian Peninsula hav…
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution:Reassessing Our Approach to Medieval Convivencia Jonathan Ray (bio) In 1992, the quincentennial marking the expulsion of the Jews from Spain brought with it a flurry of studies on medieval Jewish, or Sephardic, civilization. In the succeeding dozen years, Spain has become an increasingly "hot" subject for medievalists and Judaicists alike, and new courses on the diverse cultural legacy of the Iberian Peninsula hav…
The Jew in the Text
This paper will explore the viability and limits of using non-Jewish charters for the reconstruction of medieval Jewish history. While the settlement charters have long been recognized as important sources for institutional history, their value to the understanding of the Jewish community has yet to be fully explored. Analysis of these documents has tradition-ally been limited to determining the level of royal protection of Jewish rights or the n…
Images of the Jewish community in medieval Iberia
For medieval Jewish intellectuals, the term “Sephardi” denoted more than just a geographic association. It was meant to assert their membership in an elite cultural community distinguished from the rest of the Jewish world. Contrary to this notion of an identifiable and cohesive Sephardi society presented by medieval rabbinic literature, recent studies have yielded a competing image of the organization and boundaries of the Hispano‐Jewish communi…
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution:Reassessing Our Approach to Medieval Convivencia Jonathan Ray (bio) In 1992, the quincentennial marking the expulsion of the Jews from Spain brought with it a flurry of studies on medieval Jewish, or Sephardic, civilization. In the succeeding dozen years, Spain has become an increasingly "hot" subject for medievalists and Judaicists alike, and new courses on the diverse cultural legacy of the Iberian Peninsula hav…
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution:Reassessing Our Approach to Medieval Convivencia Jonathan Ray (bio) In 1992, the quincentennial marking the expulsion of the Jews from Spain brought with it a flurry of studies on medieval Jewish, or Sephardic, civilization. In the succeeding dozen years, Spain has become an increasingly "hot" subject for medievalists and Judaicists alike, and new courses on the diverse cultural legacy of the Iberian Peninsula hav…
A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Mark D. Meyerson. A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2004. xx + 272 pp. index. illus. map. gloss. bibl.$37.95. ISBN: 0-691-11749-7. - Volume 60 Issue 3
From Muslim to Christian Granada
In 1492, Granada, the last independent Muslim city on the Iberian Peninsula, fell to the Catholic forces of Ferdinand and Isabella. A century later, in 1595, treasure hunters unearthed some curious lead tablets inscribed in Arabic. The tablets documented the evangelization of Granada in the first century A.D. by St. Cecilio, the city's first bishop. Granadinos greeted these curious documents, known as the plomos, and the human remains accompanyin…
Images of the Jewish community in medieval Iberia
For medieval Jewish intellectuals, the term “Sephardi” denoted more than just a geographic association. It was meant to assert their membership in an elite cultural community distinguished from the rest of the Jewish world. Contrary to this notion of an identifiable and cohesive Sephardi society presented by medieval rabbinic literature, recent studies have yielded a competing image of the organization and boundaries of the Hispano‐Jewish communi…
Iberian Jewry between West and East
Research Article| January 01 2009 Iberian Jewry between West and East: Jewish Settlement in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean Jonathan Ray Jonathan Ray Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mediterranean Studies (2009) 18 (1): 44–65. https://doi.org/10.2307/41163962 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan Ray; Iberian Jewry between West and East: Jewish Settlement in the Sixteenth-C…
Atlantic Diasporas
Richard L. Kagan and Philip D. Morgan, eds. Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500–1800. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xviii+308 pp. index. 30 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–8018–9034–5 (cl), 978–0–8018–9035–2 (pbk). - Volume 62 Issue 3
The Jew in the Text
This paper will explore the viability and limits of using non-Jewish charters for the reconstruction of medieval Jewish history. While the settlement charters have long been recognized as important sources for institutional history, their value to the understanding of the Jewish community has yet to be fully explored. Analysis of these documents has tradition-ally been limited to determining the level of royal protection of Jewish rights or the n…
The Ways of Jewish Martyrdom
Simha Goldin offers here an extended meditation on the causes and meaning of the Jewish uses of martyrdom in medieval Europe. Though the ostensible focus of the book is on the tragic events of 1096, when scores of European Jews chose to kill themselves rather than die or accept conversion at the hands of Christian crusaders, Goldin also addresses the larger issue of the relationship between history, memory and piety. At the heart of the phenomeno…
Between the straits
The political and ideological clashes between Muslim and Christian forces that are often referred to as the reconquista represent one of the central themes in the historiography on medieval Iberia. However, historians have had difficulty locating the peninsula's Jewish communities within this narrative. As a result, studies of Christian expansion in the thirteenth century often present Iberian Jews as marginal figures or hapless victims of warfar…
The reconquista and the Jews
This article discusses the meaning of Las Navas de Tolosa, and of the broader political and cultural changes that it represents, for the history of Iberian Jewry. It suggests that the fundamental structure of Hispano-Jewish life changed relatively little as the Jews moved from Muslim to Christian rule over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Rather, it was the increased contacts between the Arabised Jews of Andalusi heritage and t…
Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe
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