Author: WEXLER, PAUL
Title: Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews
Description: Albany, New York, State University Press of New York, 1996. 321 pp. good copy. Paperback, plasticized. Wexler challenges the prevailing view that Sephardic Jewry did not have its genesis in Spain, but in North Africa, and that the Sephardic Jews were not descended from the ancient Judaeans, but were primarily the posterity of Berber proselytes. The author detects remnants of this North African Berber and Arab substrate in the language and culture of the Sephardic Jews. He marshals a dazzling array of historic, literary, ethnographic, and--most important--linguistic data in support of his highly original hypotheses. Sephardic Jewish history ISBN: 9780791427965

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