Contents

• Director’s Preface / Adele Seeff
• Introduction / Bernard Dov Cooperman
• The Portrayal of the Jew in Alfonso the Learned’s Cantigas de Santa Maria / Dwayne E. Carpenter
• Hispano-Jewish Views of Christendom and Islam / Bernard Septimus
• The Economic Life of the Jews of Murviedro in the Fifteenth Century / Mark D. Meyerson
• Does Medieval Navarrese Jewry Salvage Our Notion of Convivencia? / Benjamin R. Gampel
• Poetry in Two Languages: The Kharja and Its Muwassak / Isaac Benasu
• Widows, Artisans, and the Issues of Life: Hispano-Jewish Bourgeois Ideology / Eleazar Gutwirth
• The Impact of Christianity on Late Iberian Jewish Philosophy / Daniel J. Lasker
• Human Felicity - Fifteenth-Century Sephardic Perspectives on Happiness / Hava Tirosh-Rothschild
• Implementation of Pure-Blood Statutes in Sixteenth-Century Toledo / Linda Martz
• Judaizers and Prayer in Sixteenth-Century Alcazar / Renee Levine Melammed
• Portuguese Conversos in Ancona: Jewish Political Activity in Early Modern Italy / Bernard Dov Cooperman
• The Importance of Hispanicity in Jewish Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam / Henry Mechoulan