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Lecture

Dr Hilary Pomeroy
The Jews of Muslim Spain: A Golden Age? Part 2

Thursday 25.04.2024

Summary

The urbanisation and Arabisation that Spanish Jews experienced in Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain), helped to establish thriving communities in cities and city-states such as Córdoba, Toledo, Seville and Granada. Their community leaders were court Jews, physicians, rabbis, poets, and often a combination of all of these.

Dr Hilary Pomeroy

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Dr Pomeroy holds a PhD from the department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary University of London and is teaching fellow emerita in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London. She has been an invited speaker at universities and institutions throughout Europe and has published numerous articles on Sephardi culture.