Jewish Historiography and Attitudes to History in the Sixteenth Century

FAIN: FA-11578-76

Yosef H. Yerushalmi
Columbia University (New York, NY 10027-7922)

To complete research toward a projected three volume study of Jewish literature and historiography of the sixteenth century. Grantee is planning in this series a new annotated edition and first English translation of Ibn Verga's Shebet Yehudah, a companion volume of studies on the book in light of its Hispanic and Jewish backgrounds. Series will also provide a comprehensive history of sixteenth-century Jewish historiography and its relation to the messianic, apocalyptic, and mystical currents that arose in the wake of the Spanish expulsion of the Jews in 1492.