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Article: Reimagining the Anusim (the Forced Ones) of 15th-Century Spain.
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- November 1, 2000
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In 1944, the Jewish Publication Society of America brought Charles Reznikoff's The Lionhearted to print.(1) Reznikoff's tale, suitably subtitled "A Story about the Jews in Medieval England," opens in 1189 and particularizes the Jewish community not only in Lynn but in many parts of medieval England just before, during, and just after the coronation of Richard the Lionhearted or Richard I (hence, the punning title that, in fact, refers to characters in the tale rather than the king of England).(2) Reznikoff's historical fiction is a marvelous and touching remembrance of the Jewish communities destroyed by a 12th-century massacre of the Jews of England, a massacre that ...
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