History of the Jews in Christian Spain, Volume 1

One of the century's great classics of Jewish historiography, A History of the Jews in Christian Spain traces the economic, social, legal, and political life of the Spanish-Jewish community from the eleventh-century reconquest of Iberia from Moslem rule to the expulsion in 1492.

This is a story of heroism and opportunism, humanitarianism and selfishness -- all synthesized in an artistic work of history that has become the definitive work in its field.

Benjamin R. Gampel, in his introdu…