Representing Hispano-Jewish and Sephardic material culture in Spain

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Notes

1. Boletín Oficial del Estado (State Gazette), April 11, 1964, 4560 (decree no. 874/1964).

2. In his early American exile, he claims that ‘El judaísmo sefardita no es solo una de las creaciones que han salido del magno molde hispánico, sino, recíprocamente, también una de las matrices que han ido formando la existencia española,’ see Máximo José Kahn, Apocalipsis hispánica (México: Editorial América, 1942), 147.

3. See Jaume Riera i Sans, Els poders pùblics i les sinagogues. Segles xiii–xv (Girona: Call de Girona, 2006), probably the best study on the political background, but also the architecture and interiors of western Mediterranean medieval synagogues.

4. Edward Rothstein, “The Problem with Jewish Museums,” Mosaic (February 1, 2016), at http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2016/02/the-problem-with-jewish-museums/

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Javier Castaño

Javier Castaño is a senior research fellow in Jewish history at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. His research interests include different aspects of the society, the economy, and the culture of the Iberian Jews, and on the processes of religious conversion during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. He is head of the Ginze Sefarad (Jewish Archives of Sefarad) research project. He has been a visiting research or teaching fellow at the EHESS, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, and Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. From 2006 to 2015, he has been Chief-Editor of Sefarad (Journal of Jewish and Sephardic Studies). In 2014, he edited ¿Una Sefarad inventada? Los problemas de interpretación de los restos materiales de los judíos en España (Córdoba: El Almendro).