Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology and India and the Islamic

and India and the Islamic world

and often punished for behavior that put their queerness

The book concludes with a survey of the special place that Aksumite Ethiopia – later Abyssinia – has held in both European and African conceptual worlds as the site of ‘worthy Ethiopia’

all by herself

The volume also includes little-known and previously unpublished essays by Modisane

Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology and India and the IslamicSephardic Jews trace their origins to Spain and Portugal. They enjoyed a renaissance in these lands until their expulsion from Spain in 1492, when they settled in the countries along the Mediterranean, throughout the Ottoman Empire, in the Balkans, and in the lands of North Africa, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, mixing with the Mizrahi, or Oriental, Jews already in these locations. Sephardic Jews have contributed some of the most important Jewish