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The book consists of 10 articles. Each article deals with one of the topics related to the Sephardic Jews who lived for centuries on the Iberian Peninsula. They were banished in 1492 from their homeland Spain, and five years later from Portugal and brought along with them their languages, culture, customs, traditional Sephardic diet, poems...
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