He was the first person to introduce Arabic meter into Hebrew-language poetry.
Who is Dunash ben Labrat?
100
This empire was most receptive to Sephardic migration after 1492.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
100
This is the year the Jews were expelled from Spain.
What is 1492?
100
This is a Spanish term referring to Jews who became Christians.
What is "converso"?
100
These documents were written by rabbis to adjudicate questions posed by Jewish communities.
What are the responsa?
200
This man was a top Jewish politician in Al-Andalus, a soldier, a grammarian, and a poet.
Who is Samuel ibn Naghrela (or Shmuel Ha-Nagid)?
200
This city in Europe (and former colony of Spain) was an essential hub of Sephardic intellectual and economic life in the Early Modern period.
What is Amsterdam?
200
Pogroms in this year initiated the "converso problem."
What is 1391?
200
This system attempted to remove heresy from the Catholic Church.
What is the Inquisition?
200
This language was widely used by the Sephardim in the post-Expulsion diaspora.
What is Ladino (or Judeo-Spanish)?
300
This Portuguese Jew was not only a prolific writer, but he also established the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam in 1626.
Who is Menasseh ben Israel?
300
This peninsula was an essential meeting ground for Ashkenazim, Italkim, Sephardim, and Catholics in the post-Expulsion era.
What is Italy?
300
In this year, the Portuguese Jews were forcibly converted.
What is 1497?
300
This public debate was meant to establish the theological superiority of Christianity over Judaism (or Islam).
What are the disputations?
300
These books were written to give the Sephardim access to Biblical and Talmudic texts when they no longer knew Hebrew.
What is the Me'am Lo'ez?
400
This influential and rich converso established an "underground railroad" for conversos to escape from Spain and financially supported Jewish activity in Venice and Ferrara.
Who is Doña Gracia Mendes?
400
This city saw a forced mass conversion of all Jews in 1497.
What is Lisbon?
400
Pope Sixtus IV authorized the Spanish Inquisition in this year.
What is 1478?
400
This Spanish term expresses how Spaniards legally differentiated between Old and New Christians.
What is la pureza de sangre (or la limpieza de sangre)?
400
This membership-based group gave dowries and also served as a status symbol for Sephardi Jews in Amsterdam.
What is the Santa Companhia de Dotar Orphas e Donzelas?
500
This man is the unwitting founder of the Dönmeh sect within Islam.
Who is Sabbetai Zvi?
500
This Spanish territory, which includes present-day Mexico and the western United States, had an especially active Inquisitional court system.
What is el Virreinato de Nueva España?
500
This year of Muslim conquest ended Visigoth rule in the Iberian Peninsula.
What is 711?
500
This Hebrew term describes a woman who is unable to divorce and remarry because she does not know the fate of her husband.
What is agunah?
500
In "The Unrepentant Adulterer", the cantor's brother says that so-and-so is "performing the actions of Zimri and demanding the reward of Pinhas." This book of the Bible describes the drama of these two figures.