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Souls in Dispute Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700 David L. Graizbord "Graizbord has profitably charted new territory, namely, an in-depth examination of 'renegades, ' or those conversos who departed from Christianity and Iberia only to return to both later. . . . Compelling and useful."--Journal of Religion Throughout the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home to a rich cultural mix of Christians, Jews, and Muslims. At the end of the fifteenth century, however, the last Islamic stronghold fell, and Jews were forced either to convert to Christianity...

Through a qualitative analysis and broad historical contextualization of personal interviews, The New Zionists shows how American Jewish "Millennials" who are not religiously orthodox approach Israel and Zionism as galvanizing solutions to the thinning of American Jewish identity, and (re)root themselves through "Israeliness"-an unselfconscious and largely secular expression of national kinship and solidarity, as well as of personal and communal purpose, that American Judaism scarcely provides.