Glossary

Dowry

A transfer of property or money from a bride’s parents to the husband upon marriage. In cultures where women do

Sephardic Jews who, after their 1492 expulsion from Iberia, moved into the Eastern Mediterranean, namely into areas controlled by the

The Great Depression was the most severe economic crisis in modern times, lasting a decade between 1929 and 1939. Following

El Noticiero, a Spanish language Jewish newspaper in Mexico. Several Jewish newspapers from Latin America have been digitized and are

The right of voting in public elections.

The act of freeing someone from slavery, or other legal, social, or political constraints.

a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a

A person who has, through some means or another, become enslaved. Recent scholarship and journalism has preferred this term to

“a port, city, or other center to which goods are brought for import and export, and for collection and distribution”

Entrepreneurship involves an individual setting up businesses, taking a financial risk, in the hopes of future profit.

Order Now!