After ExpulsionHonorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer book award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History presented by the Association for Jewish Studies On August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sail from Spain, the long and glorious history of that nations Jewish community officially came to a close. The expulsion of Europes last major Jewish community ended more than a thousand years of unparalleled prosperity, cultural vitality and