Editing Sephardic Jews (section)

==Literature==
[[File:10488 Cordoba 11 Jewish Quarter Maimonides (11967548236).jpg|thumb|Statue of [[Maimonides]] in [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]] ]]
The doctrine of ''[[galut]]'' is considered by scholars to be one of the most important concepts in Jewish history, if not the most important. In Jewish literature ''glut'', the [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] word for [[diaspora]], invoked common motifs of oppression, martyrdom, and suffering in discussing the collective experience of exile in [[diaspora]] that has been uniquely formative in Jewish culture. This literature was shaped for centuries by the expulsions from Spain and Portugal and thus featured prominently in a wide range of medieval [[Jewish literature]] from rabbinic writings to profane poetry. Even so, the treatment of ''glut''  diverges in Sephardic sources, which scholar David A. Wacks says "occasionally belie the relatively comfortable circumstances of the Jewish community of Sefarad."<ref>David A. Wacks, ''Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature'', Indiana University Press (2015), p, 13–22</ref>