Abstract
The history of Jews in the Islamic world and the Iberian Peninsula has been marked by numerous migrations, displacements, and expulsions, alongside the long-term stability of well-established communities over centuries. This workshop seeks to explore how Jewish communities articulated their attachment to their places of residence in tandem with their conceptual and historical ties to Zion and to Spain, and how these affiliations intersected with new forms of belonging and loyalty that emerged through migration and integration in North and South America and Western Europe. We invite proposals for short presentations, particularly those engaging with methodological and interdisciplinary questions, with the aim of challenging persistent binary frameworks in the field, such as homeland versus diaspora and highlighting instead the multidirectional and multilayered connections between multiple homelands.