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Paradoxically, both centrifugal forces (expulsions, migrations creating global dispersion) and centripetal trends (Hebrew printing, kabbalah) unified Jews in the early modern period.
Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and Marranos encountered each other in Italian cities, developing community structures that later influenced Jewish communal organization throughout the western world.
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