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Sephardic identity : essays on a vanishing Jewish culture / edited by George K. Zucker.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks DS134 .S379 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sephardim--History.
- Sephardim.
- History.
- Sephardim--Intellectual life.
- Jews--Civilization.
- Jews.
- Jews--Identity.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 230 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2005]
- Summary:
- "These essays are divided into sections exploring history, sociology, anthropology, language, literature, and the performing arts. An introduction to Sephardism begins the work and a conclusion discusses the Sephardic Education Center, which hopes to assure the culture's future"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Sephardic scholarship : a personal journey / Isaac Jack Lävy
- Are the Sephardim Jews or Judaized Arabs, Berbers, and Iberians? / Paul Wexler
- Iberian exiles in the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire / Abraham David
- A surreptitious tolerance : Jews, Muslims and Christians in the southern Balearic Islands / Gloria Mound
- Assimilation and identity in Spain, Portugal, and their colonies / Eva Alexandra Uchmany
- Sephardic remnants in Ioannina / Annette B. Fromm
- The power of speech among the Sephardim / Rosemary Lävy Zumwalt
- What language did the Jews speak in pre-expulsion Spain? / Tracy K. Harris
- Don Isaac Abravanel on exile and redemption / Moshe Hallamish
- Judaic motifs and religious inclinations in Romance al divín mártir, Judá Creyente by Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1600-1663) / Nechama Kramer-Hellinx
- Sebastián de Horozco (1510-1580), the ambivalent anti-Semitic Converso / Jack Weiner
- The Judeo-Spanish press in Salonika : from glory to destruction / Yitzchak Kerem
- The allure of Sepharad / Edna Aizenberg
- Is Sephardic dance too sexy? / Judith Brin Ingber
- Sephardic vocal music and the tape recorder : new life or the end of an oral tradition? / David Jordan Harris
- The mediaization of Judeo-Spanish song / Judith R. Cohen
- The Sephardic education center : crisis of identity and assimilation in modern American Judaism / Michael M. Laskier.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0786420219
- OCLC:
- 57192997
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