Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry : from the Golden Age of Spain to modern times / edited by Zion Zohar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zohar, Zion.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Spain--History.

Jews.

Spain.

History.

Sephardim.

Mizrahim.

Physical Description:

viii, 343 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Sephardic & Mizrahi Jewry : from the Golden Age of Spain to modern times

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2005]

Summary:

Sephardic Jews trace their origins to Spain and Portugal. They enjoyed a renaissance in these lands until their expulsion during the Spanish Inquisition in 1492, when they settled in the countries along the Mediterranean, throughout the Ottoman Empire, in the Balkans, and in the lands of North Africa, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, mixing with the Mizrahi, or Oriental, Jews already in these locations. Sephardic Jews have contributed some of the most important Jewish philosophers and have played a decisive role in the development of Jewish mysticism.

Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry brings together original work from the world's leading scholars to present an overview of Sephardic/Mizrahi history and culture over the past 1,500 years. The book presents an overarching chronological and thematic survey of topics ranging from the origin of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry and their history to kabbalah, philosophy, and biblical commentary, and Sephardic Jewish life in the modern era.

Contents:

Sephardic Jewry in the Middle Ages : origins, development, and flowering.

A global perspective on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry : an introductory essay / Zion Zohar

The origins of Sephardic Jewry in the medieval Arab world / Mark R. Cohen

The Judeo-Arabic heritage / Norman A. Stillman

Judeo-Spanish culture in medieval and modern times / David M. Bunis

Literatures of medieval Sepharad / Johnathan P. Decter

Medieval Sephardic-oriental Jewish Bible exegesis : the contributions of Saadia Gaon and Abraham ibn Ezra / Isaac Kalimi

Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah in Spain / Moshe Idel

From expulsion to the modern era : exile, decline, and revival.

Hispanic culture in exile : Sephardic life in the Ottoman Balkans / Annette B. Fromm

Sephardic jurisprudence in the recent half-millennium / Zvi Zohar

Safed Kabbalah and the Sephardic heritage / Morris M. Faierstein

Jewish women in the Ottoman Empire / Paméla Dorn Sezgin

Sephardic Jewry in the modern era and special topics.

Early modern Sephardim and Blacks : contact and conflict between two minorities / Jonathan Schorsch

Diversity and uniqueness : an introduction to Sephardic liturgical music / Mark Kligman

A double occlusion : Sephardim and the Holocaust / Henry Abramson

Sephardim and oriental Jews in Israel : rethinking the sociopolitical paradigm / Zion Zohar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814797059

0814797067

OCLC:

57514982