Between Sepharad and Jerusalem : history, identity and memory of the Sephardim / by Alisa Meyuhas Ginio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyuhas Ginio, Alisa, 1937- author.

Contributor:

Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Series:

Iberian religious world ; v. 1.

The Iberian religious world ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish diaspora.

History.

Ladino language.

Ladino literature.

Spain--Ethnic relations.

Spain.

Ethnic relations.

Meyuḥas family.

Sephardim--History.

Sephardim.

Jews--Spain--History.

Jews.

Ladino literature--History and criticism.

Ladino language--History.

Jewish diaspora--History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 372 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

Sephardim are the descendants of the Jews expelled from the lands of the Iberian Peninsula in the years 1492-1498, when settled down in the Mediterranean basin. The identifying sign of the Sephardim has been, until the middle of the twentieth century, the language known as Jewish-Spanish. The history, identity and memory of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean dispersal are analysed by the author with a special reference to the Sephardi community of Jerusalem and to the cultural and social changes that characterized the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. However, because of the crucial changes related to modernization and the political circumstances that came into being at the turn of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, the Sephardim lost their unique identity. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 From Expulsion to Revival 37

The Expulsion from Spain 37

To Where did the Exiled Turn to Go? 44

Portugal 46

Navarre 48

North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya 49

Italy 53

The Ottoman Empire 56

Leaders of the Sephardi Communities in the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth Century 66

Jerusalem 67

Safed 72

Tiberias 74

Hebron 75

The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries 76

The Turkish Republic 84

Conclusion 85

2 The Me'am Lo'ez: The Masterpiece of Ladino Literature (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries) 87

The Anthology Me'am Lo'ez 87

Everyday life of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean Dispersal According to the Me'am Lo'ez 102

3 Immigrants in the Land of Their Birth: The Sephardi Community in Jerusalem. The Test Case of the Meyuhas Family 116

Modernization Processes in the Ottoman Empire 116

The Alliance Israélite Universelle 126

A Jerusalemite Sephardi Family in the Change of Time: The Test Case of The Meyuhas Family 145

The History of the Meyuhas Family in the Balkans and in Istanbul (Kushta) 157

The Meyuhas Family in Jerusalem: The Megilat Yohasin of the Rishon Le-Zion Rabbi Refael Meyuhas and the Purim de los Meyuhasim 166

The Descendants of Rabbi Refael Meyuhas 175

Shadarim of the Meyuhas Family 180

The Meyuhas Family in Kefar Ha-Shilo'ah 202

Conclusion 204

4 Beautiful Damsels and Men of Valor: Ladino Literature Giving Us a Peek into the Spiritual World of Sephardi Women in Jerusalem (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries) 207

Ladino Books Kept by Nona Flor 207

Nona Flor the Storyteller 225

Old Readers and New Readers 245

Conclusion 247

5 The Spanish Senator Dr. Ángel Pulido Fernández and the "Spaniards without a Homeland", Speakers of Jewish Spanish 248

Dr. Ángel Pulido Fernández and the Sephardim 249

How Did the Sephardim React to Pulido's Ideas? 277

Conclusion 287

6 The Lost Identity of the Sephardim in The Land of Israel and the State of Israel 289

The Weekly Hed Ha-Mizrah and its Readers 289

The Second World War in Greece: The Extermination of the Jews 302

The Sephardim of the Land of Israel Facing the Holocaust 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

ISBN:

9789004279483

9004279482

OCLC:

896836837

Publisher Number:

99960781607

40024266508