Sephardi family life in the early modern diaspora / edited by Julia R. Lieberman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lieberman, Julia Rebollo.

Series:

HBI series on Jewish women.

HBI series on Jewish women

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Turkey--History--16th century.

Jews.

Sephardim--Turkey--History--16th century.

Sephardim.

Jewish converts from Christianity--Italy--History--17th century.

Jewish converts from Christianity.

Jewish women--History--16th century.

Jewish women.

Jewish women--History--17th century.

Sephardim--Social conditions--Europe, Western.

Jewish children--Social conditions--Europe, Western.

Jewish children.

Families--Europe, Western.

Families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 279 p. :) maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waltham, MA : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Groundbreaking essays on Sephardic Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire and Western Sephardic communities.

Contents:

Communal pride and feminine virtue: suspecting "sivlonot" in the Jewish communities of the Ottoman empire in the early sixteenth century / Hannah Davidson

Mothers and children as seen by sixteenth-century rabbis in the Ottoman empire / Ruth Lamdan

Religious space, gender, and power in the Sephardi diaspora: the return to Judaism of new Christian men and women in Livorno and Pisa / Cristina Galasso

Childhood and family among the western Sephardim in the seventeenth century / Julia R. Lieberman

Sephardi women in Holland's golden age / Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld

Researching the childhood of new Jews of the Western Sephardi diaspora in light of recent historiography / David Graizbord.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-282-89570-2

9786612895708

1-58465-943-2

OCLC:

691268255