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):

Mizrahim.

Sephardim.

Jews--Spain--History.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sephardic Jews trace their origins to Spain and Portugal. They enjoyed a renaissance in these lands until their expulsion from Spain 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, poets, biblical commentators, Talmudic and Halachic scholars, and scientists, and have had a significant impact on the development

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I Sephardic Jewry in the Middle Ages: Origins, Development, and Flowering; 1 A Global Perspective on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry: An Introductory Essay; 2 The Origins of Sephardic Jewry in the Medieval Arab World; 3 The Judeo-Arabic Heritage; 4 Judeo-Spanish Culture in Medieval and Modern Times; 5 Literatures of Medieval Sepharad; 6 Medieval Sephardic-Oriental Jewish Bible Exegesis: The Contributions of Saadia Gaon and Abraham ibn Ezra; 7 Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah in Spain; Part II From Expulsion to the Modern Era: Exile, Decline, and Revival

8 Hispanic Culture in Exile: Sephardic Life in the Ottoman Balkans9 Sephardic Jurisprudence in the Recent Half-Millennium; 10 Safed Kabbalah and the Sephardic Heritage; 11 Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire; Part III Sephardic Jewry in the Modern Era and Special Topics; 12 Early Modern Sephardim and Blacks: Contact and Conflict between Two Minorities; 13 Diversity and Uniqueness: An Introduction to Sephardic Liturgical Music; 14 A Double Occlusion: Sephardim and the Holocaust; Sephardim and Oriental Jews in Israel; About the Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814763865

0814763863

9780814797419

0814797415

OCLC:

780425956