From Catalonia to the Caribbean : the Sephardic orbit from medieval to modern times : essays in honor of Jane S. Gerber
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From Catalonia to the Caribbean : the Sephardic orbit from medieval to modern times : essays in honor of Jane S. Gerber
(Brill's series in Jewish studies, v. 61)
Brill, c2018
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From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times is a polyphonic collection of essays in honor of Jane S. Gerber's contributions as a leading scholar and teacher. Each chapter presents new or underappreciated source materials or questions familiar historical models to expand our understanding of Sephardic cultural, intellectual, and social history. The subjects of this volume are men and women, rich and poor, connected to various Sephardic Diasporas-Spanish, Portuguese, North African, or Middle Eastern-from medieval to modern times. They each, in their own way, challenged the expectations of their societies and helped to define the religious, ethnic, and intellectual experience of Sephardim as well as surrounding cultures throughout the world.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Jane S. Gerber: An Appreciation
Brian M. Smollett>
Introduction: From Catalonia to the Caribbean
Federica Francesconi and Stanley Mirvis>
Part 1: The Medieval Mediterranean
1 In the Beginning Was the Poem: Hebrew Prefatory Verse in Golden Age al-Andalus
Maud Kozodoy>
2 Some Customs of Jews in Medieval Spain
Norman Roth>
3 Textiles Travel: The Role of Sephardim in the Transmission of Textile Forms and Designs
Vivian B. Mann>
4 The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Marginality and the Notion of a Mediterranean Society
Jonathan Ray>
Part 2: Women of the Genizah
5 Independent Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt: Enterprise and Ambiguity
Judith R. Baskin>
6 A Look at Medieval Egyptian Jewry and Environs: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah Documents
Renee Levine Melammed>
Part 3: Italy and Western Europe
7 The Sephardic Jewish Merchants of Venice, Port Jews, and the Road to Modernity
Benjamin Ravid>
8 The Merchants at the Casino: Sephardic Elites and Leisure Time in Eighteenth-Century Livorno
Francesca Bregoli>
9 LaJebera et Les Confreries de la Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne au XVIIIe Siecle
Gerard Nahon >
Part 4: Jews under Islam
10 Jews in the Central Islamic Lands in the Eleventh Century
D.G. Tor>
11 Syrian-Jewish Emigration to Egypt
Yaron Harel>
12 How Jews Became "Moroccan"
Daniel J. Schroeter>
Part 5: The Modern Experience
13 The Trial of Joshua Montefiore and the Limits of Atlantic Jewish Inclusion
Stanley Mirvis>
14 The Absorption of Outsiders: Gibraltarian and North Africans in London's Portuguese Jewish Community
Aviva Ben-Ur>
15 From Childhood to Old Age in Twenty-Four Years: The Ecole Maimonide in Algiers, 1940-1964
Jessica Hammerman>
16 Millas Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937-1938)
Thomas F. Glick>
Part 6: Documents: Unknown Sephardic Voices
17 "And if I Could, I Would Leave Her More": Women's Voices, Emotions, and Objects from the Venetian Ghetto in the Seventeenth Century
Federica Francesconi>
18 Jews and Muslims in Egypt at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: Two Responsa of Hakham Hayim Capusi
Matt Goldish>
19 A Report by Franz von Dombay in 1789 on the Moroccan Court Mentioning Jewish Courtiers
Norman (Noam) A. Stillman>
The Writings of Jane S. Gerber
Index
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