From Catalonia to the Caribbean : the Sephardic orbit from medieval to modern times : essays in honor of Jane S. Gerber
Record details
- ISBN: 9789004376700
- ISBN: 9004376712
- ISBN: 9789004376717
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 361 pages ).
remote - Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Jane S. Gerber: An Appreciation / Brian M. Smollett -- Introduction: From Catalonia to the Caribbean / Federica Francesconi and Stanley Mirvis -- In the Beginning Was the Poem: Hebrew Prefatory Verse in Golden Age al-Andalus / Maud Kozodoy -- Some Customs of Jews in Medieval Spain / Norman Roth -- Textiles Travel: The Role of Sephardim in the Transmission of Textile Forms and Designs / Vivian B. Mann -- The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Marginality and the Notion of a Mediterranean Society / Jonathan Ray -- Independent Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt: Enterprise and Ambiguity / Judith R. Baskin -- A Look at Medieval Egyptian Jewry and Environs: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah Documents / Renee Levine Melammed -- The Sephardic Jewish Merchants of Venice, Port Jews, and the Road to Modernity / Benjamin Ravid -- The Merchants at the Casino: Sephardic Elites and Leisure Time in Eighteenth-Century Livorno / Francesca Bregoli -- La Jebera et Les Confreries de la Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne au XVIIIe Siecle / Gerard Nahon -- Jews in the Central Islamic Lands in the Eleventh Century / D.G. Tor -- Syrian-Jewish Emigration to Egypt / Yaron Harel -- How Jews Became "Moroccan" / Daniel J. Schroeter -- The Trial of Joshua Montefiore and the Limits of Atlantic Jewish Inclusion / Stanley Mirvis -- The Absorption of Outsiders: Gibraltarian and North Africans in London's Portuguese Jewish Community / Aviva Ben-Ur -- From Childhood to Old Age in Twenty-Four Years: The Ecole Maimonide in Algiers, 1940-1964 / Jessica Hammerman -- Millas Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937-1938) / Thomas F. Glick -- "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 -- Jews and Muslims in Egypt at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: Two Responsa of Ḥakham Ḥayim Capusi / Matt Goldish -- 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 11, 2018). |
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Subject: | Sephardim -- History Mizrahim -- History HISTORY / World Mizrahim Sephardim |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |