New Horizons in Sephardic Studies

Yedida K. Stillman is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Chair of the Department of Judaic Studies at State University of New York, Binghamton. She is the author of Palestinian Costume and Jewelry and From Southern Morocco to Northern Israel: A Study in the Material Culture of Shelomi. George K. Zucker is Professor of Spanish at the University of Northern Iowa.

"New Horizons in Sephardic Studies reflects the breadth, diversity, and interdisciplinary character of Sephardic Studies. New material is presented in an accessible manner, and the variety of perspectives matches the richness of the subject. The quality of the contributions is uniformly strong." — Jane Gerber, City University of New York Graduate School"It really sets the agenda for this whole developing field." — Raymond P. Scheindlin, Jewish Theological Seminary of Americaa

• Preface PART ONE: History and Philosophy IntroductionNorman A. Stillman 1. Sephardic Settlement in Ferrara under the House of EstePier Cesare Ioly Zorattini 2. The Universita Degli Hebrei and the Nationi of the Venice Ghetto (1516-1630): A Reconsideration of Some Presuppositions of Contemporary Jewish HistoriographyJacqueline Genot-Bismuth 3. On the Concept of Beauty in the Philosophy of Yehudah AbrabanelZe'ev Levy 4. The Conventionalization of Social Bonds and the Strategies of Jewish Society in the Thirteenth CenturySchmuel Trigano 5. The Jewish Quarter and the Moroccan CityDaniel Schroeter 6. Literature as a Source for the History of Libyan Jewry During the Ottoman PeriodRachel Simon 7. A "Maskil" in Aleppo: "The Torah of Israel and the People of Israel" by Rabbi Yitzhak Dayyan (Aleppo, 5683/1923)Zvi Zohar 8. The Periodization of the History of the New Christians and Crypto-Jews in Spanish AmericaEva Alexandra Uchmany 9. Cryptojews in Rio de la Plata in the Seventeenth CenturyMatilde Gini de Barnatan PART TWO: Language and Literature IntroductionDavid M. Gitlitz 10. Camilo Castelo Branco and the Portuguese InquisitionHelen A. Shepard 11. The Inquisition and the Jew in Latin American DramaSandra Messinger Cypess 12. Anthroponyms in the Collection of Moroccan Sephardic BalladsPaloma Diaz-Mas 13. "Plazeme de tus Enojos": Alfonso Alvarez de Villasandino against Alfonso Ferrandez SemuelCarlos Mota 14. Maimonides, Al-Andalus and the Influence of the Spanish-Arabic Dialect on His LanguageJoshua Blau 15. Uncovering the Origins of the Judeo-Ibero-Romance LanguagesPaul Wexler 16. Problems of Transcribing Sephardic Texts into the Roman AlphabetGeorge K. Zucker PART THREE: Ethnography and Folklore IntroductionWalter P. Zenner 17. Memories of Jewish LifeSteve Siporin 18. Misogyny or Philogyny: The Case of a Judeo-Spanish FolktaleReginetta Haboucha 19. Customs of Pregnancy and Childbirth among Sephardic and Oriental JewsIssachar Ben-Ami 20. A Conversation in Proverbs: Judeo-Spanish Refranes in ContextIsaac Jack Levy and Rosemary Levy Zumwalt 21. Expressive Modes in the Judeo-Spanish Wedding SongOro Anahory-Librowicz 22. The Music of the Songs: Musical Transcriptions and Commentary of the Songs Discussed by Oro Anahory-Librowicz in "Expressive Modes in the Judeo-Spanish Wedding Song"Judith R. Cohen Contributors