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Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism
Häftad, 2012
329 kr
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Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the Jews of Bukhara have also maintained deep connections to the wider Jewish world. As the community …
Ode to Salonika
The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty
Inbunden, 2013
403 kr
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Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads city. A resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and later settled in Canada, Sarfatty preserved the …
Ode to Salonika
The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty
E-bok, 2013
116 kr
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Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads city. A resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and later settled in Canada, Sarfatty preserved the …
Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen
Av Mark S. Wagner, Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Inbunden, 2014
882 kr
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In early 20th-century Yemen, a sizable Jewish population was subject to sumptuary laws and social restrictions. Jews regularly came into contact with Islamic courts and Muslim jurists, by choice and by necessity, became embroiled in the most intimate details of their Jewish neighbors' lives. Mark …
Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen
Av Mark S. Wagner, Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Häftad, 2014
325 kr
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In early 20th-century Yemen, a sizable Jewish population was subject to sumptuary laws and social restrictions. Jews regularly came into contact with Islamic courts and Muslim jurists, by choice and by necessity, became embroiled in the most intimate details of their Jewish neighbors' lives. Mark …
Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature
Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492
Inbunden, 2015
589 kr
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The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven …
Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine
Community and National Identity, 1880-1960
Inbunden, 2016
989 kr
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At the turn of the 20th century, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East were called Turcos ("Turks"), and they were seen as distinct from Ashkenazim, not even identified as Jews. Adriana M. Brodsky follows the history of Sephardim as they arrived in Argentina, created immigrant organizations, …
Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine
Community and National Identity, 1880-1960
Häftad, 2016
339 kr
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At the turn of the 20th century, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East were called Turcos ("Turks"), and they were seen as distinct from Ashkenazim, not even identified as Jews. Adriana M. Brodsky follows the history of Sephardim as they arrived in Argentina, created immigrant organizations, …
Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic
Blood and Faith
Inbunden, 2016
718 kr
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Identity, family, and community unite three autobiographical texts by New World crypto-Jews, or descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity in 17th-century Iberia and Spanish America. Ronnie Perelis presents the fascinating stories of three men who were caught within the matrix …
On the Mediterranean and the Nile
The Jews of Egypt
Inbunden, 2018
1040 kr
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Aimée Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers, Israel-Pelletier confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab …
Beginnings of Ladino Literature
Moses Almosnino and His Readers
Inbunden, 2017
782 kr
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Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians, became renowned for his vernacular books that were admired by Ladino readers across many generations. While Almosnino's works were written in a style …
On the Mediterranean and the Nile
The Jews of Egypt
E-bok, 2018
101 kr
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Aimée Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers, Israel-Pelletier confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab …
Beginnings of Ladino Literature
Moses Almosnino and His Readers
E-bok, 2017
677 kr
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Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians, became renowned for his vernacular books that were admired by Ladino readers across many generations. While Almosnino's works were written in a style …
Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition
The Role of Arabic in Judah Ibn Tibbon's Ethical Will
Inbunden, 2017
782 kr
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Beginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professional guidance. The detailed letter, described as an ethical will, was revised through the years and offered a vivid picture of intellectual life …
Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition
The Role of Arabic in Judah Ibn Tibbon's Ethical Will
E-bok, 2017
677 kr
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Beginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professional guidance. The detailed letter, described as an ethical will, was revised through the years and offered a vivid picture of intellectual life …
On the Mediterranean and the Nile
The Jews of Egypt
Häftad, 2018
379 kr
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Aimée Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers, Israel-Pelletier confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab …
Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks
Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide
Av Marc D. Baer
Häftad, 2020
513 kr
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What compels Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and abroad to promote a positive image of Ottomans and Turks while they deny the Armenian genocide and the existence of antisemitism in Turkey? Based on historical narrative, the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 were embraced by the Ottoman Empire …
Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks
Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide
Av Marc D. Baer
Inbunden, 2020
1105 kr
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What compels Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and abroad to promote a positive image of Ottomans and Turks while they deny the Armenian genocide and the existence of antisemitism in Turkey? Based on historical narrative, the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 were embraced by the Ottoman Empire …
Jews and the Mediterranean
Av Matthias B. Lehmann, Jessica M. Marglin
Inbunden, 2020
905 kr
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What does an understanding of Jewish history contribute to the study of the Mediterranean, and what can Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of Jewish history? Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and …
Jews and the Mediterranean
Av Matthias B. Lehmann, Jessica M. Marglin
Häftad, 2020
329 kr
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What does an understanding of Jewish history contribute to the study of the Mediterranean, and what can Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of Jewish history? Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and …
Memory Work of Jewish Spain
Av Daniela Flesler, Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Inbunden, 2020
1129 kr
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The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the "re-discovery" of its Jewish heritage. In The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa examine the …
Memory Work of Jewish Spain
Av Daniela Flesler, Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Häftad, 2020
540 kr
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The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the "re-discovery" of its Jewish heritage. In The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa examine the …
Jewish Literary Eros
Between Poetry and Prose in the Medieval Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2022
589 kr
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In Jewish Literary Eros, Isabelle Levy explores the originality and complexity of medieval Jewish writings. Examining medieval prosimetra (texts composed of alternating prose and verse), Levy demonstrates that secular love is the common theme across Arabic, Hebrew, French, and Italian texts. At the …
Sephardi Sea
Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2022
874 kr
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A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from their country of birth for Europe, Israel, and beyond. It is a story that explores their contrasting memories of and feelings for a Sephardi Jewish world …
Sephardi Sea
Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean
Häftad, 2022
339 kr
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A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from their country of birth for Europe, Israel, and beyond. It is a story that explores their contrasting memories of and feelings for a Sephardi Jewish world …
Israeli Bourekas Films
Their Origins and Legacy
Av Rami Kimchi
Inbunden, 2023
999 kr
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A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas Films, author and filmmaker Rami Kimchi sets out a history of Bourekas films and discusses their origin.Kimchi considers the representation of …
Israeli Bourekas Films
Their Origins and Legacy
Av Rami Kimchi
Häftad, 2023
342 kr
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A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas Films, author and filmmaker Rami Kimchi sets out a history of Bourekas films and discusses their origin.Kimchi considers the representation of …
Meat Matters
Ethnographic Refractions of the Beta Israel
Inbunden, 2023
931 kr
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Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted thought the symbolism of meat. Drawing upon thirty years of fieldwork, this beautifully written and innovatively constructed ethnography tells the story of the Beta Israel, who began immigrating from …
Meat Matters
Ethnographic Refractions of the Beta Israel
Häftad, 2023
339 kr
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Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted thought the symbolism of meat. Drawing upon thirty years of fieldwork, this beautifully written and innovatively constructed ethnography tells the story of the Beta Israel, who began immigrating from …
Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas
Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community
Av Aviad Moreno
Inbunden, 2024
989 kr
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Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas explores how the 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval Sepharad, and the broader Hispanophone world that was unlike anything experienced elsewhere. The Hispanic Moroccan Jewish diaspora, as this group is …
