Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry : : From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times / / ed. by Zion Zohar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abramson, Henry,; Bunis, David M.,; Cohen, Mark R.,; Decter, Jonathan P.,; Faierstein, Morris M.,; Fromm, Annette B.,; Idel, Moshe,; Kalimi, Isaac,; Kligman, Mark,; Schorsch, Jonathan,; Sezgin, Paméla Dorn,; Stillman, Norman A.,; Zohar, Zion,; Zohar, Zvi,
• HerausgeberIn: Zohar, Zion,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 of Jewish mysticism. Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry brings together original work from the world's leading scholars to present a deep introductory overview of their history and culture over the past 1500 years. The book presents an overarching chronological and thematic survey of topics ranging from the origin of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry and their history to kabbalah, philosophy, and biblical commentary, and Sephardic Jewish life in the modern era. This collection represents the most up-to-date scholarship about Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry available.Contributors include: Mark R. Cohen, Norman Stillman, David Bunis, Jonathan Decter, Yitzhak Kalimi, Moshe Idel, Annette B. Fromm, Zvi Zohar, Morris Fairstein, Pamela Dorn Sezgin, Mark Kligman, and Henry Abramson.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Sephardic Jewry in the Middle Ages Origins, Development, and Flowering -- Chapter 1 A Global Perspective on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry An Introductory Essay -- Chapter 2 The Origins of Sephardic Jewry in the Medieval Arab World -- Chapter 3 The Judeo-Arabic Heritage -- Chapter 4 Judeo-Spanish Culture in Medieval and Modern Times -- Chapter 5 Literatures of Medieval Sepharad -- Chapter 6 Medieval Sephardic-Oriental Jewish Bible Exegesis: The Contributions of Saadia Gaon and Abraham ibn Ezra -- Chapter 7 Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah in Spain -- Part II From Expulsion to the Modern Era: Exile, Decline, and Revival -- Chapter 8 Hispanic Culture in Exile: Sephardic Life in the Ottoman Balkans -- Chapter 9 Sephardic Jurisprudence in the Recent Half-Millennium -- Chapter 10 Safed Kabbalah and the Sephardic Heritage -- Chapter 11 Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire -- Part III Sephardic Jewry in the Modern Era and Special Topics -- Chapter 12 Early Modern Sephardim and Blacks Contact and Conflict between Two Minorities -- Chapter 13 Diversity and Uniqueness An Introduction to Sephardic Liturgical Music -- Chapter 14 A Double Occlusion Sephardim and the Holocaust -- Chapter 15 Sephardim and Oriental Jews in Israel Rethinking the Sociopolitical Paradigm -- About the Contributors -- Index