The Sephardic Experience East and West, : Essays in Honor of Jane S. Gerber.

• Superior document: Brill's series in Jewish studies ; Volume 61
• Author: Federica Francesconi; Stanley Mirvis; Brian Smollett (Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Francesconi, Federica,; Mirvis, Stanley,; Smollett, Brian M.,; Gerber, Jane S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 61.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (377 pages).

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...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Jane S. Gerber: An Appreciation
• Introduction: From Catalonia to the Caribbean / Federica Francesconi and Stanley Mirvis
• The Medieval Mediterranean
• 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
• Women of the Genizah
• 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 / Renée Levine Melammed
• Italy and Western Europe
• 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 Jébéra et Les Confréries de la Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne au XVIIIe Siècle / Gérard Nahon ז״ל
• Jews under Islam
• Jews in the Central Islamic Lands in the Eleventh Century / D.G. Tor
• The Unique Case of the Syrian-Jewish Immigrants in Egypt / Yaron Harel
• How Jews Became “Moroccan” / Daniel J. Schroeter
• The Modern Experience
• 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 Maïmonide in Algiers, 1940–1964 / Jessica Hammerman
• Millàs Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937–1938) / Thomas F. Glick
• Documents: Unknown Voices
• “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
• Back Matter
• Index.