The Festschrift Darkhei Noam : : the Jews of Arab lands / / edited by Carsten Schapkow, Shmuel Shepkaru and Alan T. Levenson ; contributors, Allan Arkush [and twelve others].

• Superior document: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Volume 55
• TeilnehmendeR: Schapkow, Carsten, 1970-; Shepkaru, Shmuel,; Levenson, Alan T.,; Stillman, Norman A., 1945-; Arkush, Allan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's series in Jewish studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The Festschrift Darkhei Noam: The Jews of Arab Lands presented to Norman (Noam) Stillman offers a coherent and thought-provoking discussion by eminent scholars in the field of both the history and culture of the Jews in the Islamic World from pre-modern to modern times. Based on primary sources the book speaks to the resilience, flexibility, and creativity of Jewish culture in Arab lands. The volume clearly addresses the areas of research Norman Stillman himself has considerably contributed to. Research foci of the book are on the flexibility of Jewish law in real life, Jewish cultural life particularly on material and musical culture, the role of women in these different societies, antisemitism and Jewish responses to hatred against the Jews, and antisemitism from ancient martyrdom to modern political Zionism.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Festschrift Darkhei Noam: An Introduction / Carsten Schapkow , Shmuel Shepkaru and Alan T. Levenson -- 1 Karaite and Sadducee Inheritance Law in Light of Yefet ben ʿElī’s Commentary on Genesis 36 / Yoram Erder -- 2 Apes and the Sabbath Problem / Reuven Firestone -- 3 Notes on the Islamic Toponymy of the Holy Land and Holy City / Jacob Lassner -- 4 A Look at Women’s Lives in Cairo Geniza Society / Renée Levine Melammed -- 5 The “Custom of the Merchants” in Gaonic Jurisprudence and in Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah / Mark R. Cohen -- 6 Yiṣhaq-i Kamāl—A Martyr in Bukhārā / Vera B. Moreen -- 7 “Those Who Walk in the Court of Our Master the King”: The Sephardic Courtier Tradition Revisited / Jane S. Gerber -- 8 Deniers et marchandises : le financement commercial des juifs portugais à Bayonne au xviiie siècle / Gérard Nahon -- 9 A Pioneer Publication in Context: Abraham Zevi Idelsohn’s Gesänge der Marokkanischen Juden (1928/9) / Edwin Seroussi -- 10 Two Judeo-Arabic Translations of the Scroll of Antiochus from Ghardaïa (Algeria) / Ofra Tirosh-Becker -- 11 Secular Trends and Tradition: Post-Immigration Debates and Practices among Yemeni Jews / Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman -- 12 Max Nordau: The Post-Herzl Years / Allan Arkush -- A Selected Bibliography of Works by Norman (Noam) Stillman / Walker Robins -- Index.