Between Sepharad and Jerusalem : : history, identity and memory of the Sephardim / / by Alisa Meyuhas Ginio.

Sephardim are the descendants of the Jews expelled from the lands of the Iberian Peninsula in the years 1492-1498, who settled down in the Mediterranean basin. The identifying sign of the Sephardim has been, until the middle of the twentieth century, the language known as Jewish-Spanish. The history...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:The Iberian Religious World 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (382 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Who is a Sephardi?
  • 1 From Expulsion to Revival
  • 2 The Meʿam Loʿez: The Masterpiece of Ladino Literature (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)
  • 3 Immigrants in the Land of Their Birth: The Sephardi ­Community in Jerusalem. The Test Case of the Meyuḥas Family
  • 4 Beautiful Damsels and Men of Valor: Ladino Literature Giving Us a Peek into the Spiritual World of Sephardi Women in Jerusalem (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries)
  • 5 The Spanish Senator Dr. Ángel Pulido Fernández and the “Spaniards without a Homeland”, Speakers of Jewish Spanish
  • 6 The Lost Identity of the Sephardim in The Land of Israel and the State of Israel
  • Epilogue: History in the Eyes of the Beholder
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Rerum
  • Index Personarum.