From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times

Essays in Honor of Jane S. Gerber

Federica Francesconi, Stanley Mirvis, Brian Smollett (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

380 Seiten

2018
Brill (Verlag)
9789004376700 (ISBN)

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From Catalonia to the Caribbean is a polyphonic collection of essays in dialogue with Jane S. Gerber’s seminal contributions to Sephardic Studies. The essays present new sources and new perspectives that challenge our perceptions of the Sephardic experience from Medieval to Modern Times.

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 to expand our understanding of Sephardic cultural, intellectual, and social history. The subjects of this volume are men and women, rich and poor, connected to various Sephardic Diasporas—Spanish, Portuguese, North African, or Middle Eastern—from medieval to modern times. They each, in their own way, challenged the expectations of their societies and helped to define the religious, ethnic, and intellectual experience of Sephardim as well as surrounding cultures throughout the world.

Federica Francesconi, Ph.D. (2007) is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her forthcoming monograph is titled Invisible Enlighteners: Modenese Jewry from Renaissance to Emancipation. Stanley Mirvis, Ph.D. (2013) is Post-Doctoral researcher at the Hebrew University. His forthcoming monograph is titled The Jews of Colonial Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition (Yale University Press). Brian M. Smollett, Ph.D. (2014) is Associate Dean of List College and the Gershon Kekst Graduate School and Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought at Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Notes on Contributors

Jane S. Gerber: An Appreciation

Brian M. Smollett>

Introduction: From Catalonia to the Caribbean

Federica Francesconi and Stanley Mirvis>

Part 1: The Medieval Mediterranean

1 In the Beginning Was the Poem: Hebrew Prefatory Verse in Golden Age al-Andalus

Maud Kozodoy>

2 Some Customs of Jews in Medieval Spain

Norman Roth>

3 Textiles Travel: The Role of Sephardim in the Transmission of Textile Forms and Designs

Vivian B. Mann>

4 The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Marginality and the Notion of a Mediterranean Society

Jonathan Ray>

Part 2: Women of the Genizah

5 Independent Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt: Enterprise and Ambiguity

Judith R. Baskin>

6 A Look at Medieval Egyptian Jewry and Environs: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah Documents

Renée Levine Melammed>

Part 3: Italy and Western Europe

7 The Sephardic Jewish Merchants of Venice, Port Jews, and the Road to Modernity

Benjamin Ravid>

8 The Merchants at the Casino: Sephardic Elites and Leisure Time in Eighteenth-Century Livorno

Francesca Bregoli>

9 LaJébéra et Les Confréries de la Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne au XVIIIe Siècle

Gérard Nahon ל״ז>

Part 4: Jews under Islam

10 Jews in the Central Islamic Lands in the Eleventh Century

D.G. Tor>

11 Syrian-Jewish Emigration to Egypt

Yaron Harel>

12 How Jews Became “Moroccan”

Daniel J. Schroeter>

Part 5: The Modern Experience

13 The Trial of Joshua Montefiore and the Limits of Atlantic Jewish Inclusion

Stanley Mirvis>

14 The Absorption of Outsiders: Gibraltarian and North Africans in London’s Portuguese Jewish Community

Aviva Ben-Ur>

15 From Childhood to Old Age in Twenty-Four Years: The Ecole Maïmonide in Algiers, 1940–1964

Jessica Hammerman>

16 Millàs Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937–1938)

Thomas F. Glick>

Part 6: Documents: Unknown Sephardic Voices

17 “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>

18 Jews and Muslims in Egypt at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: Two Responsa of Ḥakham Ḥayim Capusi

Matt Goldish>

19 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

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ; 61
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	721 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9789004376700 / 9789004376700
Zustand	Neuware