New horizons in Sephardic studies / edited by Yedida K. Stillman and George K. Zucker.

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Book
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English
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Albany : State University of New York Press, c1993.
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1 online resource (323 p.)

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This book contains the most recent research in the intrinsically interdisciplinary field of Sephardic Studies. It provides new insights into Sephardic history, culture, folklore, languages, music, and literature from both new and established international scholars.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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English
Contents
  • ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Content""; ""PART ONE: History and Philosophy""; ""Sephardic Settlement in Ferrara under the House of Este""; ""The Universita Degli Hebrei and the Nationi of the Venice Ghetto (1516-1630): A Reconsideration of Some Presuppositions of Contemporary Jewish Historiography""; ""On the Concept of Beauty in the Philosophy of Yehudah Abrabanel""; ""The Conventionalization of Social Bonds and the Strategies of Jewish Society in the Thirteenth Century""
  • ""The Jewish Quarter and the Moroccan City""""Literature as a Source for the History of Libyan Jewry During the Ottoman Period""; ""A ""Maskil"" in Aleppo: ""The Torah of Israel and the People of Israel"" by Rabbi Yitzhak Dayyan (Aleppo, 5683/1923)""; ""The Periodization of the History of the New Christians and Crypto, Jews in Spanish America""; ""Cryptojews in Rio de la Plata in the Seventeenth Century""; ""PART TWO: Language and Literature""; ""Introduction""; ""Camilo Castelo Branco and the Portuguese Inquisition""; ""The Inquisition and the Jewin Lat in American Drama""
  • ""The Inquisition and the Jew in Latin American Drama""""Anthroponyms in the Collection of Moroccan Sephardic Ballads""; """"Plazeme de tus Enojos"": Alfonso Alvarez de Villasandino against Alfonso Ferrandes Semuel""; ""Maimonides, Al-Andalus and the Influence of the Spanish-Arabic Dialect on His Language""; ""Uncovering the Origins of the Judeo-Ibero-Romance Languages""; ""Problems of Transcribing Sephardic Texts into the Roman Alphabet""; ""PART THREE: Ethnography and Folklore""; ""Memories of Jewish Life""; ""Misogyny or Philogyny: The Case of a Judeo, Spanish Folktale""
  • ""Customs of Pregnancy and Childbirth among Sephardic and Oriental Jews""""A Conversation in Proverbs: Judeo-Spanish Refranes in Context""; ""Expressive Modes in the Judeo-Spanish Wedding Song""; ""The Music of the Songs: Musical Transcriptions and Commentary of the Songs Discussed by Oro Anahory-Librowicz in ""Expressive Modes in the Judeo-Spanish Wedding Song""""; ""Back Matter""; ""Contributors""
ISBN
  • 9781438421315
  • 1438421311
OCLC
794701330
Doi
  • 10.1515/9781438421315
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