From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Timesis 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.
Author(s): Federica Francesconi; Stanley Mirvis; Brian Smollett
Edition: Hardcover
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 0
From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times: Essays in Honor of Jane S. Gerber......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Jane S. Gerber: An Appreciation......Page 14
Introduction: From Catalonia to the Caribbean......Page 17
Part 1: The Medieval Mediterranean......Page 23
1 In the Beginning Was the Poem: Hebrew Prefatory Verse in Golden Age al-Andalus......Page 25
2 Some Customs of Jews in Medieval Spain......Page 43
3 Textiles Travel: The Role of Sephardim in the Transmission of Textile Forms and Designs......Page 59
4 The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Marginality and the Notion of a Mediterranean Society......Page 76
Part 2: Women of the Genizah......Page 97
5 Independent Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt: Enterprise and Ambiguity......Page 99
6 A Look at Medieval Egyptian Jewry and Environs: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah Documents......Page 116
Part 3: Italy and Western Europe......Page 131
7 The Sephardic Jewish Merchants of Venice, Port Jews, and the Road to Modernity......Page 133
8 The Merchants at the Casino: Sephardic Elites and Leisure Time in Eighteenth-Century Livorno......Page 152
9 La Jébéra et Les Confréries de la Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne au XVIIIe Siècle......Page 170
Part 4: Jews under Islam......Page 201
10 Jews in the Central Islamic Lands in the Eleventh Century......Page 203
11 The Unique Case of the Syrian-Jewish Immigrants in Egypt......Page 223
12 How Jews Became “Moroccan”......Page 234
Part 5: The Modern Experience......Page 257
13 The Trial of Joshua Montefiore and the Limits of Atlantic Jewish Inclusion......Page 259
14 The Absorption of Outsiders: Gibraltarian and North Africans in London’s Portuguese Jewish Community......Page 271
15 From Childhood to Old Age in Twenty-Four Years: The Ecole Maïmonide in Algiers, 1940–1964......Page 295
16 Millàs Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937–1938)......Page 310
Part 6: Documents: Unknown Voices......Page 325
17 “And if I Could, I Would Leave Her More”: Women’s Voices, Emotions, and Objects from the Venetian Ghetto in the Seventeenth Century......Page 327
18 Jews and Muslims in Egypt at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: Two Responsa of Ḥakham Ḥayim Capusi......Page 346
19 A Report by Franz von Dombay in 1789 on the Moroccan Court Mentioning Jewish Courtiers......Page 355
The Writings of Jane S. Gerber......Page 365
Index......Page 374
