Sephardi

Author : Julia Cohen,Sarah Stein
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0804771650

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Sephardi Lives by Julia Cohen,Sarah Stein Pdf

This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews—descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine. Reflecting Sephardi history in all its diversity, from the courtyard to the courthouse, spheres intimate, political, commercial, familial, and religious, these documents show life within these distinctive Jewish communities as well as between Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Sephardi Lives offer readers an intimate view of how Sephardim experienced the major regional and world events of the modern era—natural disasters, violence and wars, the transition from empire to nation-states, and the Holocaust. This collection also provides a vivid exploration of the day-to-day lives of Sephardi women, men, boys, and girls in the Judeo-Spanish heartland of the Ottoman Balkans and Middle East, as well as the émigré centers Sephardim settled throughout the twentieth century, including North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. The selections are of a vast range, including private letters from family collections, rabbinical writings, documents of state, memoirs and diaries, court records, selections from the popular press, and scholarship. In a single volume, Sephardi Lives preserves the cultural richness and historical complexity of a Sephardi world that is no more.

Author : Hélène Jawhara Piñer
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781644695333

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Sephardi by Hélène Jawhara Piñer Pdf

In this extraordinary cookbook, chef and scholar Hélène Jawhara-Piñer combines rich culinary history and Jewish heritage to serve up over fifty culturally significant recipes. Steeped in the history of the Sephardic Jews (Jews of Spain) and their diaspora, these recipes are expertly collected from such diverse sources as medieval cookbooks, Inquisition trials, medical treatises, poems, and literature. Original sources ranging from the thirteenth century onwards and written in Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Occitan, Italian, and Hebrew, are here presented in English translation, bearing witness to the culinary diversity of the Sephardim, who brought their cuisine with them and kept it alive wherever they went. Jawhara-Piñer provides enlightening commentary for each recipe, revealing underlying societal issues from anti-Semitism to social order. In addition, the author provides several of her own recipes inspired by her research and academic studies. Each creation and bite of the dishes herein are guaranteed to transport the reader to the most deeply moving and intriguing aspects of Jewish history. Jawhara-Piñer reminds us that eating is a way to commemorate the past.

Author : Julia Rebollo Lieberman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584659433

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Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora by Julia Rebollo Lieberman Pdf

Groundbreaking essays on Sephardic Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire and Western Sephardic communities

Author : Adriana M. Brodsky
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253023193

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Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine by Adriana M. Brodsky Pdf

“A much-needed monograph on the role of Sephardic Jews in Argentina, and . . . an important contribution to the study of Jews in Latin America overall” (Choice). At the turn of the twentieth century, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East were called Turcos (“Turks”). Seen as distinct from Ashkenazim, Sephardi Jews weren’t even identified as Jews. Yet the story of Sephardi Jewish identity has been deeply impactful on Jewish history across the world. Adriana M. Brodsky follows the history of Sephardim as they arrived in Argentina, created immigrant organizations, founded synagogues and cemeteries, and built strong ties with coreligionists around the country. Brodsky demonstrates how fragmentation based on areas of origin gave way to the gradual construction of a single Sephardi identity. This unifying identity is predicated both on Zionist identification (with the State of Israel) and “national” feelings (for Argentina), and that Sephardi Jews assumed leadership roles in national Jewish organizations once they integrated into the much larger Askenazi community. Rather than assume that Sephardi identity was fixed and unchanging, Brodsky highlights the strategic nature of this identity, constructed both from within the various Sephardi groups and from the outside, and reveals that Jewish identity must be understood as part of the process of becoming Argentine.

Author : Dario Miccoli
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253062956

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A Sephardi Sea by Dario Miccoli Pdf

A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from their country of birth for Europe, Israel, and beyond. It is a story that explores their contrasting memories of and feelings for a Sephardi Jewish world in North Africa and Egypt that is lost forever but whose echoes many still hear. Surely, some of these Jewish migrants were already familiar with their new countries of residence because of colonial ties or of Zionism, and often spoke the language. Why, then, was the act of leaving so painful and why, more than fifty years afterward, is its memory still so tangible? Dario Miccoli examines how the memories of a bygone Sephardi Mediterranean world became preserved in three national contexts—Israel, France, and Italy—where the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa and their descendants migrated and nowadays live. A Sephardi Sea exploreshow practices of memory- and heritage-making—from the writing of novels and memoirs to the opening of museums and memorials, the activities of heritage associations and state-led celebrations—has filled an identity vacuum in the three countries and helps the Jews from North Africa and Egypt to define their Jewishness in Europe and Israel today but also reinforce their connection to a vanished world now remembered with nostalgia, affection, and sadness.

Author : Henry Green,Richard Stursberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1773271539

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Sephardi Voices by Henry Green,Richard Stursberg Pdf

In the years following the founding of the State of Israel, close to a million Jews became refugees fleeing their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. State-sanctioned discrimination, violence, and political unrest brought an abrupt end to these once vibrant communities, scattering their members to the four corners of the earth. Their stories are mostly untold. Sephardi Voices: The Forgotten Exodus of the Arab Jews is a window into the experiences of these communities and their stories of survival. Through gripping first-hand accounts and stunning portrait and documentary photography, we hear on-the-ground stories of pogroms in Libya and Egypt, the burning of synagogues in Syria, the terrible Farhud in Iraq, families escaping via the great airlifts of the Magic Carpet and Operations Ezra and Nehemiah, husbands smuggled in carpets into Iran in search of wives. The authors also provide crucial historical background for these events, as well as updates on the lives of some of these Sephardi Jews who have gone on to rebuild fortunes in London and New York, write novels, and win Nobel Prizes. Sephardi Voices is at once a wide-ranging and intimate story of a large-scale catastrophe and a portrait of the vulnerability of the passage of time.

Author : Myer Bloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648680509

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Sephardi Narratives from Australia by Myer Bloom Pdf

Author : Luís Urbano Afonso,Tiago Moita
Publisher : Harvey Miller
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1909400599

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Sephardic Book Art of the 15th Century by Luís Urbano Afonso,Tiago Moita Pdf

The current volume presents ten different studies dealing with the final stages of Hebrew book art production in medieval Iberia. Ranging from the Farhi Codex, copied and illuminated in the late 14th century, to the Philadelphia Bible, copied and illuminated in Lisbon in 1496, this volume discusses a wide scope of topics related with the production, consumption and circulation of medieval decorated Hebrew manuscripts. Among the issues discussed in this volume we highlight the role played by three distinct artistic languages (Mudejar, Late Gothic and Renaissance) in the shapping of 15th century Sephardic illumination, the codicological specificity of some solutions in terms of layout and the relation between the layout of these manuscripts and Hebrew incunabula, the use of geometric decoration in scientific diagrams, or the afterlife of these manuscripts in Europe and Asia following the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia.

Author : Alisa Meyuḥas Ginio
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004279582

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Between Sepharad and Jerusalem by Alisa Meyuḥas Ginio Pdf

The history, identity and memory of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean dispersal are analysed by the author with a special reference to the Sephardi community of Jerusalem and to the political, social and cultural changes through which the speakers of Jewish-Spanish went since the turn of the nineteenth century.

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015059262264

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The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature by Ilan Stavans Pdf

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Author : Esther Benbassa,Aron Rodrigue
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0520218221

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Sephardi Jewry by Esther Benbassa,Aron Rodrigue Pdf

"Modified and updated version of a book that first appeared in Paris in 1993 under the title Juifs des Balkans ... (Editions La Decouverte)"--Acknowledgments, p. [xi].

Author : Dalia Kandiyoti
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503612440

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The Converso's Return by Dalia Kandiyoti Pdf

Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. This seemingly remote history has inspired a wave of contemporary writing involving hidden artifacts, familial whispers and secrets, and clandestine Jewish ritual practices pointing to a past that had been presumed dead and buried. The Converso's Return explores the cultural politics and literary impact of this reawakened interest in converso and crypto-Jewish history, ancestry, and identity, and asks what this fascination with lost-and-found heritage can tell us about how we relate to and make use of the past. Dalia Kandiyoti offers nuanced interpretations of contemporary fictional and autobiographical texts about crypto-Jews in Cuba, Mexico, New Mexico, Spain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey. These works not only imagine what might be missing from the historical archive but also suggest an alternative historical consciousness that underscores uncommon convergences of and solidarities within Sephardi, Christian, Muslim, converso, and Sabbatean histories. Steeped in diaspora, Sephardi, transamerican, Iberian, and world literature studies, The Converso's Return illuminates how the converso narrative can enrich our understanding of history, genealogy, and collective memory.

Author : Dalia Kandiyoti,Rina Benmayor
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800738256

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Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants by Dalia Kandiyoti,Rina Benmayor Pdf

In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation for Jews who were forced to undergo conversions or expelled from Iberia nearly half a millennia ago. Drawing on the memory of the expulsion from Sepharad, the scholarly and personal essays in Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyze the impact of reconciliation laws on descendants and contemporary forms of citizenship.

Author : Saba Soomekh
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557537287

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Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America by Saba Soomekh Pdf

Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America includes academics, artists, writers, and civic and religious leaders who contributed chapters focusing on the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience in America. Topics will address language, literature, art, diaspora identity, and civic and political engagement. When discussing identity in America, one contributor will review and explore the distinct philosophy and culture of classic Sephardic Judaism, and how that philosophy and culture represents a viable option for American Jews who seek a rich and meaningful medium through which to balance Jewish tradition and modernity. Another chapter will provide a historical perspective of Sephardi/Ashkenazi Diasporic tensions. Additionally, contributors will address the term "Sephardi" as a self-imposed, collective, "ethnic" designation that had to be learned and naturalized--and its parameters defined and negotiated--in the new context of the United States and in conversation with discussions about Sephardic identity across the globe. This volume also will look at the theme of literature, focusing on Egyptian and Iranian writers in the United States. Continuing with the Iranian Jewish community, contributors will discuss the historical and social genesis of Iranian-American Jewish participation and leadership in American civic, political, and Jewish affairs. Another chapter reviews how art is used to express Iranian Diaspora identity and nostalgia. The significance of language among Sephardi and Mizrahi communities is discussed. One chapter looks at the Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jewish population of Seattle, while another confronts the experience of Judeo-Spanish speakers in the United States and how they negotiate identity via the use of language. In addition, scholars will explore how Judeo-Spanish speakers engage in dialogue with one another from a century ago, and furthermore, how they use and modify their language when they find themselves in Spanish-speaking areas today.

Author : Devin Naar,Maureen Jackson,Laurent Mignon,Özgür Özkan,Sam Negri,Benjamin Fortna,Ty Alhadeff,Christopher Gratien,Hannah S. Pressman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6057685369

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Sephardic Trajectories by Devin Naar,Maureen Jackson,Laurent Mignon,Özgür Özkan,Sam Negri,Benjamin Fortna,Ty Alhadeff,Christopher Gratien,Hannah S. Pressman Pdf

Sephardic Trajectories brings together scholars of Ottoman history and Jewish studies to discuss how family heirlooms, papers, and memorabilia help us conceptualize the complex process of migration from the Ottoman Empire to the United States. To consider the shared significance of family archives in both the United States and in Ottoman lands, the volume takes as starting point the formation of the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection at the University of Washington, a community-led archive and the world's first major digital repository of archival documents and recordings related to the Sephardic Jews of the Mediterranean world. Contributors reflect on the role of private collections and material objects in studying the Sephardi past, presenting case studies of Sephardic music and literature alongside discussions of the role of new media, digitization projects, investigative podcasts, and family memorabilia in preserving Ottoman Sephardic culture.