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1 online resource (377 pages) |
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Brill's Series in Jewish Studies |
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Brill's series in Jewish studies.
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| Contents |
Intro; From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times: Essays in Honor of Jane S. Gerber; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Jane S. Gerber: An Appreciation; Introduction: From Catalonia to the Caribbean; Part 1: The Medieval Mediterranean; 1 In the Beginning Was the Poem: Hebrew Prefatory Verse in Golden Age al-Andalus; 2 Some Customs of Jews in Medieval Spain; 3 Textiles Travel: The Role of Sephardim in the Transmission of Textile Forms and Designs; 4 The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Marginality and the Notion of a Mediterranean Society |
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Part 2: Women of the Genizah5 Independent Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt: Enterprise and Ambiguity; 6 A Look at Medieval Egyptian Jewry and Environs: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah Documents; Part 3: Italy and Western Europe; 7 The Sephardic Jewish Merchants of Venice, Port Jews, and the Road to Modernity; 8 The Merchants at the Casino: Sephardic Elites and Leisure Time in Eighteenth-Century Livorno; 9 La Jébéra et Les Confréries de la Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne au XVIIIe Siècle; Part 4: Jews under Islam |
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10 Jews in the Central Islamic Lands in the Eleventh Century11 The Unique Case of the Syrian-Jewish Immigrants in Egypt; 12 How Jews Became "Moroccan"; Part 5: The Modern Experience; 13 The Trial of Joshua Montefiore and the Limits of Atlantic Jewish Inclusion; 14 The Absorption of Outsiders: Gibraltarian and North Africans in London's Portuguese Jewish Community; 15 From Childhood to Old Age in Twenty-Four Years: The Ecole Maïmonide in Algiers, 1940-1964; 16 Millàs Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937-1938); Part 6: Documents: Unknown Voices |
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17 "And if I Could, I Would Leave Her More": Women's Voices, Emotions, and Objects from the Venetian Ghetto in the Seventeenth Century18 Jews and Muslims in Egypt at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: Two Responsa of Ḥakham Ḥayim Capusi; 19 A Report by Franz von Dombay in 1789 on the Moroccan Court Mentioning Jewish Courtiers; The Writings of Jane S. Gerber; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Mirvis, Stanley
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Smollett, Brian
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| ISBN |
9789004376717 |
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9004376712 |
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