Between Sepharad and Jerusalem : history, identity and memory of the Sephardim /

Between Sepharad and Jerusalem : history, identity and memory of the Sephardim /

Sephardim are the descendants of the Jews expelled from the lands of the Iberian Peninsula in the years 1492-1498, who settled down in the Mediterranean basin. The identifying sign of the Sephardim has been, until the middle of the twentieth century, the language known as Jewish-Spanish. The history...

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Main Author: Meyuhas Ginio, Alisa, 1937- (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Series: The Iberian Religious World 1.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262492.

Subjects:

Meyuḥas family.
Sephardim > History.
Jewish diaspora > History.
Ladino literature > History and criticism.
Ladino language > History.
Spain > Ethnic relations.

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Call Number: DS134 .M49 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Who is a Sephardi?
  • 1 From Expulsion to Revival
  • 2 The Meʿam Loʿez: The Masterpiece of Ladino Literature (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)
  • 3 Immigrants in the Land of Their Birth: The Sephardi ­Community in Jerusalem. The Test Case of the Meyuḥas Family
  • 4 Beautiful Damsels and Men of Valor: Ladino Literature Giving Us a Peek into the Spiritual World of Sephardi Women in Jerusalem (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries)
  • 5 The Spanish Senator Dr. Ángel Pulido Fernández and the "Spaniards without a Homeland", Speakers of Jewish Spanish
  • 6 The Lost Identity of the Sephardim in The Land of Israel and the State of Israel
  • Epilogue: History in the Eyes of the Beholder
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Rerum
  • Index Personarum.