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New Horizons in Sephardic Studies »

Authors: Yedida K. Stillman (Editor), George K. Zucker
ISBN-13: 9780791414019, ISBN-10: 0791414019
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: July 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Yedida K. Stillman

Book Synopsis

	Preface
Pt. 1	History and Philosophy
	Introduction	1
1	Sephardic Settlement in Ferrara under the House of Este	5
2	The Universita Degli Hebrei and the Nationi of the Venice Ghetto (1516-1630): A Reconsideration of Some Presuppositions of Contemporary Jewish Historiography	15
3	On the Concept of Beauty in the Philosophy of Yehudah Abrabanel	37
4	The Conventionalization of Social Bonds and the Strategies of Jewish Society in the Thirteenth Century	45
5	The Jewish Quarter and the Moroccan City	67
6	Literature as a Source for the History of Libyan Jewry During the Ottoman Period	83
7	A "Maskil" in Aleppo: "The Torah of Israel and the People of Israel" by Rabbi Yitzhak Dayyan (Aleppo, 5683/1923)	93
8	The Periodization of the History of the New Christians and Crypto-Jews in Spanish America	109
9	Cryptojews in Rio de la Plata in the Seventeenth Century	137
Pt. 2	Language and Literature
	Introduction	149
10	Camilo Castelo Branco and the Portuguese Inquisition	153
11	The Inquisition and the Jew in Latin American Drama	161
12	Anthroponyms in the Collection of Moroccan Sephardic Ballads	173
13	"Plazeme de tus Enojos": Alfonso Alvarez de Villasandino against Alfonso Ferrandes Semuel	185
14	Maimonides, Al-Andalus and the Influence of the Spanish-Arabic Dialect on His Language	203
15	Uncovering the Origins of the Judeo-Ibero-Romance Languages	211
16	Problems of Transcribing Sephardic Texts into the Roman Alphabet	215
Pt. 3	Ethnography and Folklore
	Introduction	221
17	Memories of Jewish Life	225
18	Misogyny or Philogyny: The Case of a Judeo-Spanish Folktale	239
19	Customs of Pregnancy and Childbirth among Sephardic and Oriental Jews	253
20	A Conversation in Proverbs: Judeo-Spanish Refranes in Context	269
21	Expressive Modes in the Judeo-Spanish Wedding Song	285
22	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"	297
	Contributors	305