New horizons in Sephardic studies / / edited by Yedida K. Stillman and George K. Zucker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821710703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1993
• ISBN: 1-4384-2131-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies
• Altri autori (Persone): StillmanYedida Kalfon <1946-1998.>; ZuckerGeorge K. <1939->
• Disciplina: 909/.04924
• Soggetti: Sephardim - History; Jews - History; Ladino philology; Sephardim; Jews
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Content""; ""PART ONE: History and Philosophy""; ""Sephardic Settlement in Ferrara under the House of Este""; ""The Universita Degli Hebrei and the Nationi of the Venice Ghetto (1516-1630): A Reconsideration of Some Presuppositions of Contemporary Jewish Historiography""; ""On the Concept of Beauty in the Philosophy of Yehudah Abrabanel""; ""The Conventionalization of Social Bonds and the Strategies of Jewish Society in the Thirteenth Century""; ""The Jewish Quarter and the Moroccan City""""Literature as a Source for the History of Libyan Jewry During the Ottoman Period""; ""A ""Maskil"" in Aleppo: ""The Torah of Israel and the People of Israel"" by Rabbi Yitzhak Dayyan (Aleppo, 5683/1923)""; ""The Periodization of the History of the New Christians and Crypto, Jews in Spanish America""; ""Cryptojews in Rio de la Plata in the Seventeenth Century""; ""PART TWO: Language and Literature""; ""Introduction""; ""Camilo Castelo Branco and the Portuguese Inquisition""; ""The Inquisition and the Jewin Lat in American Drama""; ""The Inquisition and the Jew in Latin American Drama""""Anthroponyms in the Collection of Moroccan Sephardic Ballads""; """"Plazeme de tus Enojos"": Alfonso Alvarez de Villasandino against Alfonso Ferrandes Semuel""; ""Maimonides, Al-Andalus and the Influence of the Spanish-Arabic Dialect on His Language""; ""Uncovering the Origins of the Judeo-Ibero-Romance Languages""; ""Problems of Transcribing Sephardic Texts into the Roman Alphabet""; ""PART THREE: Ethnography and Folklore""; ""Memories of Jewish Life""; ""Misogyny or Philogyny: The Case of a Judeo, Spanish Folktale""; ""Customs of Pregnancy and Childbirth among Sephardic and Oriental Jews""""A Conversation in Proverbs: Judeo-Spanish Refranes in Context""; ""Expressive Modes in the Judeo-Spanish Wedding Song""; ""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""""; ""Back Matter""; ""Contributors""