03435nam 2200721 a 450 991045223510332120200520144314.01-282-07840-297866120784080-253-11695-3(CKB)1000000000485097(EBL)334270(OCoLC)476140947(SSID)ssj0000175867(PQKBManifestationID)11165750(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000175867(PQKBWorkID)10204311(PQKB)11449197(MiAaPQ)EBC334270(OCoLC)216934752(MdBmJHUP)muse16779(Au-PeEL)EBL334270(CaPaEBR)ebr10217785(CaONFJC)MIL207840(EXLCZ)99100000000048509720061116d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIberian Jewish literature[electronic resource] between al-Andalus and Christian Europe /Jonathan P. DecterBloomington Indiana University Pressc20071 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-34913-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-296) and index.Space : landscape and transition -- Form : varieties of lamentation and estrangement -- Imagery : the protean garden -- Context : imagining Hebrew fiction between Arabic and European sources -- Structure : literature in transition -- Voice : maqāma and morality -- Space : landscape, geography, and transition -- Conclusion : Out of the garden.This stimulating and graceful book explores Iberian Jewish attitudes toward cultural transition during the 12th and 13th centuries, when growing intolerance toward Jews in Islamic al-Andalus and the southward expansion of the Christian Reconquista led to the relocation of Jews from Islamic to Christian domains. By engaging literary topics such as imagery, structure, voice, landscape, and geography, Jonathan P. Decter traces attitudes toward transition that range from tenacious longing for the Islamic pHebrew poetry, MedievalSpainAndalusiaHistory and criticismHebrew poetry, MedievalSpainHistory and criticismJewish religious poetry, HebrewSpainAndalusiaHistory and criticismJewish religious poetry, HebrewSpainHistory and criticismJewsSpainAndalusiaIntellectual lifeJewsSpainIntellectual lifeAndalusia (Spain)In literatureSpainIn literatureElectronic books.Hebrew poetry, MedievalHistory and criticism.Hebrew poetry, MedievalHistory and criticism.Jewish religious poetry, HebrewHistory and criticism.Jewish religious poetry, HebrewHistory and criticism.JewsIntellectual life.JewsIntellectual life.892.4/1209384Decter Jonathan P.1971-930013MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452235103321Iberian Jewish literature2293068UNINA