{"product_id":"from-catalonia-to-the-caribbean-the-sephardic-orbit-from-medieval-to-modern-times-essays-in-honor-of-jane-s-gerber-9789004376700","title":"From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times: Essays in Honor of Jane S. Gerber","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times is a polyphonic collection of essays in honor of Jane S. Gerber’s contributions as a leading scholar and teacher. Each chapter presents new or underappreciated source materials or questions familiar historical models to expand our understanding of Sephardic cultural, intellectual, and social history. The subjects of this volume are men and women, rich and poor, connected to various Sephardic Diasporas—Spanish, Portuguese, North African, or Middle Eastern—from medieval to modern times. They each, in their own way, challenged the expectations of their societies and helped to define the religious, ethnic, and intellectual experience of Sephardim as well as surrounding cultures throughout the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors  Jane S. Gerber: An Appreciation   Brian M. Smollett\u0026gt;  Introduction: From Catalonia to the Caribbean   Federica Francesconi and Stanley Mirvis\u0026gt;    Part 1: The Medieval Mediterranean  1 In the Beginning Was the Poem: Hebrew Prefatory Verse in Golden Age al-Andalus    Maud Kozodoy\u0026gt;  2 Some Customs of Jews in Medieval Spain     Norman Roth\u0026gt;  3 Textiles Travel: The Role of Sephardim in the Transmission of Textile Forms and Designs     Vivian B. Mann\u0026gt;  4 The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Marginality and the Notion of a Mediterranean Society     Jonathan Ray\u0026gt;    Part 2: Women of the Genizah  5 Independent Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt: Enterprise and Ambiguity     Judith R. Baskin\u0026gt;  6 A Look at Medieval Egyptian Jewry and Environs: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah Documents     Renée Levine Melammed\u0026gt;    Part 3: Italy and Western Europe  7 The Sephardic Jewish Merchants of Venice, Port Jews, and the Road to Modernity     Benjamin Ravid\u0026gt;  8 The Merchants at the Casino: Sephardic Elites and Leisure Time in Eighteenth-Century Livorno     Francesca Bregoli\u0026gt;  9 LaJébéra et Les Confréries de la Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne au XVIIIe Siècle     Gérard Nahon ל״ז\u0026gt;    Part 4: Jews under Islam  10 Jews in the Central Islamic Lands in the Eleventh Century     D.G. Tor\u0026gt;  11 Syrian-Jewish Emigration to Egypt     Yaron Harel\u0026gt;  12 How Jews Became “Moroccan”     Daniel J. Schroeter\u0026gt;    Part 5: The Modern Experience  13 The Trial of Joshua Montefiore and the Limits of Atlantic Jewish Inclusion     Stanley Mirvis\u0026gt;  14 The Absorption of Outsiders: Gibraltarian and North Africans in London’s Portuguese Jewish Community     Aviva Ben-Ur\u0026gt;  15 From Childhood to Old Age in Twenty-Four Years: The Ecole Maïmonide in Algiers, 1940–1964     Jessica Hammerman\u0026gt;  16 Millàs Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937–1938)     Thomas F. Glick\u0026gt;    Part 6: Documents: Unknown Sephardic Voices  17 “And if I Could, I Would Leave Her More”: Women’s Voices, Emotions, and Objects from the Venetian Ghetto in the Seventeenth Century     Federica Francesconi\u0026gt;  18 Jews and Muslims in Egypt at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: Two Responsa of Ḥakham Ḥayim Capusi     Matt Goldish\u0026gt;  19 A Report by Franz von Dombay in 1789 on the Moroccan Court Mentioning Jewish Courtiers     Norman (Noam) A. Stillman\u0026gt;    The Writings of Jane S. Gerber     Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210756972887,"sku":"9789004376700","price":248.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-catalonia-to-the-caribbean-the-sephardic-orbit-from-medieval-to-modern-times-essays-in-honor-of-jane-s-gerber-9789004376700","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}