Crisis and creativity in the Sephardic world, 1391-1648 / edited by Benjamin R. Gampel.

Other author Gampel, Benjamin R.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxvi, 413 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Sephardim--History. --Congresses.
Sephardim--Intellectual life. --Congresses.

Contents Exile and expulsion in Jewish history / Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi -- Secular Hebrew poetry in fifteenth-century Spain / Raymond P. Scheindlin -- 1492: a house divided / Seymour Feldman -- On converso and marrano ethnicity / Thomas F. Glick -- Order of the expulsion from Spain: antecedents, causes, and textual analysis / Haim Beinart -- Expulsion or integration? the Portuguese Jewish problem / Maria José Pimenta Ferro Tavares -- The exiles of 1492 in the kingdom of Navarre: a biographical perspective / Benjamin R. Gampel -- The self-definition of the Sephardic Jews of Western Europe and their relation to the alien and the stranger / Yosef Kaplan -- Prototypes of leadership in a Sephardic community: Smyrna in the seventeenth century / Jacob Barnai -- Sephardic refugees in Ferrara: two notable families / Renata Segre -- Encounters between Spanish and Italian Kabbalists in the generation of the expulsion / Moshe Idel -- The ultimate end of human life in postexpulsion philosophic literature / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Hebrew manuscripts and printed books among the Sephardim before and after the expulsion / Menahem Schmelzer -- a converso best-seller: Celestina and her foreign offspring / Dwayne E. Carpenter -- Sephardic ceremonial art: continuity in the diaspora / Vivian B. Mann.
General notePapers presented at a conference held in Nov., 1992.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-395) and index.
LCCN 97013685
ISBN0231109229 (alk. paper)
ISBN0231109237 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks DS134 .C75 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold