A conference division and space to discuss history and culture of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewry.
David A. Wacks deposited Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the Tribunal del Alcázar in Seville, 19 February, 1388 (Spanish version) in the group
Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies on AJS Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
This unit contains a brief introduction (Spanish), edition of the original Castilian text with facing modernization and notes in Spanish, and a short bibliography.
The text is the first modernization of the medieval Castilian of Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the royal court in Seville in 1388. Martínez was a canon at the Cathedral Chapter and th…[Read more]
David A. Wacks deposited Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the Tribunal del Alcázar in Seville, 19 February, 1388 (English version) in the group
Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies on AJS Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
This unit contains a brief introduction (English), edition of the original Castilian text with facing English translation and notes, and a short bibliography.
The text is the first English translation from the medieval Castilian of Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the royal court in Seville in 1388. Martínez was a canon at the Cathedral Chapter an…[Read more]
David A. Wacks deposited Conversos e identidad in the group
Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies on AJS Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
This is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with modern Spanish introduction, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity. It includes an introduction…[Read more]
David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos (1679) (English .doc) in the group
Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies on AJS Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
This is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with Spanish introduction and notes, with the original text in Spanish. Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics (excelencias) of the Jewish people and a containing a…[Read more]
David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos in the group
Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies on AJS Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
This is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[Read more]
David A. Wacks deposited Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas by Emily Colbert Cairns in the group
Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies on AJS Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Book review of Emily Colbert Carins, Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 189 pp
David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies on AJS Commons 3 years ago
Sepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]
David A. Wacks deposited Review of Díaz-Mas, Paloma. Sephardim: The Jews from Spain. Ed. and trans. George K. Zucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. in the group
Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies on AJS Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
Review of Díaz-Mas, Paloma. Sephardim: The Jews from Spain. Ed. and trans. George K. Zucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Originally published in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 33.1 (33-34).
David A. Wacks deposited Review of Tabea Linhard, Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2014. 230pp. in the group
Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies on AJS Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
Review of Tabea Linhard’s ‘Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory’ (2016): “These essays are nothing short of a manifesto of new Spanish Jewish cultural studies, an area that has long been wanting a champion. In this sense, Jewish Spain is an exciting departure in the study of the Jewish experience and memory in modern Spain.”
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Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies on AJS Commons 5 years, 5 months ago