A conference division and space to discuss history and culture of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewry.
David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos in the group
Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies on AJS Commons 1 week agoThis 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]
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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 6 months, 2 weeks agoBook review of Emily Colbert Carins, Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 189 pp
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David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies on AJS Commons 8 months, 3 weeks agoSepharadim 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]
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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 2 years, 7 months agoReview 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).
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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 2 years, 7 months agoReview 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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