Title: Sephardic identity : essays on a vanishing Jewish culture /
Authors: Zucker, George K., 1939-
Publisher: McFarland & Co.,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Sephardim History; Sephardim Intellectual life.; Jews Civilization.; Jews Identity.
Abstract: "These essays are divided into sections exploring history, sociology, anthropology, language, literature, and the performing arts. An introduction to Sephardism begins the work and a conclusion discusses the Sephardic Education Center, which hopes to assure the culture's future"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Sephardic scholarship : a personal journey / Isaac Jack Lävy -- Are the Sephardim Jews or Judaized Arabs, Berbers and Iberians? / Paul Wexler -- Iberian exiles in the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire / Abraham David -- A surreptitious tolerance : Jews, Muslims and Christians in the southern Balearic Islands / Gloria Mound -- Assimilation and identity in Spain, Portugal, and their colonies / Eva Alexandra Uchmany -- Sephardic remnants in Ioannina / Annette B. Fromm -- The power of speech among the Sephardim / Rosemary Lävy Zumwalt -- What language did the Jews speak in pre-expulsion Spain? / Tracy K. Harris -- Don Isaac Abravanel on exile and redemption / Moshe Hallamish -- Judaic motifs and religious inclinations in Romance al divín mártir, Judá Creyente by Antonio Enræquez Gùmez (1600-1663) / Nechama Kramer-Hellinx -- Sebastian de Horozco (1510-1580), the ambivalent anti-Semitic Converso / Jack Weiner -- The Judeo-Spanish press in Salonika : from glory to destruction / Yitzchak Kerem -- The allure of Sepharad / Edna Aizenberg -- Is Sephardic dance too sexy? / Judith Brin Ingber -- Sephardic vocal music and the tape recorder : new life or the end of an oral tradition? / David Harris -- The mediaization of Judeo-Spanish song / Judith Cohen -- The Sephardic education center : crisis of identity and assimilation in modern American Judaism / Michael M. Laskier.