Sephardism
Subtitle: Spanish Jewish history and the modern literary imagination
By: edited by Yael Halevi-Wise
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture; Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780804777469
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Sephardim in literature; History and criticism; Jews, Spanish, in literature; Modern Literature
Description: Here, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor. Since the 19th century, this metaphor has occurred frequently in works by authors from a variety of ethnicities, religions, and nationalities in Europe, the Americas, North Africa, Israel, and even India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : through the prism of Sepharad : modern nationalism, literary history, and the impact of the Sephardic experience / Yael Halevi-Wise; title: The myth of Sephardic supremacy in nineteenth-century Germany / Ismar Schorsch; title: Writing Spanish history in nineteenth-century Britain : the Inquisition and "the secret race" / Michael Ragussis; title: "Rachel, ou l'Auto-da-fé" : representations of Jews and the Inquisition in the French grand opera La juive (1835) / Diana R. Hallman; title: The strange career of the Abarbanels from Heine to the Holocaust / Jonathan Skolnik; title: Sephardim and neo-Sephardim in Latin American literature / Edna Aizenberg; title: The life and times of the picaro-converso from Spain to Latin America / Yael Halevi-Wise; title: Facing Sepharad, facing Israel and Spain : Yehuda Burla and Antonio Gala's Janus profiles of national reconstitution / Stacy N. Beckwith; title: Sephardic identity and its discontents : the novels of A.B. Yehoshua / Bernard Horn; title: "Le juif espagnol" : the idea of Sepharad among colonial and postcolonial Francophone Jewish writers / Judith Roumani; title: Sephardism in Latina literature / Dalia Kandiyoti; title: Sir Salman Rushdie sails for India and rediscovers Spain : postmodern constructions of Sepharad / Efraim Sicher; title: Postscript : Rebecca Goldstein's Spinoza / Yael Halevi-Wise.