| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 360 pages) : illustrations |
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture |
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction: through the prism of Sepharad: modern nationalism, literary history, and the impact of the Sephardic experience / Yael Halevi-Wise -- The myth of Sephardic supremacy in nineteenth-century Germany / Ismar Schorsch -- Writing Spanish history in nineteenth-century Britain: the Inquisition and "the secret race" / Michael Ragussis -- "Rachel, ou l'Auto-da-fé": representations of Jews and the Inquisition in the French grand opera La juive (1835) / Diana R. Hallman -- The strange career of the Abarbanels from Heine to the Holocaust / Jonathan Skolnik -- Sephardim and neo-Sephardim in Latin American literature / Edna Aizenberg -- The life and times of the picaro-converso from Spain to Latin America / Yael Halevi-Wise -- Facing Sepharad, facing Israel and Spain: Yehuda Burla and Antonio Gala's Janus profiles of national reconstitution / Stacy N. Beckwith -- Sephardic identity and its discontents: the novels of A.B. Yehoshua / Bernard Horn -- "Le juif espagnol": the idea of Sepharad among colonial and postcolonial Francophone Jewish writers / Judith Roumani -- Sephardism in Latina literature / Dalia Kandiyoti -- Sir Salman Rushdie sails for India and rediscovers Spain: postmodern constructions of Sepharad / Efraim Sicher -- Postscript: Rebecca Goldstein's Spinoza / Yael Halevi-Wise |
| Summary |
"In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sephardim in literature.
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Jews, Spanish, in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
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Jews, Spanish, in literature
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Literature, Modern
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Sephardim in literature
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Languages & Literatures.
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Literature - General.
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Sephardim.
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Literatur.
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Motiv.
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Sefarder.
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Judar i litteraturen.
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Spanien.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Halevi-Wise, Yael, 1965- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780804781718 |
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0804781710 |
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