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Sephardism [electronic resource] : Spanish Jewish history and the modern literary imagination / ed. by Yael Halevi-Wise.

Contributor(s): Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culturePublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 360 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780804781718 (electronic bk.)
  • 0804781710 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 809/.9335846004924
LOC classification:
  • PN56.3.S47 S48 2012eb
Online resources:
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.
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"In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor"--Provided by publisher.

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.

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