Sephardism Spanish Jewish history and the modern literary imagination / [electronic resource] :
ed. by Yael Halevi-Wise.
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 360 p.) : ill.
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture .
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. .
Introduction: through the prism of Sepharad: modern nationalism, literary history, and the impact of the Sephardic experience / The myth of Sephardic supremacy in nineteenth-century Germany / Writing Spanish history in nineteenth-century Britain: the Inquisition and "the secret race" / "Rachel, ou l'Auto-da-fé": representations of Jews and the Inquisition in the French grand opera La juive (1835) / The strange career of the Abarbanels from Heine to the Holocaust / Sephardim and neo-Sephardim in Latin American literature / The life and times of the picaro-converso from Spain to Latin America / Facing Sepharad, facing Israel and Spain: Yehuda Burla and Antonio Gala's Janus profiles of national reconstitution / Sephardic identity and its discontents: the novels of A.B. Yehoshua / "Le juif espagnol": the idea of Sepharad among colonial and postcolonial Francophone Jewish writers / Sephardism in Latina literature / Sir Salman Rushdie sails for India and rediscovers Spain: postmodern constructions of Sepharad / Postscript: Rebecca Goldstein's Spinoza / Yael Halevi-Wise -- Ismar Schorsch -- Michael Ragussis -- Diana R. Hallman -- Jonathan Skolnik -- Edna Aizenberg -- Yael Halevi-Wise -- Stacy N. Beckwith -- Bernard Horn -- Judith Roumani -- Dalia Kandiyoti -- Efraim Sicher -- Yael Halevi-Wise.
"In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor"--Provided by publisher.