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Groundbreaking essays on Sephardic Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire and Western Sephardic communities

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PublisherBrandeis University Press

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ISBN-139781584659570

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Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora

Publication Year2010

SubjectGenealogy & Heraldry, Women's Studies, Jewish, Jewish Studies

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Subject AreaRéférence, History, Social Science

AuthorTirsah Levie Bernfeld

SeriesHbi Series on Jewish Women Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight16.2 Oz

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LCCN2010-035171

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Reviews"[A]n invaluable resource for both students and experienced researchers studying early modern Jewry, the Sephardic diasporic experience, or Jewish family life."- AJS Review, Having escaped the Inquisition, many Sephardic Jews were by the beginning of the 16th century already scattered throughout a variety of locations in Asia, Africa, and Europe. And, as we know from more recent immigrations, it isn't always easy for newcomers to get along with the local bigwigs who have their own established ideas about how to run things. The six academic essays collected by Julia Lieberman in Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora explore the day-to-day lives of these far-flung Jews as their practices and traditions clashed with those of the Jews who were their new neighbors in the Ottoman empire., "[An invaluable resource for both students and experienced researchers studying early modern Jewry, the Sephardic diasporic experience, or Jewish family life."--AJS Review, "Having escaped the Inquisition, many Sephardic Jews were by the beginning of the 16th century already scattered throughout a variety of locations in Asia, Africa, and Europe. And, as we know from more recent immigrations, it isn't always easy for newcomers to get along with the local bigwigs who have their own established ideas about how to run things. The six academic essays collected by Julia Lieberman in Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora explore the day-to-day lives of these far-flung Jews as their practices and traditions clashed with those of the Jews who were their new neighbors in the Ottoman empire."--Tablet Magazine, [A]n invaluable resource for both students and experienced researchers studying early modern Jewry, the Sephardic diasporic experience, or Jewish family life., "[T]he articles in Sephardi Family Life are all fascinating, drawing on a range of source materials (Halakhic responsa, Inquisition records, communal archives) and disciplinary approaches. . . . The lives of ordinary people, especially women and children, emerge from these articles in flashes of clarity, allowing the reader glimpses of what is usually lost to historical memory."--Jewish Book Word, "The voices that come alive in Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora beat down the tiresome impulse to prove history relevant. Instead, the six excellent and painstakingly researched scholarly papers, edited by Julia R. Lieberman, prove their worth in a better way: They tell stories that reveal how besieged societies strain to hold on to their traditions and to civilized life."--Forward, "Having escaped the Inquisition, many Sephardic Jews were by the beginning of the 16th century already scattered throughout a variety of locations in Asia, Africa, and Europe. And, as we know from more recent immigrations, it isn't always easy for newcomers to get along with the local bigwigs who have their own established ideas about how to run things. The six academic essays collected by Julia Lieberman in Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora explore the day-to-day lives of these far-flung Jews as their practices and traditions clashed with those of the Jews who were their new neighbors in the Ottoman empire."- Tablet Magazine, "Having escaped the Inquisition, many Sephardic Jews were by the beginning of the 16th century already scattered throughout a variety of locations in Asia, Africa, and Europe. And, as we know from more recent immigrations, it isn't always easy for newcomers to get along with the local bigwigs who have their own established ideas about how to run things. The six academic essays collected by Julia Lieberman in Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora explore the day-to-day lives of these far-flung Jews as their practices and traditions clashed with those of the Jews who were their new neighbors in the Ottoman empire."-Tablet Magazine, "[T]he articles in Sephardi Family Life are all fascinating, drawing on a range of source materials (Halakhic responsa, Inquisition records, communal archives) and disciplinary approaches. . . . The lives of ordinary people, especially women and children, emerge from these articles in flashes of clarity, allowing the reader glimpses of what is usually lost to historical memory." 'Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora moves our knowledge of early modern Jewish women and families forward by a significant step. . . . [It] contributes to a new image of the late medieval and early modern Sephardi world not only as religiously complex, but also as a fully lived, idiosyncratic, and deeply human culture."- Jewish Book Word, "The voices that come alive in Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora beat down the tiresome impulse to prove history relevant. Instead, the six excellent and painstakingly researched scholarly papers, edited by Julia R. Lieberman, prove their worth in a better way: They tell stories that reveal how besieged societies strain to hold on to their traditions and to civilized life."ÑForward, "The voices that come alive in "Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora" beat down the tiresome impulse to prove history relevant. Instead, the six excellent and painstakingly researched scholarly papers, edited by Julia R. Lieberman, prove their worth in a better way: They tell stories that reveal how besieged societies strain to hold on to their traditions and to civilized life." --Forward, "The voices that come alive in Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora beat down the tiresome impulse to prove history relevant. Instead, the six excellent and painstakingly researched scholarly papers, edited by Julia R. Lieberman, prove their worth in a better way: They tell stories that reveal how besieged societies strain to hold on to their traditions and to civilized life."- Forward, "[An invaluable resource for both students and experienced researchers studying early modern Jewry, the Sephardic diasporic experience, or Jewish family life."-AJS Review, "[A]n invaluable resource for both students and experienced researchers studying early modern Jewry, the Sephardic diasporic experience, or Jewish family life."--AJS Review, "[A]n invaluable resource for both students and experienced researchers studying early modern Jewry, the Sephardic diasporic experience, or Jewish family life."ÑAJS Review, "The voices that come alive in Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora beat down the tiresome impulse to prove history relevant. Instead, the six excellent and painstakingly researched scholarly papers, edited by Julia R. Lieberman, prove their worth in a better way: They tell stories that reveal how besieged societies strain to hold on to their traditions and to civilized life."-Forward, "[A]n invaluable resource for both students and experienced researchers studying early modern Jewry, the Sephardic diasporic experience, or Jewish family life."-AJS Review, "[T]he articles in Sephardi Family Life are all fascinating, drawing on a range of source materials (Halakhic responsa, Inquisition records, communal archives) and disciplinary approaches. . . . The lives of ordinary people, especially women and children, emerge from these articles in flashes of clarity, allowing the reader glimpses of what is usually lost to historical memory." 'Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora moves our knowledge of early modern Jewish women and families forward by a significant step. . . . [It] contributes to a new image of the late medieval and early modern Sephardi world not only as religiously complex, but also as a fully lived, idiosyncratic, and deeply human culture.", The voices that come alive in Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora beat down the tiresome impulse to prove history relevant. Instead, the six excellent and painstakingly researched scholarly papers, edited by Julia R. Lieberman, prove their worth in a better way: They tell stories that reveal how besieged societies strain to hold on to their traditions and to civilized life., "[T]he articles in Sephardi Family Life are all fascinating, drawing on a range of source materials (Halakhic responsa, Inquisition records, communal archives) and disciplinary approaches. . . . The lives of ordinary people, especially women and children, emerge from these articles in flashes of clarity, allowing the reader glimpses of what is usually lost to historical memory." 'Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora moves our knowledge of early modern Jewish women and families forward by a significant step. . . . [It] contributes to a new image of the late medieval and early modern Sephardi world not only as religiously complex, but also as a fully lived, idiosyncratic, and deeply human culture."--Jewish Book Word, "Having escaped the Inquisition, many Sephardic Jews were by the beginning of the 16th century already scattered throughout a variety of locations in Asia, Africa, and Europe. And, as we know from more recent immigrations, it isn't always easy for newcomers to get along with the local bigwigs who have their own established ideas about how to run things. The six academic essays collected by Julia Lieberman in Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora (UPNE, December) explore the day-to-day lives of these far-flung Jews as their practices and traditions clashed with those of the Jews who were their new neighbors in the Ottoman empire." --Tablet Magazine, "The volume is thus an invaluable resource for both students and experienced researchers studying early modern Jewry, the Sephardic diasporic experience, or Jewish family life."--AJS Review, "[T]he articles in Sephardi Family Life are all fascinating, drawing on a range of source materials (Halakhic responsa, Inquisition records, communal archives) and disciplinary approaches. . . . The lives of ordinary people, especially women and children, emerge from these articles in flashes of clarity, allowing the reader glimpses of what is usually lost to historical memory." 'Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora moves our knowledge of early modern Jewish women and families forward by a significant step. . . . [It] contributes to a new image of the late medieval and early modern Sephardi world not only as religiously complex, but also as a fully lived, idiosyncratic, and deeply human culture."-Jewish Book Word

Target AudienceScholarly & Professional

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.8924

Lc Classification NumberDs135.T8s426 2010

Table of ContentForeword * Preface * Introduction: What is a Family? * Reconstructing Sephardi Family Life in the Ottoman Empire: The Exiles of 1492 * Communal Pride and Feminine Virtue: "Suspecting Sivlonot" in the Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire in the Early Sixteenth Century - Hannah Davidson * Mothers and Children as Seen by Sixteenth-Century Rabbis in the Ottoman Empire - Ruth Lamdan * Western Sephardi Households: Women, Children, and Life-Cycle Events * Religious Space, Gender, and Power in the Sephardi Diaspora: The Return to Judaism of New Christian Men and Women in Livorno and Pisa - Cristina Galasso * Childhood and Family among the Western Sephardim in the Seventeenth Century - Julia R. Lieberman * Sephardi Women in Holland's Golden Age - Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld * Judeoconverso Families in the Diaspora: Cultural Commuting between Christianity and Judaism * Researching the Childhood of "New Jews" of the Western Sephardi Diaspora in Light of Recent Historiography - David Graizbord * Glossary * List of Abbreviations * Bibliography * Contributors * Index

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HBI Series on Jewish Women Ser.: Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora by Tirsah Levie Bernfeld (2010, Trade Paperback)