The Sephardic Experience East and West: Essays in Honor of Jane S. Gerber

In: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies

Abstract

Intro -- From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times: Essays in Honor of Jane S. Gerber -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Jane S. Gerber: An Appreciation -- Introduction: From Catalonia to the Caribbean -- Part 1: The Medieval Mediterranean -- 1 In the Beginning Was the Poem: Hebrew Prefatory Verse in Golden Age al-Andalus -- 2 Some Customs of Jews in Medieval Spain -- 3 Textiles Travel: The Role of Sephardim in the Transmission of Textile Forms and Designs -- 4 The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Marginality and the Notion of a Mediterranean Society -- Part 2: Women of the Genizah -- 5 Independent Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt: Enterprise and Ambiguity -- 6 A Look at Medieval Egyptian Jewry and Environs: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah Documents -- Part 3: Italy and Western Europe -- 7 The Sephardic Jewish Merchants of Venice, Port Jews, and the Road to Modernity -- 8 The Merchants at the Casino: Sephardic Elites and Leisure Time in Eighteenth-Century Livorno -- 9 La Jébéra et Les Confréries de la Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne au XVIIIe Siècle -- Part 4: Jews under Islam -- 10 Jews in the Central Islamic Lands in the Eleventh Century -- 11 The Unique Case of the Syrian-Jewish Immigrants in Egypt -- 12 How Jews Became "Moroccan" -- Part 5: The Modern Experience -- 13 The Trial of Joshua Montefiore and the Limits of Atlantic Jewish Inclusion -- 14 The Absorption of Outsiders: Gibraltarian and North Africans in London's Portuguese Jewish Community -- 15 From Childhood to Old Age in Twenty-Four Years: The Ecole Maïmonide in Algiers, 1940-1964 -- 16 Millàs Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937-1938) -- Part 6: Documents: Unknown Voices.