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Title

Sephardic studies in the university / edited by Jane S. Gerber.

Publication

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1995.

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Additional Authors

• Gerber, Jane S.
• International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization.

Description

308 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Since the 1970s the field of Jewish Studies has witnessed a remarkable growth in universities in Israel, the United States, and Europe. Hundreds of Western universities have incorporated the Jewish experience into the course offerings in established departments of religion, philosophy, history, and literature, or created new programs to reflect the growth of the field. It is paradoxical, however, that Sephardic Studies have always been unevenly represented in institutions of higher learning, for the teaching of Jewish life in the medieval world always included a natural focus on both Spain and Iraq. Spanish Jewry was the jewel of medieval Jewish civilization, and Iraq was the seedbed of rabbinic culture. Nevertheless, the teaching of Sephardic civilization was incomplete and Eurocentric, with the Jews of Islam, an ongoing entity for over a thousand years, scarcely figuring in any course offerings.".
• "Sephardic Studies in the University provides indispensible teaching aids for the introduction of Sephardic Studies, the newest branch of Jewish Studies, into the university curriculum. Internationally recognized experts in several disciplines from the United States, Canada, France, and Israel contribute bibliographical essays, university course syllabi, and teaching suggestions based upon their individual approaches to teaching the civilization of the Jews of Spain and the Muslim world in medieval and modern times. Teachers and students of Jewish civilization, Spanish history, and the Jewish-Muslim encounter will welcome this timely collaborative project of the International Center for the University teaching of Jewish Civilization and the Institute for Sephardic Studies of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Sephardim > Study and teaching (Higher)
• Jews > Study and teaching (Higher) > Spain
• Jews > Study and teaching (Higher) > Islamic countries
• Sephardim > Bibliography

Genre/Form

Bibliographies

Note

• "Published in conjunction with the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• English and French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introducing the materials of sephardic culture to contemporary Jewish studies / José Faur --- Integrating the Sephardic experience into the teaching of modern Jewish history -- Jane S. Gerber -- The Jews under Islam : from the rise of Islam to Sabbatai Zevi : a bibliographical essay / Mark R. Cohen -- A survey course in the history of the Jews of Spain : antiquity to the present / Joan Connelly Ullman -- Jews under Islam / Benjamin Braude -- An interdisciplinary approach : team teaching the history, society, and culture of medieval sephardic Jewry / Benjamin Gampel, Raymond Scheindlin -- The Jews under medieval Islam / Mark R. Cohen --
• (cont.) History of the Jews in the lands of Islam : from Muhammad to the end of the middle ages / Aron Rodrigue -- The Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain / Bernard Septimus -- History of the Jews in Spain and Portugal until 1391 / Frank Talmage -- Reconquista and convivencia in medieval Spain / Alisa M. Ginio -- Jewish civilization in medieval Spain / Norman Roth -- History of the marranos and the inquisition / Frank Talmage -- The conversos / Miriam Bodian -- Spanish Jews, marranos, and sephardic culture / David Gitlitz -- History of the Jews in the lands of Islam (modern period) / Aron Rodrigue -- Middle eastern Jews in modern times / Norman A. Stillman -- Jewish society in North Africa / Harvey Goldberg --
• (cont.) The Jews of the Arab countries / Sara Reguer -- Jews and Arabs : a comparative history / Norman A. Stillman -- Christians and Jews under Islam : a conference course / Benjamin Braude, Paula Sanders -- Medieval Jewish history : under Islam and Latin Christendom / Norman A. Stillman -- Contemporary sephardic culture and the levantine world : text, event, and interpretation / Ammiel Alcalay -- Histoire et civilisation du Judäisme séfarade : l'essor médiéval en Afrique de nord / Gérard Nahon / La diaspora séfarade, 16e-18e siècles / Gérard Nahon -- Les juifs d'Afrique du nord du 18e au 20e siècle / Richard Ayoun --
• (cont.) Recherches sur les communautés séfarades contemporaines / Gèrard Nahon -- The conversos in western europe : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Joseph Kaplan -- Communal organization in the Maghreb : eighteenth to twentieth centuries / Shalom Bar-Asher.

ISBN

0838635423 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^92055113^

OCLC

• 29878737
• SCSB-11613931

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library