Research Catalog

Title

Voices in exile : a study in Sephardic intellectual history / by Marc D. Angel.

Author

Angel, Marc.

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : KTAV Pub. House ; New York, N.Y. : in association with Sephardic House, 1991.

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Details

Description

ix, 237 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Examines the intellectual life of Sephardic Jewry from the Spanish expulsion in 1492 through the first half of the 20th century. Discusses the background to the expulsion from Spain, the Jews' tribulations, and their reactions - the effort to understand the meaning of their suffering. Deals with the Converso phenomenon and the problems they encountered. Describes rationalist and anti-rationalist thought following the expulsion, and the messianic movements which arose. Pp. 144-149 discuss the blood libels in Damascus and Rhodes in 1840 and the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara in 1858, and the Jewish organizations which were established to aid persecuted Jews (e.g. B'nai B'rith, Alliance Israélite Universelle).

Series Statement

The Library of Sephardic history and thought

Uniform Title

Library of Sephardic history and thought.

Subject

• Judaism > History
• Sephardim > Intellectual life
• Judaism
• Sephardim > Intellectual life
• Geistesgeschichte
• Judaism > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-232) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgements pt.1 Expulsion pt.2 Reactions to the Expulsion pt.3 The Conversos pt.4 Return and Reconciliation pt.5 The Era of Sabbatai Sevi pt. 6 The Promised Land: Maintaining a Dream pt.7 The Folk Mind and Spirit pt. 8 Musar: Ethics and Moral Guidance pt.9 Acceptance and Rebellion pt. 10 Sephardic Haskalah pt. 11 Secular Sephardic Literature pt. 12 Religious Responses to Modernity pt. 13 Israel and the Nations Epilogue.

ISBN

• 0881253707
• 9780881253702

LCCN

90024764

OCLC

• ocm22811724
• 22811724
• SCSB-1911145

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library