Esther In Early Modern Iberia And The Sephardic Diaspora
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Esther In Early Modern Iberia And The Sephardic Diaspora
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Author : Emily Colbert Cairns
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-07-13
Esther In Early Modern Iberia And The Sephardic Diaspora written by Emily Colbert Cairns and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-13 with Social Science categories.
This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The biblical Esther --the Jewish woman who marries the King of Persia and saves her people -- was contested in the cultures of early modern Europe, authored as a symbol of conformity as well as resistance. At once a queen and minority figure under threat, for a changing Iberian and broader European landscape, Esther was compelling and relatable precisely because of her hybridity. She was an early modern globetrotter and border transgressor. Emily Colbert Cairns analyzes the many retellings of the biblical heroine that were composed in a turbulent early modern Europe. These narratives reveal national undercurrents where religious identity was transitional and fluid, thus problematizing the fixed notion of national identity within a particular geographic location. This volume instead proposes a model of a Sephardic nationality that existed beyond geographical borders.
Health And Healing In The Early Modern Iberian World
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Author : Margaret E. Boyle
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2021
Health And Healing In The Early Modern Iberian World written by Margaret E. Boyle and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and experiences are tied to gender.
Jewish Autonomy In A Slave Society
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Author : Aviva Ben-Ur
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2020-06-05
Jewish Autonomy In A Slave Society written by Aviva Ben-Ur and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-05 with History categories.
A fascinating portrait of Jewish life in Suriname from the 17th to 19th centuries Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname, a Dutch colony on the South American mainland just north of Brazil. Suriname was home to the most privileged Jewish community in the Americas where Jews, most of Iberian origin, enjoyed religious liberty, were judged by their own tribunal, could enter any trade, owned plantations and slaves, and even had a say in colonial governance. Aviva Ben-Ur sets the story of Suriname's Jews in the larger context of Atlantic slavery and colonialism and argues that, like other frontier settlements, they achieved and maintained their autonomy through continual negotiation with the colonial government. Drawing on sources in Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Spanish, Ben-Ur shows how, from their first permanent settlement in the 1660s to the abolition of their communal autonomy in 1825, Suriname Jews enjoyed virtually the same standing as the ruling white Protestants, with whom they interacted regularly. She also examines the nature of Jewish interactions with enslaved and free people of African descent in the colony. Jews admitted both groups into their community, and Ben-Ur illuminates the ways in which these converts and their descendants experienced Jewishness and autonomy. Lastly, she compares the Jewish settlement with other frontier communities in Suriname, most notably those of Indians and Maroons, to measure the success of their negotiations with the government for communal autonomy. The Jewish experience in Suriname was marked by unparalleled autonomy that nevertheless developed in one of the largest slave colonies in the New World.
Jewish Women
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Author : Katharina Galor
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-12-15
Jewish Women written by Katharina Galor and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-15 with Social Science categories.
Jewish Women: Between Conformity and Agency examines the concepts of gender and sexuality through the primary lens of visual and material culture from antiquity through to the present day. The backbone of this transhistorical and transcontextual study is the question of Jewish women’s agency in four different geographical, chronological, and methodological contexts, beginning with women’s dress codes in Roman-Byzantine Syro-Palestine, continuing with rituals of purity in medieval Ashkenaz, worship in papal Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin, and ending with marriage and divorce in Israeli film. Each of these explorations is interested in creating a dialogue between the patriarchal legacy of the traditional texts and the chronologically corresponding visual and material culture. The author challenges traditional approaches to the study of Jewish culture by employing tools from art history, archaeology, and film and media studies. In each of these different contexts, there is ample evidence that women—despite persistent overall structural discrimination—have found ways to challenge male constructs of gender norms. Ultimately, these examples from past and present times highlight women’s eminence in shaping Jewish history and culture. Bringing a new interdisciplinary lens to the study of the history of gender and sexuality, the book will be of interest to students and researchers of Jewish history and culture, art history, archaeology, and film studies.
The Book Of Esther In Modern Research
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Author : Leonard Jay Greenspoon
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2003-01-01
The Book Of Esther In Modern Research written by Leonard Jay Greenspoon and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Religion categories.
The proceedings of a symposium entitled Esther 2000 held in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska in April 2000, the book contains a collection of essays that engages all aspects of the biblical book of Esther. From questions of textual criticism to the history of rabbinic interpretation to speculation on the modern form of commentary, this collection is sure to contain something for everyone interested in the book of Esther. Contributors include such well-known Esther scholars as Michael Fox, David Clines, and Carey Moore.
Double Diaspora In Sephardic Literature
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Author : David A. Wacks
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-11
Double Diaspora In Sephardic Literature written by David A. Wacks and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-11 with History categories.
The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven experiences of diaspora: first from the Biblical homeland Zion and later from the ancestral hostland, Sefarad. Jewish in Spain and Spanish abroad, these writers negotiated Jewish, Spanish, and diasporic idioms to produce a uniquely Sephardic perspective. Wacks brings Diaspora Studies into dialogue with medieval and early modern Sephardic literature for the first time.
Esther In Diaspora
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Author : Tsaurayi Kudakwashe Mapfeka
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-06-17
Esther In Diaspora written by Tsaurayi Kudakwashe Mapfeka and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-17 with Religion categories.
In Esther in Diaspora, Tsaurayi Kudakwashe Mapfeka utilises a theory-nuanced concept of diaspora to offer a new way of reading Esther, in the process, critiquing the traditional view that has relied on its close association with Purim.
Sephardi Family Life In The Early Modern Diaspora
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Author : Julia Rebollo Lieberman
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2010-12-14
Sephardi Family Life In The Early Modern Diaspora written by Julia Rebollo Lieberman and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-14 with History categories.
Groundbreaking essays on Sephardic Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire and Western Sephardic communities
Jews Christians And Muslims In Medieval And Early Modern Times
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-03-27
Jews Christians And Muslims In Medieval And Early Modern Times written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with History categories.
This volume brings together articles on various aspects of cultural, religious, social and commercial interactions between Jews, Christians and Muslims in the medieval and early modern periods.
The Familiarity Of Strangers
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Author : Francesca Trivellato
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
The Familiarity Of Strangers written by Francesca Trivellato and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in regions near and far in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Francesca Trivellato tests assumptions about ethnic and religious trading diasporas and networks of exchange and trust. Her extensive research in international archives--including a vast cache of merchants' letters written between 1704 and 1746--reveals a more nuanced view of the business relations between Jews and non-Jews across the Mediterranean, Atlantic Europe, and the Indian Ocean than ever before. The book argues that cross-cultural trade was predicated on and generated familiarity among strangers, but could coexist easily with religious prejudice. It analyzes instances in which business cooperation among coreligionists and between strangers relied on language, customary norms, and social networks more than the progressive rise of state and legal institutions.