Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I Sephardic Jewry in the Middle Ages Origins, Development, and Flowering
Chapter 1 A Global Perspective on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry An Introductory Essay
Chapter 2 The Origins of Sephardic Jewry in the Medieval Arab World
Chapter 3 The Judeo-Arabic Heritage
Chapter 4 Judeo-Spanish Culture in Medieval and Modern Times
Chapter 5 Literatures of Medieval Sepharad
Chapter 6 Medieval Sephardic-Oriental Jewish Bible Exegesis: The Contributions of Saadia Gaon and Abraham ibn Ezra
Chapter 7 Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah in Spain
Part II From Expulsion to the Modern Era: Exile, Decline, and Revival
Chapter 8 Hispanic Culture in Exile: Sephardic Life in the Ottoman Balkans
Chapter 9 Sephardic Jurisprudence in the Recent Half-Millennium
Chapter 10 Safed Kabbalah and the Sephardic Heritage
Chapter 11 Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire
Part III Sephardic Jewry in the Modern Era and Special Topics
Chapter 12 Early Modern Sephardim and Blacks Contact and Conflict between Two Minorities
Chapter 13 Diversity and Uniqueness An Introduction to Sephardic Liturgical Music
Chapter 14 A Double Occlusion Sephardim and the Holocaust
Chapter 15 Sephardim and Oriental Jews in Israel Rethinking the Sociopolitical Paradigm
About the Contributors
Index