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German Jewry and the allure of the Sephardic /

"In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Efron, John M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies Supplement.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The Sound of Jewish Modernity: Sephardic Hebrew and the Berlin Haskalah
  • Chapter Two. "Castilian Pride and Oriental Dignity": Sephardic Beauty in the Eye of the Ashkenazic Beholder
  • Chapter Three. Of Minarets and Menorahs: The Building of Oriental Synagogues
  • Chapter Four. Pleasure Reading: Sephardic Jews and the German-Jewish Literary Imagination
  • Chapter Five. Writing Jewish History: The Construction of a Glorious Sephardic Past
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.