Table of Contents
Preface
PART ONE: History and Philosophy
Introduction
Norman A. Stillman
1. Sephardic Settlement in Ferrara under the House of Este
Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini
2. The Universita Degli Hebrei and the Nationi of the Venice Ghetto (1516-1630): A Reconsideration of Some Presuppositions of Contemporary Jewish Historiography
Jacqueline Genot-Bismuth
3. On the Concept of Beauty in the Philosophy of Yehudah Abrabanel
Ze'ev Levy
4. The Conventionalization of Social Bonds and the Strategies of Jewish Society in the Thirteenth Century
Schmuel Trigano
5. The Jewish Quarter and the Moroccan City
Daniel Schroeter
6. Literature as a Source for the History of Libyan Jewry During the Ottoman Period
Rachel Simon
7. A "Maskil" in Aleppo: "The Torah of Israel and the People of Israel" by Rabbi Yitzhak Dayyan (Aleppo, 5683/1923)
Zvi Zohar
8. The Periodization of the History of the New Christians and Crypto-Jews in Spanish America
Eva Alexandra Uchmany
9. Cryptojews in Rio de la Plata in the Seventeenth Century
Matilde Gini de Barnatan
PART TWO: Language and Literature
Introduction
David M. Gitlitz
10. Camilo Castelo Branco and the Portuguese Inquisition
Helen A. Shepard
11. The Inquisition and the Jew in Latin American Drama
Sandra Messinger Cypess
12. Anthroponyms in the Collection of Moroccan Sephardic Ballads
Paloma Diaz-Mas
13. "Plazeme de tus Enojos": Alfonso Alvarez de Villasandino against Alfonso Ferrandez Semuel
Carlos Mota
14. Maimonides, Al-Andalus and the Influence of the Spanish-Arabic Dialect on His Language
Joshua Blau
15. Uncovering the Origins of the Judeo-Ibero-Romance Languages
Paul Wexler
16. Problems of Transcribing Sephardic Texts into the Roman Alphabet
George K. Zucker
PART THREE: Ethnography and Folklore
Introduction
Walter P. Zenner
17. Memories of Jewish Life
Steve Siporin
18. Misogyny or Philogyny: The Case of a Judeo-Spanish Folktale
Reginetta Haboucha
19. Customs of Pregnancy and Childbirth among Sephardic and Oriental Jews
Issachar Ben-Ami
20. A Conversation in Proverbs: Judeo-Spanish Refranes in Context
Isaac Jack Levy and Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
21. Expressive Modes in the Judeo-Spanish Wedding Song
Oro Anahory-Librowicz
22. The Music of the Songs: Musical Transcriptions and Commentary of the Songs Discussed by Oro Anahory-Librowicz in "Expressive Modes in the Judeo-Spanish Wedding Song"
Judith R. Cohen
Contributors
