Sephardim and Ashkenazim: Jewish-Jewish Encounters in History and Literature

✍ Scribed by Sina Rauschenbach (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Series: Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge; 18
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Sephardic and Ashkenazic Judaism have long been studied separately. Yet, scholars are becoming ever more aware of the need to merge them into a single field of Jewish Studies. This volume opens new perspectives and bridges traditional gaps. The authors are not simply contributing to their respective fields of Sephardic or Ashkenazic Studies. Rather, they all include both Sephardic and Ashkenazic perspectives as they reflect on different aspects of encounters and reconsider traditional narratives. Subjects range from medieval and early modern Sephardic and Ashkenazic constructions of identities, influences, and entanglements in the fields of religious art, halakhah, kabbalah, messianism, and charity to modern Ashkenazic Sephardism and Sephardic admiration for Ashkenazic culture. For reasons of coherency, the contributions all focus on European contexts between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
1 Sephardim and Ashkenazim
2 Ashkenazim and Sephardim before (and after) the Modern Age
3 Creating a Visual Repertoire for the Late Medieval Haggadah
4 Early Modern Messianism between Ashkenazim and Sephardim
5 “All of the Differing Opinions of the Poskim, No One Fails to Appear”
6 Confluent and Conflictual Traditions in the Lagoon
7 Joining the Fight for Freedom
8 Kabbalah and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Amsterdam
9 Vienna
10 Max Nordau’s View on Sephardic Judaism and the Emergence of Political Zionism
Selected Bibliography
About the Authors
Index of Names