Matthias B. Lehmann, Jessica M. Marglin

Jews and the Mediterranean (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A selection of essays examining the significance of what Jewish history and Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of the other. Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Ashkenazi Jews meet in the Mediterranean region. By focusing on the specificity of the Jewish experience, the essays gathered in this volume emphasize human agency and culture over the length of Mediterranean history. This collection draws attention to what made Jewish people distinctive and warns against facile notions of Mediterranean connectivity, diversity, fluidity, and hybridity, presenting a new assessment of the Jewish experience in the Mediterranean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 237
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253048004
• Artikelnr.: 59265625

Autorenporträt

Matthias Lehmann is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he holds the Teller Family Chair in Jewish History. He is author of Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture, Emissaries from the Holy Land, and (with John Efron and Steve Weitzman) The Jews: A History.

Jessica Marglin is Assistant Professor of Religion and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. She is author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Jewish History in the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean in
Jewish History / Jessica Marglin and Matthias Lehmann
1. Globalization or Culture: The Ancient Jews and the Mediterranean / Seth
Schwartz
2. The New Melting Pot? Mediterraneanism and the Study of Jewish History /
Jonathan Ray
3. Can we Speak of a Geographical Axis in Medieval Jewish Culture? / Andrew
Berns
4. Jews and the Early Modern Mediterranean Slave Trade / Daniel Hershenzon
5. Religious Boundaries in Italy during an Era of Free Trade, 1550-1750:
The Case of Livorno / Corey Tazzara
6. A Father's Consolation: Intra-Cultural Ties and Religion in a
Trans-Mediterranean Jewish Commercial Network / Francesca Bregoli
7. Soap and the Making of a Short Distance Network in the
Nineteenth-Century Adriatic / Constanze Kolbe
8. A Guide to the Jewish Mediterranean: Le Guide Sam and the Shaping of an
Interwar Mediterranean Diaspora / Devi Mays
9. A New Myth of Coexistence? The Jewish Mediterranean Dream and the Three
Ages of Nostalgia / Clémence Boulouque
Index