Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional accounts, the Jews of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. David Malkiel offers provocative revisions of commonly held interpretations of Jewish martyrdom in the First Crusade…
This title shows that, contrary to traditional accounts, the Jews of Western Europe in the Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. It offers revisions of commonly held interpretations of Jewish martyrdom in the First Crusade massacres, the level of obedience to rab…
"Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional accounts, the Jews of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. David Malkiel offers provocative revisions of commonly held interpretations of Jewish martyrdom in the First Crusad…
Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional historical accounts, the Jews of western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs
In 1906, Ralph Nace Cohen left the island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean for the United States. After sailing across the Atlantic, Cohen made his way to Montgomery, Alabama. Cohen was the first of hundreds of Ottoman Sephardi Jews to immigrate to the southern United Stat…
The Struggle for Sephardic-Mizrahi Autonomy chronicles the creation of a Sephardic-Mizrahi identity-literally, "Oriental" Jews-uncovering the ways that political and racial factors contributed to the emergence of this identity. My inquiry draws from an extensive body of archives…
The dissertation examines the history of the Jewish community of Tangier, Morocco, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It portrays the growth of the community from a small settlement through its independence in 1798 from the rabbinical authority o…
The thesis is the record of the first systematic attempt to collect ballads in the British Sephardic communities (in London and Manchester). Sixty-one ballad texts and fragments were collected between 1981 and 1988. The majority were collected (with their tunes) directly from in…
In the aftermath of the expulsion in 1492, the Sephardic expellees in the Ottoman Empire developed a unique interpretation of levirate marriage (yibbum), a commandment obligating the brother of a man who has died without an heir to marry the deceased's widow. Heavily influenced …
A "counter view of one of the most dangerous elements of American urban history, this graphic novel tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded, at the end of the 1960s, the notorious Ghetto Brothers gang. From the seemingly bombed-out rav…
"An engrossing and counter view of one of the most dangerous elements of American urban history, this graphic novel tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded, at the end of the 1960s, the notorious Ghetto Brothers gang. From the seemingl…
An engrossing and counter view of one of the most dangerous elements of American urban history, this graphic novel tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend who founded, at the end of the 1960s, the formidable Ghetto Brothers gang. From the seemingly bombed-out rava…
"An engrossing and counter view of one of the most dangerous elements of American urban history, this graphic novel tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded, at the end of the 1960s, the notorious Ghetto Brothers gang. From the seemingl…
Sephardi identity has meant different things at different times, but has always entailed a connection with Spain, from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. While Sephardi Jews have lived in numerous cities and towns throughout history, certain cities had a greater impact in the…
Introduces a collection of recipes that combine the cooking traditions of Judaism with the traditions from Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Turkey.
