Ten. Sephardism in Latina Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction: Through the Prism of Sepharad Modern Nationalism, Literary History, and the Impact of the Sephardic Experience 1
6. Part I. The Problem of National Particularism in German, English, and French Literature on the Jews of Spain
7. One. The Myth of Sephardic Supremacy in Nineteenth-Century Germany 35
8. Two. Writing Spanish History in Nineteenth-Century Britain 58
9. Three. “Rachel, ou l’Auto-da-fé” 91
10. Four. The Strange Career of the Abarbanels from Heine to the Holocaust 114
11. Part II. Jews and Hispanics Meet Again: Latin American Revisions of Judeo-Spanish Relations
12. Five. Sephardim and Neo-Sephardim in Latin American Literature 129
13. Six. The Life and Times of the Picaro-Converso from Spain to Latin America 143
14. Part III. Between Israel and Spain
15. Seven. Facing Sepharad, Facing Israel and Spain 169
16. Eight. Sephardic Identity and Its Discontents 189
17. Part IV. Postmodern Reimaginings of Sepharad in Francophone, Latina, and Other Transnational Literatures
18. Nine. “Le Juif Espagnol” 213
19. Ten. Sephardism in Latina Literature 235
20. Eleven. Sir Salman Rushdie Sails for India and Rediscovers Spain 256
21. Postscript. Rebecca Goldstein’s Spinoza 275
22. Notes 287
23. Selected Bibliography 345
24. Index 353