Jewish Literatures in Spanish and Portuguese: A Comprehensive Handbook

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Jewish Literatures in Spanish and Portuguese

A Comprehensive Handbook

Edited by: Ruth Fine and Susanne Zepp

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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This volume offers a thorough introduction to Jewish world literatures in Spanish and Portuguese, which not only addresses the coexistence of cultures, but also the functions of a literary and linguistic space of negotiation in this context. From the Middle Ages to present day, the compendium explores the main Jewish chapters within Spanish- and Portuguese-language world literature, whether from Europe, Latin America, or other parts of the world. No comprehensive survey of this area has been undertaken so far. Yet only a broad focus of this kind can show how diasporic Jewish literatures have been (and are ) – while closely tied to their own traditions – deeply intertwined with local and global literary developments; and how the aesthetic praxis they introduced played a decisive, formative role in the history of literature. With this epistemic claim, the volume aims at steering clear of isolationist approaches to Jewish literatures.

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Ruth Fine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Susanne Zepp, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Ruth Fine and Susanne Zepp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I Medieval Constellations
1 Jewish and Converso History in Medieval Spain: The Castilian Case Rica Amrán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
2 The Poetry of Sefarad: Secular and Liturgical Hebrew Verse in Medieval Iberia Yehoshua Granat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
3 The kharadjāt Georg Bossong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
4 Jews and Conversos in Spanish Cancioneros and Portuguese Cancioneiros (c. 1350–1520) Óscar Perea-Rodríguez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
II Early Modern Contexts
5 1492–1700: Early Modern Iberian-Jewish Cultural History James Nelson Novoa and Carsten Wilke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
6 Converso Spectres: The Lessons and Challenges of Spanish ‘Golden Age’ Prose Juan Diego Vila Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
7 From the Iberian Peninsula into the World: Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’amore and the ‘Occidental’ Concept of Love Joachim Küpper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
8 The Literature of the Western Sephardim Harm den Boer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
9 Jews in the History and Culture of the Caribbean Margalit Bejarano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
III The Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries
10 The Iberian Diasporas in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Tamir Karkason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
11 Conversos in Colonial Hispanic America Aliza Moreno-Goldschmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353
IV The Twentieth Century
12 The Twentieth Century in Iberian and Latin American History Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373
13 Contemporary Jewish Literatures of Spain Daniela Flesler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	417
14 Mapping Twentieth Century Sephardic Literature Ilan Stavans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
15 Jewish-Brazilian Literatures Saul Kirschbaum and Berta Waldmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
16 Jewish-Mexican Literatures: Ashkenazic Tradition and Culture Verena Dolle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	475
17 Sephardic Writing in Mexico Jacobo Sefamí Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	523
18 Jewish Literatures from the Rio de la Plata Region (Twentieth Century) Saúl Sosnowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	547
V Contemporary Contexts
19 Historiography and Literary Essays on Latin American Jews in the New Millennium Leonardo Senkman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	579
20 Contemporary Jewish Narrative in Twentyfirst Century Latin America Dieter Ingenschay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	603
21 Writing Cuban Belonging through Jewish Eyes Florinda F Goldberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	627
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	645

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October 24, 2022

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9783110563795

Hardcover published on:

October 24, 2022

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110531060

Paperback published on:

June 30, 2025

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9783112215586

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678

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110563795

eBook ISBN: 9783110563795

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Romance Literary Studies; Jewish Studies; Comparative Literature; Cultural History

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Cultural and Literary Studies specialists (Romance Studies, Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies)

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