Between Sepharad and Jerusalem : History, Identity and Memory of the Sephardim.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Who is a Sephardi? -- Jerusalem Once upon a Time -- Who is a Sephardi? -- The Language of the Sephardim -- Conclusion -- Chapter 1 -- From Expulsion to Revival -- The Expulsion from Spain -- To Where did the Exiled Turn to Go? -- Portugal -- Navarre -- North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya -- Italy -- The Ottoman Empire -- Leaders of the Sephardi Communities in the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth Century -- Jerusalem -- Safed -- Tiberias -- Hebron -- The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries -- The Turkish Republic -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 -- The Meʿam Loʿez: The Masterpiece of Ladino Literature (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries) -- The Anthology Meʿam Loʿez -- Everydaylife of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean Dispersal According to the Meʿam Loʿez -- Chapter 3 -- Immigrants in the Land of Their Birth: The Sephardi Community in Jerusalem. The Test Case of the Meyuḥas Family -- Modernization Processes in the Ottoman Empire -- The Alliance Israélite Universelle -- A Jerusalemite Sephardi Family in the Change of Time: The Test Case of The Meyuḥas Family -- The History of the Meyuḥas Family in the Balkans and in Istanbul (Kushta) -- The Meyuḥas Family in Jerusalem: The Megilat Yoḥasin of the Rishon Le-Zion Rabbi Refael Meyuḥas and the Purim de los Meyuḥasim -- The Descendants of Rabbi Refael Meyuḥas -- Shadarim of the Meyuḥas Family -- The Meyuḥas Family in Kefar Ha-Shiloʾaḥ -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 -- Beautiful Damsels and Men of Valor: Ladino Literature Giving Us a Peek into the Spiritual World of Sephardi Women in Jerusalem (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries) -- Ladino Books Kept by Nona Flor -- Nona Flor the Storyteller -- Old Readers and New Readers -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5.

The Spanish Senator Dr. Ángel Pulido Fernández and the "Spaniards without a Homeland", Speakers of Jewish Spanish -- Dr. Ángel Pulido Fernández and the Sephardim -- How Did the Sephardim React to Pulido's Ideas? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 -- The Lost Identity of the Sephardim in The Land of Israel and the State of Israel -- The Weekly Hed Ha-Mizraḥ and its Readers -- The Second World War in Greece: The Extermination of the Jews -- The Sephardim of The Land of Israel Facing the Holocaust -- Epilogue: History in the Eyes of the Beholder -- Bibliography -- Books and Articles in Hebrew -- Books and Articles in Other Languages -- Index Personarum -- Index Rerum -- Index Locorum.

The history, identity and memory of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean dispersal are analysed by the author with a special reference to the Sephardi community of Jerusalem and to the political, social and cultural changes through which the speakers of Jewish-Spanish went since the turn of the nineteenth century.

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