Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature

Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven experiences of diaspora: first from the Biblical homeland Zion and later from the ancestral hostland, Sefarad. Jewish in Spain and Spanish abroad, these writers negotiated Jewish, Spanish, and diasporic idioms to produce a uniquely Sephardic perspective. Wacks brings Diaspora Studies into dialogue with medieval and early modern Sephardic literature for the first time.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-05-11
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt576 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSephardi and Mizrahi Studies
Antal sidor308
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253015723
UtmärkelserWinner of Jewish Book Council National Jewish Book Award: Sephardic Studies 2015

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. Diaspora Studies for Sephardic Culture 2. Allegory and Romance in Diaspora: Jacob ben Elazar's Book of Tales 3. Poetry in Diaspora: From al-Andalus to Provence and back to Castile 4. The Anxiety of Vernacularization: Shem Tov ben Isaac ibn Ardutiel de Carrión's Proverbios morales and Debate between the Pen and the Scissors 5. Diaspora as Tragicomedy: Vidal Benvenist's Efer and Dina 6. Empire and Diaspora: Solomon ibn Verga's Shevet Yehudah and Joseph Karo's Magid Meisharim7. Reading Amadís in Constantinople: Spanish Fiction in the Key of DiasporaConclusion NotesWorks Cited Index

Double Diaspora will enrich the multiple fields it participates in—medieval and romance studies, Sephardic history, Hebrew literature, and many more.(AJS Review) Wacks makes a crucial first foray toward a more nuanced critical understanding of the literary world of Spanish Jewry. His attempts to renegotiate the boundaries of the canon and extend Iberian literature to include non-Castilian and even non-Iberian texts raise profound questions about how Spanish literature should be studied and taught.(Hispania) Wacks's book uncovers the experience and enriches the academic field of Hebrew and Romance literary studies by opening up a whole new set of questions and by suggesting new approaches to the study of Jewish cultural heritage, which, as Wacks makes clear, should always take into account the surrounding non-Jewish intellectual context.(La coronica)