Ross Brann is M. R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies at Cornell University and is author of Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-century Islamic Spain. Adam Sutcliffe teaches Jewish history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of Judaism and Enlightenment.

• Foreword David B. RudermanIntroduction: Al-Andalus, Enlightenment, and the Renewal of the Jewish Past-Adam Sutcliffe and Ross BrannPART I. PHILOSOPHY, POETRY, AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN PREMODERN AL-ANDALUS AND ITALY1. Aesthetic Models in Conflict: Classicist versus Ornamental in Jewish Poetics-Joseph Yahalom2. The Uses of Exile in Poetic Discourse: Some Examples from Medieval Hebrew Literature-Esperanza Alfonso3. Their Rose in Our Garden: Romance: Elements in Hebrew Italian Poetry-Dvora Bregman4. The Crisis of Medieval Knowledge in the Work of the Fifteenth-Century Poet and Philosopher Moses da Rieti-Alessandro GuettaPART II. RENEWING TEXTS, CHANGING HORIZONS: THE JEWISH ENLIGHTENMENTS APPROPRIATION OF ANDALUSI IDEALS5. Judah Halevis Kuzari in the Haskalah: The Reinterpretation and Re-imagining of a Medieval Work-Adam Shear6. The Aesthetic Difference: Moses Mendelssohns Kohelet Musar and the Inception of the Berlin Haskalah-Jonathan Karp7. Varieties of Haskalah: Sabato Moraiss Program of Sephardi Rabbinic Humanism in Victorian America-Arthur KironPART III: REFASHIONINGS OF THE JEWISH PAST IN THE ERA OF HASKALAH8. Solomon Maimon and His Jewish Philosophical Predecessors: The Evidence of His Autobiography-Allan Arkush9. Quarreling over Spinoza: Moses: Mendelssohn and the Fashioning of Jewish Philosophical Heroism-Adam Sutcliffe10. Strategic Friendships: Jewish Intellectuals, the AbbÉ GrÉgoire, and the French Revolution-Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall11. Heine and Haggadah: History, Narration and Tradition in the Age of Wissenschaft des Judentums-Jonathan SkolnikList of ContributorsIndex

"An important contribution not only to Jewish studies but also to the larger study of historical memory." (American Historical Review)

Ross Brann is M. R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies at Cornell University and is author of Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-century Islamic Spain. Adam Sutcliffe teaches Jewish history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of Judaism and Enlightenment.

• Foreword David B. RudermanIntroduction: Al-Andalus, Enlightenment, and the Renewal of the Jewish Past-Adam Sutcliffe and Ross BrannPART I. PHILOSOPHY, POETRY, AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN PREMODERN AL-ANDALUS AND ITALY1. Aesthetic Models in Conflict: Classicist versus Ornamental in Jewish Poetics-Joseph Yahalom2. The Uses of Exile in Poetic Discourse: Some Examples from Medieval Hebrew Literature-Esperanza Alfonso3. Their Rose in Our Garden: Romance: Elements in Hebrew Italian Poetry-Dvora Bregman4. The Crisis of Medieval Knowledge in the Work of the Fifteenth-Century Poet and Philosopher Moses da Rieti-Alessandro GuettaPART II. RENEWING TEXTS, CHANGING HORIZONS: THE JEWISH ENLIGHTENMENTS APPROPRIATION OF ANDALUSI IDEALS5. Judah Halevis Kuzari in the Haskalah: The Reinterpretation and Re-imagining of a Medieval Work-Adam Shear6. The Aesthetic Difference: Moses Mendelssohns Kohelet Musar and the Inception of the Berlin Haskalah-Jonathan Karp7. Varieties of Haskalah: Sabato Moraiss Program of Sephardi Rabbinic Humanism in Victorian America-Arthur KironPART III: REFASHIONINGS OF THE JEWISH PAST IN THE ERA OF HASKALAH8. Solomon Maimon and His Jewish Philosophical Predecessors: The Evidence of His Autobiography-Allan Arkush9. Quarreling over Spinoza: Moses: Mendelssohn and the Fashioning of Jewish Philosophical Heroism-Adam Sutcliffe10. Strategic Friendships: Jewish Intellectuals, the AbbÉ GrÉgoire, and the French Revolution-Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall11. Heine and Haggadah: History, Narration and Tradition in the Age of Wissenschaft des Judentums-Jonathan SkolnikList of ContributorsIndex

"An important contribution not only to Jewish studies but also to the larger study of historical memory." (American Historical Review)

Ross Brann is M. R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies at Cornell University and is author of Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-century Islamic Spain. Adam Sutcliffe teaches Jewish history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of Judaism and Enlightenment.

• Foreword David B. RudermanIntroduction: Al-Andalus, Enlightenment, and the Renewal of the Jewish Past-Adam Sutcliffe and Ross BrannPART I. PHILOSOPHY, POETRY, AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN PREMODERN AL-ANDALUS AND ITALY1. Aesthetic Models in Conflict: Classicist versus Ornamental in Jewish Poetics-Joseph Yahalom2. The Uses of Exile in Poetic Discourse: Some Examples from Medieval Hebrew Literature-Esperanza Alfonso3. Their Rose in Our Garden: Romance: Elements in Hebrew Italian Poetry-Dvora Bregman4. The Crisis of Medieval Knowledge in the Work of the Fifteenth-Century Poet and Philosopher Moses da Rieti-Alessandro GuettaPART II. RENEWING TEXTS, CHANGING HORIZONS: THE JEWISH ENLIGHTENMENTS APPROPRIATION OF ANDALUSI IDEALS5. Judah Halevis Kuzari in the Haskalah: The Reinterpretation and Re-imagining of a Medieval Work-Adam Shear6. The Aesthetic Difference: Moses Mendelssohns Kohelet Musar and the Inception of the Berlin Haskalah-Jonathan Karp7. Varieties of Haskalah: Sabato Moraiss Program of Sephardi Rabbinic Humanism in Victorian America-Arthur KironPART III: REFASHIONINGS OF THE JEWISH PAST IN THE ERA OF HASKALAH8. Solomon Maimon and His Jewish Philosophical Predecessors: The Evidence of His Autobiography-Allan Arkush9. Quarreling over Spinoza: Moses: Mendelssohn and the Fashioning of Jewish Philosophical Heroism-Adam Sutcliffe10. Strategic Friendships: Jewish Intellectuals, the AbbÉ GrÉgoire, and the French Revolution-Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall11. Heine and Haggadah: History, Narration and Tradition in the Age of Wissenschaft des Judentums-Jonathan SkolnikList of ContributorsIndex

"An important contribution not only to Jewish studies but also to the larger study of historical memory." (American Historical Review)