Convivencia Under Siege: Live Action Self-Hating Sephardim
By: David Ramírez Please note: All the Facebook quotes are reprinted without change. The typos have been retained. The personal names of the participants have been removed. And just to […]
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Entering “Pottersville”: Modalities of Destruction and Self-Hatred in Sephardic Jewish History
By David Shasha I was recently looking at Andrew Kaufman’s excellent biography of the great American jurist Benjamin Cardozo and found a note referring to the problem of Sephardim and […]
The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture
By Robert Brody Introduction One of the most misunderstood issues in the traditional Jewish religious world is the transmission of the legal traditions of Israel. Today all centers of […]
(Home)land: Reflections on Andalusi Jewish Attachment to Place
By: Ross Brann “Sefarad is my land, the Land of Israel my destination.” Judah al-Harizi, Tahkemoni (Maqama 49) Letter of Judah Ha-Levi in Toledo to Halfon ben Nathanel al-Dimyati […]
Payback time – the Case of the Catalonian Rabbis
By José Faur Jewish Heroic ideology penetrated the Iberian Peninsula in a three-prong movement: ‘anti-Maimonedean,’ ‘Kabbalah,’ and ‘Rabbis of France’ (usually referred to as חכמי צרפת ‘the Sages of France’ […]
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