Jane S. Gerber (Professor Emerita of History and director of the In

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Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History

Beschreibung

While Sephardi Jews havelived in numerous cities and towns throughout history, certain cities had agreater impact in the shaping of their culture. Each served as a venue in which a particular dimension of SephardiJewry either took shape or was expressed in especially intense form.

Autor

Jane S. Gerber is Professor Emerita of History and director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a past president of the Association for Jewish Studies. She is author of Jewish Society in Fez: 1450-1700 (1980), The Jews of Spain (1992), winner of a National Jewish Book Award, and Sephardic Studies in the University (1995), and editor of The Jews in the Caribbean (also published by the Littman Library). She has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the Hebrew University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Jewish Theological Seminary, and has lectured widely in the United States and elsewhere. She headed the Advisory Board of the American Sephardi Federation and served on the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History and the Academic Board of the Rothberg School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Produktdetails

• The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 169mm x 240mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781835539972
• ISBN-10: 1835539971
• Artikelnr.: 72804319