Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Part I1 A Global Perspective on Sephardic and Mizrahi JewryZion Zohar2 The Origins of Sephardic Jewry in the Medieval Arab WorldMark R. Cohen3 The Judeo-Arabic Heritage Norman A. Stillman4 Judeo-Spanish Culture in Medieval and Modern Times David M. Bunis5 Literatures of Medieval Sepharad Jonathan P. Decter6 Medieval Sephardic-Oriental Jewish Bible ExegesisIsaac Kalimi7 Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah in Spain Moshe IdelPart II8 Hispanic Culture in Exile: Sephardic Life in the Ottoman Balkans Annette B. Fromm9 Sephardic Jurisprudence in the Recent Half-Millennium Zvi Zohar10 Safed Kabbalah and the Sephardic Heritage Morris M. Faierstein11 Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire Pamela Dorn SezginPart III12 Early Modern Sephardim and Blacks: Contact and Con?ict between Two Minorities Jonathan Schorsch13 Diversity and Uniqueness: An Introduction to Sephardic Liturgical Music Mark Kligman14 A Double Occlusion: Sephardim and the Holocaust Henry Abramson15 Sephardim and Oriental Jews in Israel: Rethinking the Sociopolitical Paradigm Zion ZoharAbout the Contributors Index

About the Author

Zion Zohar is associate director of the Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at Florida International University, where he is also the chair of the President Navon Program for the Study of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry. He is the editor of Song of My People: High Holy Day Liturgy.

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