ROSE-CAROL WASHTON LONG is professor of art history, The Graduate Center, CUNY. MATTHEW BAIGELL is emeritus professor of art history, Rutgers University. MILLY HEYD is Nicolas Landau Professor of Modern Art in the Department of the History of Art at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
[A]n invaluable resource for both students and experienced
researchers studying early modern Jewry, the Sephardic diasporic
experience, or Jewish family life. AJS Review"
[T]he articles in Sephardi Family Life are all fascinating, drawing
on a range of source materials (Halakhic responsa, Inquisition
records, communal archives) and disciplinary approaches. . . . The
lives of ordinary people, especially women and children, emerge
from these articles in flashes of clarity, allowing the reader
glimpses of what is usually lost to historical memory. Sephardi
Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora moves our knowledge of
early modern Jewish women and families forward by a significant
step. . . . [It] contributes to a new image of the late medieval
and early modern Sephardi world not only as religiously complex,
but also as a fully lived, idiosyncratic, and deeply human culture.
Jewish Book Word"
Having escaped the Inquisition, many Sephardic Jews were by the
beginning of the 16th century already scattered throughout a
variety of locations in Asia, Africa, and Europe. And, as we know
from more recent immigrations, it isn t always easy for newcomers
to get along with the local bigwigs who have their own established
ideas about how to run things. The six academic essays collected by
Julia Lieberman in Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern
Diaspora explore the day-to-day lives of these far-flung Jews as
their practices and traditions clashed with those of the Jews who
were their new neighbors in the Ottoman empire. Tablet
Magazine"
The voices that come alive in Sephardi Family Life in the Early
Modern Diaspora beat down the tiresome impulse to prove history
relevant. Instead, the six excellent and painstakingly researched
scholarly papers, edited by Julia R. Lieberman, prove their worth
in a better way: They tell stories that reveal how besieged
societies strain to hold on to their traditions and to civilized
life. Forward"
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