{"title":"THE JEWS OF VENICE:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235360,"journal":{"name":"Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124184179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Illustrations]","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235360,"journal":{"name":"Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History","volume":"2525 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131387290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CONCLUSION","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235360,"journal":{"name":"Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122428279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JEWISH LIFE IN AMSTERDAM AND THE FORMATION OF THE WESTERN SEPHARDI DIASPORA 1579–1700","authors":"Jane S. Gerber","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.13","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter illustrates a twofold journey of Conversos, a physical trek northward to freedom and a spiritual journey to the practice of Judaism, throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They had no personal experience of life in a Jewish community after the Expulsion from Spain. What united them was a sense of shared oppression at the hands of the Inquisition in Portugal and the collective memory, however faint, of being portugueses de la nación hebrea, homens de nação, or simply members of the nação, the 'Nation'. The chapter explores a distinctive social unit that Conversos formed with extraordinarily tight bonds in Seville, Madrid, Lima, and elsewhere, and a sense of kinship with other Portuguese and Spanish Conversos, wherever they were. This background produced a new and different historical trajectory. The Amsterdam community outstripped the others in culture and affluence and served as their model and guide. Amsterdam, in turn, drew its models of the Jewish community from the Sephardim of Venice. It also examines the emerging new political reality, United Provinces of the Netherlands, and a new model of the Jewish community, the western Sephardi diaspora.","PeriodicalId":235360,"journal":{"name":"Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126649404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Search for Redemption in Safed 1500–1600","authors":"Jane S. Gerber","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses how the two separate branches of the Sephardim formed as the Jews were driven out of their homes to drift from one Mediterranean port to the next. In this resettlement and reshuffling, a large and heterogeneous diaspora of Ladino- and Arabic-speaking Jews emerged throughout the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans. As the Iberian Jews wended their way eastward, they tended to be introspective and melancholy. The chapter discusses the messianic doctrine in Judaism, the Jewish concept of a suffering redeemer, and the outbursts of messianic enthusiasm, as Jews lost patience with their misery and sought to accelerate the difficult process of redemption. While the messianic doctrine that promised an ultimate redemption of the Jews was always present in Jewish thought, it was ordinarily contained. Its power lay in its vagueness, fortifying them to weather current crises with future hope. Ultimately, the chapter provides a careful analysis of Jewish mysticism and Jewish messianism. It analyzes new dimensions of mystical significance that Safed provided to Sephardi history.","PeriodicalId":235360,"journal":{"name":"Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121744285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Map of the Sephardi World","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235360,"journal":{"name":"Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114502237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Jane S. Gerber","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781904113300.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113300.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"The last section of this chapter marks the end of one form of Jewish life and the beginning of another for the Jews of the Iberian peninsula. Like all other Jews, Sephardim collectively mourned the loss of Zion; as Sephardim, they also collectively mourned the loss of Spain. The chapter discusses the deportation of the Jews from their ancient homeland and how they produced the first diaspora in history, although the term was not applied to Jewish settlements outside the Land of Israel until Hellenistic time. Jewish life unfolded between exile and return. Some Jewish diasporas were ephemeral, others more enduring. Some diasporas were exceptionally creative, others merely derivative. Ultimately, the chapter illustrates how the Jewish communities tended to relate to each other through shared memories and common traditions and laws, regardless of the cultural level.","PeriodicalId":235360,"journal":{"name":"Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125828116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CROSSING THE BORDERS OF ART AND SOCIETY:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235360,"journal":{"name":"Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126246385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INDEX","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235360,"journal":{"name":"Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125513088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poetry and Politics in the Caliphate of Cordoba 950–1150","authors":"Jane S. Gerber","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1228hnt.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyses the distinctive Jewish civilization that emerged in Spain, which was then shaped by the unique coexistence of Jews, Christians, and Muslims on European soil. The Jews of Spain remained a distinctive, subordinate, and vulnerable people under the hegemonies of Christendom and Islam, drawing freely from the cultural vitality of both civilizations while also frequently suffering as the victim of both. It also discusses how the Jews of Spain produced an extraordinary outpouring of Hebrew poetry, engaged in philosophical and scientific enquiry, and crafted a civilization that combined elements of Judaeo-Arabic and Romance cultures on the Iberian peninsula. The chapter highlights the era of the caliphate of Cordoba (929–1031), which is closely associated with the beginnings of revolutionary experimentation in new forms of Jewish self-expression and new fields of intellectual enquiry. It illustrates the daring innovations in the manipulation of the Hebrew language during the brief blossoming of the caliphate of Cordoba and the contraction of Muslim rule.","PeriodicalId":235360,"journal":{"name":"Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126711989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}