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Sephardic Jews in America
Author | : Aviva Ben-Ur |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780814725191 |
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A history of Sephardic Jews in the United States examines their place within the American Jewish community ahd how Ashkenazic Jews have often failed to recognize Sephardim as fellow Jews.
Sephardic Jews in America
Author | : Aviva Ben-Ur |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2009-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780814786321 |
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A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct languages, cultures, and rituals, Sephardim and Arab-speaking Mizrahim were not readily recognized as Jews by their Ashkenazic coreligionists. At the same time, they forged alliances outside Jewish circles with Hispanics and Arabs, with whom they shared significant cultural and linguistic ties. The failure among Ashkenazic Jews to recognize Sephardim and Mizrahim as fellow Jews continues today. More often than not, these Jewish communities are simply absent from portrayals of American Jewry. Drawing on primary sources such as the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) press, archival documents, and oral histories, Sephardic Jews in America offers the first book-length academic treatment of their history in the United States, from 1654 to the present, focusing on the age of mass immigration.
Sephardic Jews in America
Author | : Aviva Ben-Ur |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2009-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780814799826 |
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A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct languages, cultures, and rituals, Sephardim and Arab-speaking Mizrahim were not readily recognized as Jews by their Ashkenazic coreligionists. At the same time, they forged alliances outside Jewish circles with Hispanics and Arabs, with whom they shared significant cultural and linguistic ties. The failure among Ashkenazic Jews to recognize Sephardim and Mizrahim as fellow Jews continues today. More often than not, these Jewish communities are simply absent from portrayals of American Jewry. Drawing on primary sources such as the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) press, archival documents, and oral histories, Sephardic Jews in America offers the first book-length academic treatment of their history in the United States, from 1654 to the present, focusing on the age of mass immigration.
Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America
Author | : Saba Soomekh |
Publsiher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2015-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781557537287 |
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Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America includes academics, artists, writers, and civic and religious leaders who contributed chapters focusing on the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience in America. Topics will address language, literature, art, diaspora identity, and civic and political engagement. When discussing identity in America, one contributor will review and explore the distinct philosophy and culture of classic Sephardic Judaism, and how that philosophy and culture represents a viable option for American Jews who seek a rich and meaningful medium through which to balance Jewish tradition and modernity. Another chapter will provide a historical perspective of Sephardi/Ashkenazi Diasporic tensions. Additionally, contributors will address the term "Sephardi" as a self-imposed, collective, "ethnic" designation that had to be learned and naturalized--and its parameters defined and negotiated--in the new context of the United States and in conversation with discussions about Sephardic identity across the globe. This volume also will look at the theme of literature, focusing on Egyptian and Iranian writers in the United States. Continuing with the Iranian Jewish community, contributors will discuss the historical and social genesis of Iranian-American Jewish participation and leadership in American civic, political, and Jewish affairs. Another chapter reviews how art is used to express Iranian Diaspora identity and nostalgia. The significance of language among Sephardi and Mizrahi communities is discussed. One chapter looks at the Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jewish population of Seattle, while another confronts the experience of Judeo-Spanish speakers in the United States and how they negotiate identity via the use of language. In addition, scholars will explore how Judeo-Spanish speakers engage in dialogue with one another from a century ago, and furthermore, how they use and modify their language when they find themselves in Spanish-speaking areas today.
Sephardic American Voices
Author | : Diane Matza |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1998-11 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 0874518903 |
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A groundbreaking literary anthology reveals the nature and history of a lesser-known but vital branch of Jewish culture.
Sephardim in the Americas
Author | : Martin A. Cohen,Abraham J. Peck |
Publsiher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2003-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780817311766 |
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Multidisciplinary essays examinig the historical and cultural history of the Sephardic experience in the Americas, from pre-expulsion Spain to the modern era, as recounted by some of the most outstanding interpreters of the field.
La America
Author | : Marc Angel |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : IND:39000005630210 |
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The story of the Jewish immigration to the United States in the early years of the century has been fully described in a variety of publications. Less well known is the story of the more than 25,000 Levantine Sephardim who entered the United States between 1899 and 1925. La America, the Judeo-Spanish-language national weekly newspaper founded in 1910 is a welcome contribution to an understanding of this long neglected aspect of the American Jewish experience. Rabbi Angel discovers in the newspaper reports and editorials and brings to the readers" attention the fascinating heritage of American Sephardic Jews.
Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas
Author | : Margalit Bejarano,Edna Aizenberg |
Publsiher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2012-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815651659 |
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Offers a wide overview of the Sephardic presence in North and South America through eleven essays discussing culture, history, literature, language, religion and music.