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035 _a(OCoLC)926049085
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aEfron, John M.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aGerman Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic /
_cJohn M. Efron.
250 _aPilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource (352 p.) :
_b34 halftones.
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter One. The Sound of Jewish Modernity --
_tChapter Two. “Castilian Pride and Oriental Dignity” --
_tChapter Three. Of Minarets and Menorahs --
_tChapter Four. Pleasure Reading --
_tChapter Five. Writing Jewish History --
_tEpilogue --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to the Sephardim of medieval Spain. Where they saw Ashkenazic Jewry as insular and backward, a result of Christian persecution, they depicted the Sephardim as worldly, morally and intellectually superior, and beautiful, products of the tolerant Muslim environment in which they lived. In this elegantly written book, John Efron looks in depth at the special allure Sephardic aesthetics held for German Jewry.Efron examines how German Jews idealized the sound of Sephardic Hebrew and the Sephardim's physical and moral beauty, and shows how the allure of the Sephardic found expression in neo-Moorish synagogue architecture, historical novels, and romanticized depictions of Sephardic history. He argues that the shapers of German-Jewish culture imagined medieval Iberian Jewry as an exemplary Jewish community, bound by tradition yet fully at home in the dominant culture of Muslim Spain. Efron argues that the myth of Sephardic superiority was actually an expression of withering self-critique by German Jews who, by seeking to transform Ashkenazic culture and win the acceptance of German society, hoped to enter their own golden age.Stimulating and provocative, this book demonstrates how the goal of this aesthetic self-refashioning was not assimilation but rather the creation of a new form of German-Jewish identity inspired by Sephardic beauty.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aHaskalah
_zGermany
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aJews
_xCultural assimilation
_zGermany.
650 0 _aJews
_zGermany
_xIdentity
_y18th century.
650 0 _aJews
_zGermany
_xIdentity
_y19th century.
650 0 _aJews
_zGermany
_xIntellectual life
_y18th century.
650 0 _aJews
_zGermany
_xIntellectual life
_y19th century.
650 0 _aSephardim
_xSocial life and customs.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Jewish.
_2bisacsh
653 _aAbraham Geiger.
653 _aAbravanel.
653 _aAntisemitism.
653 _aAntithesis.
653 _aApostasy.
653 _aArabs.
653 _aArthur Ruppin.
653 _aAshkenazi Jews.
653 _aBaruch Spinoza.
653 _aBiblical Hebrew.
653 _aBlood libel.
653 _aBourgeoisie.
653 _aCentral Synagogue.
653 _aChristianity.
653 _aDavid Sorkin.
653 _aEastern Europe.
653 _aEdward Said.
653 _aFriedrich Nicolai.
653 _aGerman language.
653 _aGerman literature.
653 _aGermans.
653 _aGershom Scholem.
653 _aGothic architecture.
653 _aGottfried Semper.
653 _aGotthold Ephraim Lessing.
653 _aHaskalah.
653 _aHebrew language.
653 _aHebrews.
653 _aHeinrich Heine.
653 _aHistorical fiction.
653 _aHorowitz.
653 _aIdeology.
653 _aIllustration.
653 _aImmanuel Kant.
653 _aIsaac Satanow.
653 _aIsraelites.
653 _aJewish culture.
653 _aJewish diaspora.
653 _aJewish emancipation.
653 _aJewish history.
653 _aJewish identity.
653 _aJewish literature.
653 _aJewish studies.
653 _aJews.
653 _aJudah Halevi.
653 _aJudaism.
653 _aJudea.
653 _aKabbalah.
653 _aLand of Israel.
653 _aLeo von Klenze.
653 _aLiterary criticism.
653 _aLiterature.
653 _aLudwig Philippson.
653 _aMarrano.
653 _aMartin Jay.
653 _aMaskil.
653 _aMeyer Kayserling.
653 _aModernity.
653 _aMoses Mendelssohn.
653 _aMoses ibn Ezra.
653 _aMosque.
653 _aNathan Adler.
653 _aNewspaper.
653 _aNobility.
653 _aNorbert Elias.
653 _aNotion (ancient city).
653 _aOrientalism.
653 _aPersecution.
653 _aPhilosopher.
653 _aPiety.
653 _aPoetry.
653 _aPopular culture.
653 _aPrinceton University Press.
653 _aPronunciation.
653 _aPrussia.
653 _aRacism.
653 _aReform Judaism.
653 _aRidicule.
653 _aRomanticism.
653 _aSanskrit.
653 _aSelf-criticism.
653 _aSensibility.
653 _aSepharad.
653 _aSephardi Hebrew.
653 _aSephardi Jews.
653 _aShlomo.
653 _aSpanish and Portuguese Jews.
653 _aSuggestion.
653 _aSuperiority (short story).
653 _aSynagogue architecture.
653 _aSynagogue.
653 _aThe Civilizing Process.
653 _aThe Philosopher.
653 _aTorah study.
653 _aWestern culture.
653 _aWissenschaft des Judentums.
653 _aWriting.
653 _aYad Vashem.
653 _aYiddish.
653 _aZionism.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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