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This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is a collection of substantive, sophisticated and variegated essays, combining case studies with theoretical reflections, organized into three sections: race and blood, metropoles and colonies, and history and memory. Twelve chapters treat converso slave traders, race and early Afro-Portuguese relations in West Africa, Sephardim and people of color in nineteenth-century Curaçao, Portuguese converso/Sephardic imperialist behavior, Caspar Barlaeus’ attitude toward Jews in the Sephardic Atlantic, Jewish-Creole historiography in eighteenth-century Suriname, Savannah’s eighteenth-century Sephardic community in an Altantic setting, Freemasonry and Sephardim in the British Empire, the figure of Columbus in popular literature about the Caribbean, key works of Caribbean postcolonial literature on Sephardim, the holocaust, slavery and race, Canadian Jewish identity in the reception history of Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue and Moroccan-Jewish memories of a sixteenth-century Portuguese military defeat.

Sephardim --- History. --- Judaism and culture. --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- Culture and Judaism --- Culture --- Europe—History—1492-.

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This book aims to construct a contemporary Jewish philosophy that accounts for virtue ethics or, rather, to give Jewish virtue ethics a contemporary language for its expression. Ira Bedzow draws significantly on the work of Moses Maimonides and his religio-philosophical explanation of Jewish ethics. However, Bedzow moves away from various aspects of Maimonides’s Aristotelian biology, physics, metaphysics, and psychology. The objective of the volume is to integrate the normative principles of the Jewish tradition into everyday life. While the book translates Jewish ethics from a medieval, Aristotelian framework into a contemporary one, it also serves as a means for Judaism to continue as a living tradition. .

Religion. --- Judaism --- Judaism and culture. --- Religion --- Religious Studies. --- Jewish Theology. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Doctrines. --- Philosophy. --- Culture and Judaism --- Jewish theology --- Theology, Jewish --- Religion, Primitive --- Judaism-Doctrines. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Culture --- Judaism—Doctrines. --- Religion—Philosophy.

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This book traces the historical phenomenon of “the Jew as Legitimation.” Contributors discuss how Jews have been used, through time, to validate non-Jewish beliefs. The volume dissects the dilemmas and challenges this pattern has presented to Jews. Throughout history, Jews and Judaism have served to legitimize the beliefs of Gentiles. Jews functioned as Augustine’s witnesses to the truth of Christianity, as Christian Kabbalist’s source for Protestant truths, as an argument for the enlightened claim for tolerance, as the focus of modern Christian Zionist reverence, and as a weapon of contemporary right wing populism against fears of Islamization. This volume challenges understandings of Jewish-Gentile relations, offering a counter-perspective to discourses of antisemitism and philosemitism. .

Religion. --- Religions. --- Judaism and culture. --- Europe --- Religious Studies. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- History of Modern Europe. --- Comparative Religion. --- History—1492-. --- Judaism --- Christianity and other religions --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Judaism. --- Brotherhood Week --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Culture and Judaism --- Culture --- Europe—History—1492-.

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This volume examines the teaching of Jewishness within the context of medieval England. It covers a wide array of academic disciplines and addresses a multitude of primary sources, including medieval English manuscripts, law codes, philosophy, art, and literature, in explicating how the Jew-as-Other was formed. Chapters are devoted to the teaching of the complexities of medieval Jewish experiences in the modern classroom. Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other also grounds medieval conceptions of the Other within the contemporary world where we continue to confront the problematic attitudes directed toward alleged social outcasts.

Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- History --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Literature, Medieval. --- Europe-History-476-1492. --- Judaism and culture. --- Medieval Literature. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Culture and Judaism --- Culture --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Europe—History—476-1492. --- Europe --- Gay culture Europe --- 476-1492.

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This book analyses issues of language and Jewish identity among the Sephardim in Sarajevo. The author examines how Sephardim belonging to three different generations in Sarajevo deal with the challenge of cultivating hybrid and hyphenated identities under destabilizing conditions, exploring how a group of interviewees define and describe the language they speak since Yugoslavia’s collapse. Their self-identification through language is then placed within the context of other cases of linguistic and ethnic identity formation in European minority groups. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in several related fields and disciplines, including Slavic studies, Historical Anthropology, Jewish History and Holocaust studies, Sociolinguistics, and Memory studies. Jonna Rock currently works for the Silent Heroes Memorial Center in Berlin, Germany. She has published book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals including Nationalities Papers and Judaica Petropolitana. This is her first monograph, based on her doctoral thesis submitted at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

Sociolinguistics. --- Judaism and culture. --- Civilization-History. --- Historiography. --- Semitic languages. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Cultural History. --- Memory Studies. --- Semitic Languages. --- Afroasiatic languages --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Culture and Judaism --- Culture --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Civilization—History.