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Contents

Notes on Contributors X
Jane S. Gerber: An Appreciation XIV
Brian M. Smollett
Introduction: From Catalonia to the Caribbean 1
Federica Francesconi and Stanley Mirvis
Part 1 The Medieval Mediterranean
1 In the Beginning Was the Poem: Hebrew Prefatory Verse in Golden Age al-Andalus 9
Maud Kozodoy
2 Some Customs of Jews in Medieval Spain 27
Norman Roth
3 Textiles Travel: The Role of Sephardim in the Transmission of Textile Forms and Designs 43
Vivian B. Mann
4 The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Marginality and the Notion of a Mediterranean Society 60
Jonathan Ray
Part 2 Women of the Genizah
5 Independent Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt: Enterprise and Ambiguity 83
Judith R. Baskin
6 A Look at Medieval Egyptian Jewry and Environs: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah Documents 100
Renée Levine Melammed
Part 3 Italy and Western Europe
7 The Sephardic Jewish Merchants of Venice, Port Jews, and the Road to Modernity 117
Benjamin Ravid
8 The Merchants at the Casino: Sephardic Elites and Leisure Time in Eighteenth-Century Livorno 136
Francesca Bregoli
9 La Jébéra et Les Confréries de la Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne au XVIIIe Siècle 154
Gérard Nahon ז״ל
Part 4 Jews under Islam
10 Jews in the Central Islamic Lands in the Eleventh Century 187
D.G. Tor
11 The Unique Case of the Syrian-Jewish Immigrants in Egypt 207
Yaron Harel
12 How Jews Became “Moroccan” 218
Daniel J. Schroeter
Part 5 The Modern Experience
13 The Trial of Joshua Montefiore and the Limits of Atlantic Jewish Inclusion 243
Stanley Mirvis
14 The Absorption of Outsiders: Gibraltarian and North Africans in London’s Portuguese Jewish Community 255
Aviva Ben-Ur
15 From Childhood to Old Age in Twenty-Four Years: The Ecole Maïmonide in Algiers, 1940–1964 279
Jessica Hammerman
16 Millàs Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937–1938) 294
Thomas F. Glick
Part 6 Documents: Unknown Voices
17 “And if I Could, I Would Leave Her More”: Women’s Voices, Emotions, and Objects from the Venetian Ghetto in the Seventeenth Century 311
Federica Francesconi
18 Jews and Muslims in Egypt at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: Two Responsa of Ḥakham Ḥayim Capusi 330
Matt Goldish
19 A Report by Franz von Dombay in 1789 on the Moroccan Court Mentioning Jewish Courtiers 339
Norman (Noam) A. Stillman
The Writings of Jane S. Gerber 349
Index 358
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