The Martyrdom of a Moroccan Jewish Saint

Biographical note Readership Reviews Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

x., 240 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Sharon Vance, Ph.D. (2005) in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, is an Assistant Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University. She has published articles in Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa (Indiana University Press, forthcoming) and Genesis Revista della Società Italiana della Storiche, as well as in the Encyclopaedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill, 2010).

Readership

All those interested in Jewish Muslim relations in the 19th Century, North African and Jewish history, rabbinic literature, gender discourse and interreligious polemics.

Reviews

"This book is highly recommended for academic collections, and for collections specializing in materials about the Jews of Arab lands."

Beth Dwoskin, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews (2012) Vol. 2, No. 1

Introduction
Chapter One: The Many Lives of Sol Hatchuel
Chapter Two: The Limits of Protection: The Execution in Historical Context
Chapter Three: The Tale of the Martyred Maiden
Chapter Four: 'As an Ewe Before her Shearers': The Hebrew Elegies
Chapter Five: The Fallen Gazelle
Chapter Six: The Sacrificed Lovers: Sol's Story in the Judeo-Spanish Newspaper La Epoka
Conclusion

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The Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference

Edited by Shlomo Simonsohn, Tel-Aviv University and Joseph Shatzmiller, Duke University

This volume contains the proceedings of the Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference, held at Tel Aviv University 3-5 January, 2010, on the occasion of the jubilee celebration of outstanding scholarship on the history of Italian Jewry.

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The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919-‐1939

Ilse Josepha Lazaroms, Central European University

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Between Scylla and Charybdis

Shlomo Simonsohn

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Marvin J. Heller

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Edited by Yosef Kaplan

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