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Description:This is an illustrated coffee table book with emphasis on art and literature. Originally written in Spanish (Los Judíos de Europa), it should probably not be read cover to cover as I did as the long list of names, books, artifacts, etc. can get quite tedious. Not to say that there isn't a lot of good information here. One thing that I liked was how the authors integrate what is often presented in a more dialectical fashion: the Sephardi-Ashkenazi divide. They explain how Sephardi culture and its variants in Italy, Provence and the Ottoman Empire informed and influenced the Ashkenazic world. Holland plays an important role as a prime site of the Sephardi-Ashkenazic interface. While we may think of Yiddish as the great language of the European Jews, this book gives due credit to the importance of Ladino (Judeo Spanish) and its variants as well as Catalan, German, French, Hebrew and, somewhtat surprisingly (for me) Arabic (Maimonides wrote his great works in Arabic). When the Nazis destroyed the large Ladino-speaking community in Salonica, a whole world was lost. A great book on this topic is Mark Mazower's Salonica: City of Ghosts.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Jews and Europe: 2,000 Years of History. To get started finding The Jews and Europe: 2,000 Years of History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 239

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Chartwell Books, Inc.

Release: 2000

ISBN: 0785809546

Description: This is an illustrated coffee table book with emphasis on art and literature. Originally written in Spanish (Los Judíos de Europa), it should probably not be read cover to cover as I did as the long list of names, books, artifacts, etc. can get quite tedious. Not to say that there isn't a lot of good information here. One thing that I liked was how the authors integrate what is often presented in a more dialectical fashion: the Sephardi-Ashkenazi divide. They explain how Sephardi culture and its variants in Italy, Provence and the Ottoman Empire informed and influenced the Ashkenazic world. Holland plays an important role as a prime site of the Sephardi-Ashkenazic interface. While we may think of Yiddish as the great language of the European Jews, this book gives due credit to the importance of Ladino (Judeo Spanish) and its variants as well as Catalan, German, French, Hebrew and, somewhtat surprisingly (for me) Arabic (Maimonides wrote his great works in Arabic). When the Nazis destroyed the large Ladino-speaking community in Salonica, a whole world was lost. A great book on this topic is Mark Mazower's Salonica: City of Ghosts.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Jews and Europe: 2,000 Years of History. To get started finding The Jews and Europe: 2,000 Years of History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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