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NYU Press Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History

Name: Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History
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Product Description A small band of Sephardim, or Jews who trace their origins to Spain and Portugal, were the first Jews to arrive in the New World. By the 1720s, these Western Sephardim were outnumbered by Ashkenazim (Jews of Germanic and Eastern European background), though they maintained religious hegemony until the turn of the nineteenth century.A far larger group of Sephardic Jews, Iberian in remote origin, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Most of these Eastern Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the most important Judeo-Spanish community outside the former Ottoman Empire. A smaller group of Mizrahi Jews from Arab-speaking lands arrived at the same time. A minority within a minority and often differing in their culture and rituals, both Sephardim and Mizrahim were not readily recognized as Jews by their Ashkenazic coreligionists. At the same time, they forged alliances with the Hispanic and Arab non-Jewish immigrant communities with whom they shared significant cultural and linguistic ties.The denial of their Jewishness was a defining experience for Sephardi and Mizrahi immigrants and, in some cases, for their native-born children and grandchildren as well. The failure to recognize Sephardim as fellow Jews continues today in textbooks, articles, documentaries, films, and popular awareness. More often than not, Sephardic Jews are simply absent from any sort of portrayal of the American Jewish community.Drawing on primary source documents such as the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) press, archival documents, and oral histories, "Sephardic Jews in America" offers a rare glimpse of their history in the United States, from 1654 to the present, focusing on the age of mass immigration. It will appeal to all those interested in the history of the Jews in America, United States immigration, ethnicity, Hispanic and Arab American studies, and sociology. Review "Offers refreshing new insights into the Sephardic migration from Ottoman lands to America in the early twentieth century. Drawing heavily upon the unknown riches of the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) press, Ben-Ur illuminates many unknown aspects of the Jewish immigrant experience. She sheds new light on American Jewry, providing a different narrative that will be especially welcome to students of ethnicity and immigration in general as well as readers seeking information on the Hispanic-Jewish encounter." --JANE S. GERBER, Director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies, City University of New York About the Author AVIVA BEN-UR is Associate Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the departments of History and Spanish and Portuguese. She is the author of A Ladino Legacy: The Judeo-Spanish Collection of Louis N. Levy.

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Brand: NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0814799825
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Finance & Stock Market History
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Release Date: 01 February 2009
Listed Since: 20 May 2008

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