Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature

Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Jewish, Nonfiction, History, Spain & Portugal
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Author: David A. Wacks ISBN: 9780253015761
Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication: May 11, 2015
Imprint: Indiana University Press Language: English
Author: David A. Wacks
ISBN: 9780253015761
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication: May 11, 2015
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Language: English

The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven experiences of diaspora: first from the Biblical homeland Zion and later from the ancestral hostland, Sefarad. Jewish in Spain and Spanish abroad, these writers negotiated Jewish, Spanish, and diasporic idioms to produce a uniquely Sephardic perspective. Wacks brings Diaspora Studies into dialogue with medieval and early modern Sephardic literature for the first time.

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The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven experiences of diaspora: first from the Biblical homeland Zion and later from the ancestral hostland, Sefarad. Jewish in Spain and Spanish abroad, these writers negotiated Jewish, Spanish, and diasporic idioms to produce a uniquely Sephardic perspective. Wacks brings Diaspora Studies into dialogue with medieval and early modern Sephardic literature for the first time.

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