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Sephardic-American Voices : Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy by Diane Matza (1997, Library Binding)
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This collection of stories, poems, and plays by American Jews of Sephardic descent gives voice to a culture previously unheard in a literary canon with a predominantly Eastern European and Ashkenazic accent. Representing only five percent of US Jewish immigrants, Sephardim have necessarily existed on the margins of Jewish and American life. Yet these Jews of Spanish, Greek, and Middle Eastern origins have, as Diane Matza demonstrates, maintained their ethnic identity despite persecution, expulsion, and prolonged cultural insularity. These selections, many available for the first time, span nearly three centuries and examine themes such as the centrality of family life, the pain of uprooting from established communities, collision between tradition and assimilation, roles and relationships of men and women, and the toxicity of self-hatred. Informed by sources ranging from biblical literature to historical events, oral traditions, classical poetics, the beat generation, and postmodern ironies, these works introduce a literature that, "though small on an absolute scale and little known, forces us to take a new critical perspective on Jewish American writing."Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Press of New England
ISBN-100874517869
ISBN-139780874517866
eBay Product ID (ePID)677404
Product Key Features
Number of Pages377 Pages
Publication NameSephardic-American Voices : Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy
LanguageEnglish
SubjectJudaism / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Jewish, Jewish Studies
Publication Year1997
TypeTextbook
AuthorDiane Matza
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Religion, History, Social Science
FormatLibrary Binding
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight25.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Height1.3in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN9625-000559
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal810.8/08924
Lc Classification NumberPs508.J4s47 1996
Table of ContentTradition and Assimilation: The Descendants of the Colonial Sephardim * Memoirs of the Homeland: Levantine Sephardim Remember, Return, and Record * Stories of the Levantine Immigrants * The Holocaust Historical and Biblical Insluences * Issues of Identity
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