Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture

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ABC-CLIO

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2008

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9781851098743

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From the Roman occupation of Judea circa 135 A.D. to the founding of Israel, Jewish people were without a sovereign homeland. But far from eradicating Judaism, as the Emperor Hadrian desired, the Judean conquest expanded its reach, as Jewish refugees, pilgrims, and slaves scattered throughout the world, accelerating a Diaspora that had begun six to eight centuries earlier.
Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture is the definitive resource on one of world history's most curious phenomenons, encompassing the communities, cultures, ethnicities, and experiences created by the Diaspora in every region of the world where Jews live or Jewish ancestry exists.
The encyclopedia is organized in three volumes. The first includes 100 essays on the Jewish Diaspora experience, with coverage ranging from ethnography and demography to philosophy, history, music, and business. The second and third volumes feature hundreds of articles and essays on Diaspora regions, countries, cities, and other locations. With an editorial board of renowned Jewish scholars, and with an extraordinarily accomplished team of contributors, Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora captures the full scope of its subject like no other reference work before it.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents in Brief.
Contents.
Editorial Board and Staff.
Contributors.
Preface.
Maps.
Introduction: The Need and Usefulness of Diaspora Studies.
1: The Concept of Diaspora in Biblical Literature.
2: The Concept of Diaspora in Talmudic Thought.
3: Diaspora in the Hellenistic Period.
4: Symbols of the Diaspora.
5: Liturgy in the Diaspora.
6: The Concept of Exile and Diaspora in Sephardi Thought.
7: Lurianic Kabbalah and the Idea of the Diaspora.
8: Communication in the Premodern Jewish Diaspora.
9: The Concept of Diaspora and Exile in German-Jewish Literature and Art.
10: The Concept of Sephardi and the Ashkenazi in German-Jewish and German Anti-Semitic Thought.
11: The Concept of Diaspora in the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
12: Jewry as an Archetypical Diaspora.
13: Jewish Self-Hatred.
14: Diaspora, Exile, and Jewish Identity.
15: Jews and Judaism in Ancient World Literature.
16: History of Jews as a Minority.
17: The Lost Tribes of Israel.
18: The Samaritan Diaspora.
19: History of the Karaite Diaspora.
20: History of Jewish Persecution and Expulsion.
21: Varieties of Anti-Semitism.
22: Literary Anti-Semitism.
23: Western Democracies and the Holocaust.
24: Euro-Arab Anti-Semitism.
25: The New Anti-Semitism.
26: The Dissemination of Early Christianity beyond the Jewish Diaspora.
27: Jewish Diaspora and the Spreading of Christianity.
28: Jewish Influence on the Formation of the Christian Scriptures.
29: History of Judeo-Christian Communities in the Jewish Diaspora.
30: Islamization and Jews in the Medieval Middle East.
31: Christian-Jewish Dialogue: 18th Century.
32: Contemporary Judeo-Christian Communities in the Jewish Diaspora.
33: Jewish-Islamic Mutual Influences.
34: The Widespread Phenomena of Marranism and Hidden Jews.
35: Brazilian Marranism.
36: Characteristics of Jewish Languages.
37: Varieties of Diaspora Languages.
38: Judeo-Spanish in the T
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