German jewry and the allure of the sephardic
Auteur :
Efron, John M.
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691192758
Date de publication :
28 mai 2019
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to the Sephardim of medieval Spain. Where they saw Ashkenazic