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03950aam a2200565 i 4500 001 E2838ABCECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160318010059 008 150728t20162016njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015029524 020 $a 0691167745 020 $a 9780691167749 035 $a (OCoLC)908083957 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d OSU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gx--- 050 00 $a DS134.24 $b .E37 2015 082 00 $a 305.892/404309033 $2 23 084 $a REL040030 $a HIS010000 $a HIS054000 $a REL040030 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Efron, John M., $e author. 245 10 $a German Jewry and the allure of the Sephardic / $c John M. Efron. 264 1 $a Princeton, N.J. ; $b Princeton University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a viii, 343 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-320) and index. 520 $a "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 Jewry as insular and backward, a result of Christian persecution, they depicted the Sephardim as worldly, morally and intellectually superior, and beautiful, products of the tolerant Muslim environment in which they lived. In this elegantly written book, John Efron looks in depth at the special allure Sephardic aesthetics held for German Jewry.Efron examines how German Jews idealized the sound of Sephardic Hebrew and the Sephardim's physical and moral beauty, and shows how the allure of the Sephardic found expression in neo-Moorish synagogue architecture, historical novels, and romanticized depictions of Sephardic history. He argues that the shapers of German-Jewish culture imagined medieval Iberian Jewry as an exemplary Jewish community, bound by tradition yet fully at home in the dominant culture of Muslim Spain. Efron argues that the myth of Sephardic superiority was actually an expression of withering self-critique by German Jews who, by seeking to transform Ashkenazic culture and win the acceptance of German society, hoped to enter their own golden age.Stimulating and provocative, this book demonstrates how the goal of this aesthetic self-refashioning was not assimilation but rather the creation of a new form of German-Jewish identity inspired by Sephardic beauty"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Jews $z Germany $x Intellectual life $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Jews $z Germany $x Identity $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Jews $z Germany $x Intellectual life $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Jews $z Germany $x Identity $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Sephardim $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Jews $x Cultural assimilation $z Germany. 650 0 $a Haskalah $z Germany $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a Germany $x Ethnic relations. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Jewish. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Europe / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Social History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a RELIGION / Judaism / History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Ethnic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916005 650 7 $a Haskalah. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00951828 650 7 $a Jews $x Cultural assimilation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00983194 650 7 $a Jews $x Identity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00983278 650 7 $a Jews $x Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00983287 650 7 $a Sephardim $x Social life and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01112778 651 7 $a Germany. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210272 648 7 $a 1700 - 1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213022202.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826042348.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E2838ABCECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search