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Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature 1200-1600 David Wacks Ernest Moll Fellow in Literary Studies Oregon Humanitites Center 8 April 2011
Overview ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What is Sephardic Literature? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What is Sepharad? Image: http://maps.google.com/ Accessed 10 march 2011.
Sefarad in the  Tanakh  (OT) ,[object Object],[object Object]
Hispania (Roman) = Sefarad Vicens Vives, Jaime.  Atlas de historia de España. Barcelona: Teide, 1973.
Hispania (Visigothic) = Sefarad Vicens Vives, Jaime.  Atlas de historia de España. Barcelona: Teide, 1973.
al-Andalus = Sefarad
Castilla y León = Sefarad
1492: Sephardic diaspora
Why a focus on Sephardic writers? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What is Sephardic literature? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What is Double Diaspora? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Diaspora ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Galut  and  Ge’ulah ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Traditional voices of  galut : al-Andalus ,[object Object],[object Object]
Traditional voices of  galut ,[object Object],[object Object]
Galut  = suffering ,[object Object],[object Object]
Galut  and Jewish History ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What’s wrong with this picture? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What’s wrong with this picture? ,[object Object],[object Object]
From Spain, more reassessment ,[object Object],[object Object]
What does diaspora theory offer? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Snapshots from diaspora theory ,[object Object]
Diaspora is transnational ,[object Object],[object Object]
Diasporic culture is emergent ,[object Object],[object Object]
Diasporic subjectivity is complex ,[object Object],[object Object]
Why  Double  Diaspora? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
1492-ism ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Case studies ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Case studies: what unites them? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Case:  Jacob ben Elazar’s  Love stories ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Ben Elazar’s “Sahar and Kima” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Courtly Romance? ,[object Object]
Sahar and Kima:  Romance (genre) motifs ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Sahar and Kima: disaporic romance ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Case: Solomon ibn Verga (ca. 1520) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Shevet Yehudah  = The Rod (or Tribe) of Judah ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Jewish Humanist History ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Refutation of blood libel accusation in Jeréz ,[object Object]
Refutation of blood libel accusation ,[object Object]
Feats of Kabbalism ,[object Object]
Christians in defense of Jews ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Christians in defense of Jews ,[object Object]
The Double Diasporic turn ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature 1200-1600

Editor's Notes

  1. “ En Sefarad fueron unos gentiles diciendo que hab ían encontrado a un hombre asesinado en casa de un judío. Estaba allí, ante el rey, uno de sus consejeros hablando mal contra los judíos, entonces se animó el pueblo a decir al monarca que si él no hacía justicia, ellos tomarían venganza del muerto con sus manos” (cap. 16, trans. Cano 104)
  2. “ En Sefarad fueron unos gentiles diciendo que hab ían encontrado a un hombre asesinado en casa de un judío. Estaba allí, ante el rey, uno de sus consejeros hablando mal contra los judíos, entonces se animó el pueblo a decir al monarca que si él no hacía justicia, ellos tomarían venganza del muerto con sus manos” (cap. 16, trans. Cano 104)
  3. “ En Sefarad fueron unos gentiles diciendo que hab ían encontrado a un hombre asesinado en casa de un judío. Estaba allí, ante el rey, uno de sus consejeros hablando mal contra los judíos, entonces se animó el pueblo a decir al monarca que si él no hacía justicia, ellos tomarían venganza del muerto con sus manos” (cap. 16, trans. Cano 104)