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Auteur(s) : Efron, John M.
Titre(s) : German Jewry and the allure of the Sephardic [Texte imprimé] / John M. Efron
Publication : Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton University Press, copyright 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (343 p.) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 291-320. Index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Haskala -- Allemagne
Juifs -- Vie intellectuelle -- Allemagne -- 18e siècle
Juifs -- Vie intellectuelle -- Allemagne -- 19e siècle
Juifs -- Identité collective -- Allemagne -- 18e siècle
Juifs -- Identité collective -- Allemagne -- 19e siècle
Séfarades -- Moeurs et coutumes
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.892 4043 (23e éd.) = Sociologie des Juifs - Europe centrale Allemagne
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691167749. - ISBN 0691167745 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46971658h
Notice n° :
FRBNF46971658
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The sound of Jewish Modernity: Sephardic Hebrew and the Berlin Haskalah ; "Castilian
pride and oriental dignity": Sephardic beauty in the eye of the Ashkenazic Beholder
; Of Minarets and Menorahs: The building of oriental synagogues ; Pleasure Reading:
Sephardic Jews and the German-Jewish Literary imagination ; Writing Jewish History:
The construction of a glorious Sephardic Past.
