Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry : from the Golden Age of Spain to modern times / edited by Zion Zohar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sephardic Jewry in the Middle Ages : origins, development, and flowering. A global perspective on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry : an introductory essay / Zion Zohar ; The origins of Sephardic Jewry in the medieval Arab world / Mark R. Cohen ; The Judeo-Arabic heritage / Norman A. Stillman ; Judeo-Spanish culture in medieval and modern times / David M. Bunis ; Literatures of medieval Sepharad / Johnathan P. Decter ; Medieval Sephardic-oriental Jewish Bible exegesis : the contributions of Saadia Gaon and Abraham ibn Ezra / Isaac Kalimi ; Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah in Spain / Moshe Idel -- From expulsion to the modern era : exile, decline, and revival. Hispanic culture in exile : Sephardic life in the Ottoman Balkans / Annette B. Fromm ; Sephardic jurisprudence in the recent half-millennium / Zvi Zohar ; Safed Kabbalah and the Sephardic heritage / Morris M. Faierstein ; Jewish women in the Ottoman Empire / Paméla Dorn Sezgin -- Sephardic Jewry in the modern era and special topics. Early modern Sephardim and Blacks : contact and conflict between two minorities / Jonathan Schorsch ; Diversity and uniqueness : an introduction to Sephardic liturgical music / Mark Kligman - A double occlusion : Sephardim and the Holocaust / Henry Abramson ; Sephardim and oriental Jews in Israel : rethinking the sociopolitical paradigm / Zion Zohar.