Product Description: In offering a comprehensive account of Syria's key Jewish communities at an important juncture in their history, this pioneering study - now available in paperback - also throws light on the broader effects of modernization in the Ottoman empire...read more

Product Description: To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research, previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now known as Israel.Abraham David here focuses on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th century, tracing the beginnings of Sephardic influence in the land of Israel...read more

Product Description: To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research, previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now known as Israel.Abraham David here focuses on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th century, tracing the beginnings of Sephardic influence in the land of Israel...read more

Product Description: Translated by Leon J. Weinberger with Dena Ordan"This slender anonymous work, spanning 1389 to 1611, presents the priorities and concerns of a Jewish community straddling the late medieval and early modern periods. Ample footnotes and explanations provide the lay reader with sufficient background to understand the references to historical events and figures, to ideologies and to institutions...read more

Product Description: The author addresses a relatively neglected but central component of the act of prayer: its nonverbal aspects, represented by such features as the worshiper's gestures, attire and shoes, and vocal expression. In the first part of this book, the author engages in a two-tiered examination of nine nonverbal elements integral to the rabbinic Amidah prayer: a detailed historical-geographical consideration of their development, followed by an analysis of each gesture's signification, the crux of this study...read more

Describes how Sephardic Jews settled in Ottoman Jerusalem and Safed, and their effect on the area (view table of contents)