Introduction : through the prism of Sepharad : modern nationalism, literary history, and the impact of the Sephardic experience / Yael Halevi-Wise The myth of Sephardic supremacy in nineteenth-century Germany / Ismar Schorsch Writing Spanish history in nineteenth-century Britain : the Inquisition and "the secret race" / Michael Ragussis "Rachel, ou l'Auto-da-fé" : representations of Jews and the Inquisition in the French grand opera La juive (1835) / Diana R. Hallman The strange career of the Abarbanels from Heine to the Holocaust / Jonathan Skolnik Sephardim and neo-Sephardim in Latin American literature / Edna Aizenberg The life and times of the picaro-converso from Spain to Latin America / Yael Halevi-Wise Facing Sepharad, facing Israel and Spain : Yehuda Burla and Antonio Gala's Janus profiles of national reconstitution / Stacy N. Beckwith Sephardic identity and its discontents : the novels of A.B. Yehoshua / Bernard Horn "Le juif espagnol" : the idea of Sepharad among colonial and postcolonial Francophone Jewish writers / Judith Roumani Sephardism in Latina literature / Dalia Kandiyoti Sir Salman Rushdie sails for India and rediscovers Spain : postmodern constructions of Sepharad / Efraim Sicher Postscript : Rebecca Goldstein's Spinoza / Yael Halevi-Wise. |