Cultures of the Jews, Volume 2 : Diversities of Diaspora

List of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Preface: Toward a Cultural History of the Jews xv David Biale Introduction 3(8) David Biale Merchants and Intellectuals, Rabbis and Poets: Judeo-Arabic Culture in the Golden Age of Islam 11(76) Raymond P. Scheindlin A Letter to a Wayward Teacher: The Transformations of Sephardic Culture in Christian Iberia 87(60) Benjamin R. Gampel A Jewish-Christian Symbiosis: The Culture of Early Ashkenaz 147(70) Ivan G. Marcus Innovative Tradition: Jewish Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 217(54) Moshe Rosman Families and Their Fortunes: The Jews of Early Modern Italy 271(66) Elliott Horowitz Bom Judesmo: The Western Sephardic Diaspora 337(32) Yosef Kaplan Childbirth and Magic: Jewish Folklore and Material Culture 369(52) Shalom Sabar Conclusion 421(4) David Biale Index 425