Biale, David

Cultures of the Jews Volume III : Modern Encounters

List of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Preface: Toward a Cultural History of the Jews xv David Biale Introduction 3(6) David Biale Urban Visibility and Biblical Visions: Jewish Culture in Western and Central Europe in the Modern Age 9(68) Richard I. Cohen A Journey Between Worlds: East European Jewish Culture from the Partitions of Poland to the Holocaust 77(64) David Biale The Ottoman Diaspora: The Rise and Fall of Ladino Literary Culture 141(24) Aron Rodrigue Multicultural Visions: The Cultural Tapestry of the Jews of North Africa 165(46) Lucette Valensi Challenges to Tradition: Jewish Cultures in Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Bukhara 211(44) Yosef Tobi Religious Interplay on an African Stage: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia 255(34) Hagar Salamon Locus and Language: Hebrew Culture in Israel, 1890--1990 289(52) Ariel Hirschfeld The ``Other'' Israel: Folk Cultures in the Modern State of Israel 341(36) Eli Yassif Declarations of Independence: American Jewish Culture in the Twentieth Century 377(48) Stephen J. Whitfield Conclusion 425(4) David Biale Index 429