The Martyrdom of a Moroccan Jewish Saint

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20700-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies

The martyrdom in 1834 of Sol Hatchuel, a Jewish girl from Tangier, traumatized the Jewish community and inspired a literary response in Morocco and beyond. This study focuses on works written in the first century after her death in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Spanish, Spanish and French that tell her story and interpret its meaning. The author places both the event and the texts that narrate it in their historical context and show how its significance changed in each language and literary setting. The texts, prose and poetic laments by North African rabbis and a romantic feuilleton from the Judeo-Spanish press, and their historical settings reveal the complex relations between Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century and the intersection between religious polemics and gender discourse.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Jewish Muslim relations in the 19th Century, North African and Jewish history, rabbinic literature, gender discourse and interreligious polemics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vance, Sharon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter One: The Many Lives of Sol Hatchuel
Chapter Two: The Limits of Protection: The Execution in Historical Context
Chapter Three: The Tale of the Martyred Maiden
Chapter Four: 'As an Ewe Before her Shearers': The Hebrew Elegies
Chapter Five: The Fallen Gazelle
Chapter Six: The Sacrificed Lovers: Sol's Story in the Judeo-Spanish Newspaper La Epoka
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Vance, Sharon
Sharon Vance, Ph.D. (2005) in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, is an Assistant Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University. She has published articles in Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa (Indiana University Press, forthcoming) and Genesis Revista della Società Italiana della Storiche, as well as in the Encyclopaedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill, 2010).