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Wacks, David
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(Benjamins, 2016)In this essay, I discuss three Hebrew translations made by Sephardic Jews writing in from a position of a double diaspora (from ‘Zion’ and from Sepharad, or Spain): Joseph Tsarfati’s Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, Jacob ...
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(La corónica, 2014)Summary of biography and scholarly career of Ángel Sáenz-Badillos, prominent Spanish Hebraist
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Vernacular Anxiety and the Semitic Imaginary: Shem Tov Isaac ibn Ardutiel de Carrión and his Critics (Taylor and Francis, 2012)Shem Tov ibn Isaac Ardutiel (Santob de Carrión) lived in the fourteenth century, period of intense vernacularization of literary practice in Castile. Shem Tov has long been imagined as a model of multiculturality, and the ...
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(2011-04-11)Discussion of how current critical thinking about diasporic culture can bring Judaic studies approaches to Sephardic literature up to date. Examples from 13th century Spanish Hebrew (Sephardic) author Jacob ben Elazar and ...
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(2011-02-18)Troubadours both Provencal and Galician Portuguese were regulars at the court of Alfonso X of Castile-Leon (1252-1284). The “Learned King” himself was a prolific composer of Galician-Portuguese verse both sacred and profane ...
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(http://www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/, 2010)Wacks proposes a new, comprehensive look at the Romance context of the Hebrew Literature of Christian Iberia. He surveys the extant criticism and provides an overview of key texts and their relationship to vernacular ...
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(Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2008)Discussion of the position of Spanish Hebrew literature in Spanish Literary History vis-a-vis the history of Spanish Hebraism.
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(Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2004)
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
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(Routledge, 2006-07)
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(CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, 2005)In this article the author compares the exemplo of Don Yllan and the Dean de Santiago, #11 in Don Juan Manuel's Conde Lucanor (ca. 1335) with an earlier Hebrew analogue found in the Hebrew Meshal Haqadmoni (ca. 1285) of ...