Jews and the Mediterranean

Matthias Lehmann is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he holds the Teller Family Chair in Jewish History. He is author of Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture, Emissaries from the Holy Land, and (with John Efron and Steve Weitzman) The Jews: A History. Jessica Marglin is Assistant Professor of Religion and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. She is author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco.

Introduction: Jewish History in the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean in Jewish History / Jessica Marglin and Matthias Lehmann


1. Globalization or Culture: The Ancient Jews and the Mediterranean / Seth Schwartz


2. The New Melting Pot? Mediterraneanism and the Study of Jewish History / Jonathan Ray


3. Can we Speak of a Geographical Axis in Medieval Jewish Culture? / Andrew Berns


4. Jews and the Early Modern Mediterranean Slave Trade / Daniel Hershenzon


5. Religious Boundaries in Italy during an Era of Free Trade, 1550-1750: The Case of Livorno / Corey Tazzara


6. A Father's Consolation: Intra-Cultural Ties and Religion in a Trans-Mediterranean Jewish Commercial Network / Francesca Bregoli


7. Soap and the Making of a Short Distance Network in the Nineteenth-Century Adriatic / Constanze Kolbe


8. A Guide to the Jewish Mediterranean: Le Guide Sam and the Shaping of an Interwar Mediterranean Diaspora / Devi Mays


9. A New Myth of Coexistence? The Jewish Mediterranean Dream and the Three Ages of Nostalgia / Clémence Boulouque


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