Introduction : through the prism of Sepharad : modern nationalism, literary history, and the impact of the Sephardic experience / Yael Halevi-Wise -- The myth of Sephardic supremacy in nineteenth-century Germany / Ismar Schorsch -- Writing Spanish history in nineteenth-century Britain : the Inquisition and "the secret race" / Michael Ragussis -- "Rachel, ou l'Auto-da-fé" : representations of Jews and the Inquisition in the French grand opera La juive (1835) / Diana R. Hallman -- The strange career of the Abarbanels from Heine to the Holocaust / Jonathan Skolnik -- Sephardim and neo-Sephardim in Latin American literature / Edna Aizenberg -- The life and times of the picaro-converso from Spain to Latin America / Yael Halevi-Wise -- Facing Sepharad, facing Israel and Spain : Yehuda Burla and Antonio Gala's Janus profiles of national reconstitution / Stacy N. Beckwith -- Sephardic identity and its discontents : the novels of A.B. Yehoshua / Bernard Horn -- "Le juif espagnol" : the idea of Sepharad among colonial and postcolonial Francophone Jewish writers / Judith Roumani -- Sephardism in Latina literature / Dalia Kandiyoti -- Sir Salman Rushdie sails for India and rediscovers Spain : postmodern constructions of Sepharad / Efraim Sicher -- Postscript : Rebecca Goldstein's Spinoza / Yael Halevi-Wise.
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Sephardism [electronic resource] : Spanish Jewish history and the modern literary imagination / edited by Yael Halevi-Wise.