Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora

Contents

Introduction: What is a Family?

I. Reconstructing Sephardi Family Life in the
Ottoman Empire: The Exiles of 1492

1. Communal Pride and Feminine Virtue: “Suspecting Sivlonot”
in the Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire in the
Early Sixteenth Century

HANNAH DAVIDSON

2. Mothers and Children as Seen by Sixteenth-Century
Rabbis in the Ottoman Empire

RUTH LAMDAN

II. Western Sephardi Households: Women, Children,
and Life-Cycle Events

3. Religious Space, Gender, and Power in the Sephardi Diaspora:
The Return to Judaism of New Christian Men and Women
in Livorno and Pisa

CRISTINA GALASSO

4. Childhood and Family among the Western
Sephardim in the Seventeenth Century

JULIA R. LIEBERMAN

5. Sephardi Women in Holland’s Golden Age

TIRTSAH LEVIE BERNFELD

III. Judeoconverso Families in the Diaspora:
Cultural Commuting between Christianity and Judaism

6. Researching the Childhood of “New Jews” of the Western
Sephardi Diaspora in Light of Recent Historiography

DAVID GRAIZBORD

List of Abbreviations