Though the existence of Jewish regional cultures is widely known,
the origins of the most prominent groups, Ashkenaz and Sepharad,
are poorly understood, and the rich variety of other regional
Jewish identities is often overlooked. Yet all these subcultures
emerged in the Middle Ages. Scholars contributing to the present
study were invited to consider how such regional identities were
fashioned, propagated, reinforced, contested, and reshaped-and to
reflect on the developments, events, or encounters that made these
identities manifest. They were asked to identify how subcultural
identities proved to be useful, and the circumstances in which they
were deployed. The resulting volume spans the ninth to the
sixteenth centuries, and explores Jewish cultural developments in
western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and Asia Minor. In its
own way, each contribution considers factors-demographic,
geographical, historical, economic, political, institutional,
legal, intellectual, theological, cultural, and even
biological-that led medieval Jews to conceive of themselves, or to
be perceived by others, as bearers of a discrete Jewish regional
identity. Notwithstanding the singularity of each essay, they
collectively attest to the inherent dynamism of Jewish regional
identities.
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