Cultures of the Jews: A New History, Vol. 5 Book

	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Preface: Toward a Cultural History of the Jews
Pt. 1	Mediterranean Origins
	Introduction	3
1	Imagining the Birth of Ancient Israel: National Metaphors in the Bible	9
2	Israel Among the Nations: Biblical Culture in the Ancient Near East	43
3	Hellenistic Judaism	77
4	Jewish Culture in Greco-Roman Palestine	135
5	Confronting a Christian Empire: Jewish Culture in the World of Byzantium	181
6	Babylonian Rabbinic Culture	223
7	Jewish Culture in the Formative Period of Islam	267
Pt. 2	Diversities for Diaspora
	Introduction	305
1	Merchants and Intellectuals, Rabbis and Poets: Judeo-Arabic Culture in the Golden Age of Islam	313
2	A Letter to a Wayward Teacher: The Transformations of Sephardic Culture in Christian Iberia	389
3	A Jewish-Christian Symbiosis: The Culture of Early Ashkenaz	449
4	Innovative Tradition: Jewish Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	519
5	Families and Their Fortunes: The Jews of Early Modern Italy	573
6	Bom Judesmo: The Western Sephardic Diaspora	639
7	Childbirth and Magic: Jewish Folklore and Material Culture	671
Pt. 3	Modern Encounters
	Introduction	725
1	Urban Visibility and Biblical Visions: Jewish Culture in Western and Central Europe in the Modern Age	731
2	A Journey Between Worlds: East European Jewish Culture from the Partitions of Poland to the Holocaust	799
3	The Ottoman Diaspora: The Rise and Fall of Ladino Literary Culture	863
4	Multicultural Visions: The Cultural Tapestry of the Jews of North Africa	887
5	Challenges to Tradition: Jewish Cultures in Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Bukhara	933
6	Religious Interplay on an African Stage: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia	977
7	Locus and Language: Hebrew Culture in Israel, 1890-1990	1011
8	The "Other" Israel: Folk Cultures in the Modern State of Israel	1063
9	Declarations of Independence: American Jewish Culture in the Twentieth Century	1099
	Conclusion	1147
	Index	1151