The Festschrift Darkhei Noam: The Jews of Arab Lands
Leiden: Brill, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xi, (1), 273, (1)pp. Index and bibliography of works by Stillman. Text in English with some Hebrew and Arabic. Decorative brown boards, lettered in white, with purple headband. Illustrated with a color frontispiece of Stillman, color text photo and printed music. A fine, as new copy.
The Festschrift Darkhei Noam: The Jews of Arab Lands presented to Norman (Noam) Stillman offers a coherent and thought-provoking discussion by eminent scholars in the field of both the history and culture of the Jews in the Islamic World from pre-modern to modern times. Based on primary sources the book speaks to the resilience, flexibility, and creativity of Jewish culture in Arab lands.
The volume clearly addresses the areas of research Norman Stillman himself has considerably contributed to. Research foci of the book are on the flexibility of Jewish law in real life, Jewish cultural life particularly on material and musical culture, the role of women in these different societies, antisemitism and Jewish responses to hatred against the Jews, and antisemitism from ancient martyrdom to modern political Zionism. (Publisher)
Contents: Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Festschrift Darkhei Noam: An Introduction; Chapter 1 Karaite and Sadducee Inheritance Law in Light of Yefet ben Elī's Commentary on Genesis 36; Chapter 2 Apes and the Sabbath Problem; Chapter 3 Notes on the Islamic Toponymy of the Holy Land and Holy City; Chapter 4 A Look at Women's Lives in Cairo Geniza Society; Chapter 5 The "Custom of the Merchants" in Gaonic Jurisprudence and in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah; Chapter 6 Yiṣhaq-i Kamāl-A Martyr in Bukhārā.; Chapter 7 "Those Who Walk in the Court of Our Master the King": The Sephardic Courtier Tradition RevisitedChapter 8 Deniers et marchandises : le financement commercial des juifs portugais à Bayonne au XVIIIe siècle; Chapter 9 A Pioneer Publication in Context: Abraham Zevi Idelsohn's Gesänge der Marokkanischen Juden (1928/9); Chapter 10 Two Judeo-Arabic Translations of the Scroll of Antiochus from Ghardaïa (Algeria); Chapter 11 Secular Trends and Tradition: Post-Immigration Debates and Practices among Yemeni Jews; Chapter 12 Max Nordau: The Post-Herzl Years. (OCLC)
Volume 55 in the "Brill Series in Jewish Studies" Fine. Item #52013
ISBN: 9789004300903
Price: $75.00