Cultures of the Jews: a new history

Preface: Toward a Cultural History of the Jews / David Biale

Pt. 1. Mediterranean Origins

Introduction / David Biale

1. Imagining the Birth of Ancient Israel: National Metaphors in the Bible / Ilana Pardes

2. Israel Among the Nations: Biblical Culture in the Ancient Near East / Ronald S. Hendel

3. Hellenistic Judaism / Erich S. Gruen

4. Jewish Culture in Greco-Roman Palestine / Eric M. Meyers

5. Confronting a Christian Empire: Jewish Culture in the World of Byzantium / Oded Irshai

6. Babylonian Rabbinic Culture / Isaiah Gafni

7. Jewish Culture in the Formative Period of Islam / Reuven Firestone

Pt. 2. Diversities for Diaspora

Introduction / David Biale

1. Merchants and Intellectuals, Rabbis and Poets: Judeo-Arabic Culture in the Golden Age of Islam / Raymond P. Scheindlin

2. Letter to a Wayward Teacher: The Transformations of Sephardic Culture in Christian Iberia / Benjamin R. Gampel

3. Jewish-Christian Symbiosis: The Culture of Early Ashkenaz / Ivan G. Marcus

4. Innovative Tradition: Jewish Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Moshe Rosman

5. Families and Their Fortunes: The Jews of Early Modern Italy / Elliott Horowitz

6. Bom Judesmo: The Western Sephardic Diaspora / Yosef Kaplan

7. Childbirth and Magic: Jewish Folklore and Material Culture / Shalom Sabar

Pt. 3. Modern Encounters

Introduction / David Biale

1. Urban Visibility and Biblical Visions: Jewish Culture in Western and Central Europe in the Modern Age / Richard I. Cohen

2. Journey Between Worlds: East European Jewish Culture from the Partitions of Poland to the Holocaust / David Biale

3. Ottoman Diaspora: The Rise and Fall of Ladino Literary Culture / Aron Rodrigue

4. Multicultural Visions: The Cultural Tapestry of the Jews of North Africa / Lucette Valensi

5. Challenges to Tradition: Jewish Cultures in Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Bukhara / Yosef Tobi

6. Religious Interplay on an African Stage: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia / Hagar Salamon

7. Locus and Language: Hebrew Culture in Israel, 1890-1990 / Ariel Hirschfeld

8. "Other" Israel: Folk Cultures in the Modern State of Israel / Eli Yassif

9. Declarations of Independence: American Jewish Culture in the Twentieth Century / Stephen J. Whitfield

Conclusion / David Biale.