“As if she were Jerusalem”: Placemaking in Sephardic Salonica
No Mediterranean city witnessed as dramatic a demographic shift as Salonica following the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia in 1492. This article explores the specific concept of placemaking in the context of this transformation, examining how the industries, devotional spaces, mythology, and materi...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2014
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Muqarnas
Année: 2014, Volume: 30, Numéro: 1, Pages: 141-169 |
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Salonica (Thessaloniki)
Iberia
Séfarades
Mediterraneity
synagogue
Haggadot
immigration
multiculturalism
wool
garb
color schema
urban layers
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| Résumé: | No Mediterranean city witnessed as dramatic a demographic shift as Salonica following the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia in 1492. This article explores the specific concept of placemaking in the context of this transformation, examining how the industries, devotional spaces, mythology, and material traditions of Iberian Jews tactically engaged with extant forms of Ottoman multicultural governance and social systems. Drawing upon a broad array of visual and textual information, this article argues that under the evolving mechanics of the millet and dhimmi systems, the nimbler aspects of material culture–color, fabric, dress, spoliation–proved to be the most effective in articulating and developing diasporic Sephardic identity within both the city and the empire. This article further analyzes the ways in which this identity was capable of, if not inclined to, the delimiting of regional, class, and gender groups, ultimately contouring and challenging notions of a monolithic minority culture within the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-8993 |
| Contient: | In: Muqarnas
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22118993-0301P0007a |