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and the old world architecture that have defined the Lower East Side for generations

He closes by asking why so many American Jewish writers have resisted that category

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Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination Edited by Yael Halevi-Wise Sale Books commercialIn this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor. Since the nineteenth century, this metaphor has occurred with extraordinary frequency in works by authors from a variety of ethnicities, religions, and nationalities in Europe, the Americas, North Africa, Israel, and even India. Sephardism asks why Gentile and Jewish writers and cultural figures have chosen to draw upon the medieval