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5:30 pm

John Efron’s “Appearance Counts: Sephardic Jewry and the Creation of a German-Jewish Aesthetic”

September 14, 2017 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
GTU Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA 94709 United States
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Focusing on the period spanning the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, this talk explores the special place German-Jewish culture accorded medieval Spanish Jewry. In a broad array of cultural forms and genres, a portrait emerged that promoted an image of Sephardim as attractive, morally and intellectually superior, and worthy of emulation while the […]

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