Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Years of a Literary by Diane Matza

By Diane Matza

Those choices, many on hand for the 1st time, span approximately 3 centuries and view subject matters resembling the centrality of relatives lifestyles, the soreness of uprooting from demonstrated groups, collision among culture and assimilation, roles and relationships of guys and girls, and the toxicity of self-hatred. educated through resources starting from biblical literature to old occasions, oral traditions, classical poetics, the beat iteration, and post-modern ironies, those works introduce a literature that, "though small on an absolute scale and little recognized, forces us to take a brand new serious viewpoint on Jewish American writing."

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They were naturally isolated from the Gentile American groups and from the larger Jewish population as well. In response, they reinforced their isolation by creating small societies and congregations within a particular region. It is hardly surprising that they were consistently unresponsive to the urgent calls Page 7 of Sephardic leaders, such as Moise Gadol, the energetic editor of the Judeo-Spanish newspaper, La America, for unity and cohesiveness. The forces working against pan-Sephardism were many and powerful.

This aspect may surprise us because of the well-known rigidity of the patriarchal Sephardic culture, which has consistently defined women as keepers of tradition and submissive wives and daughters. Yet in the established and highly Americanized Sephardic community prior to the Great Migration period, three prominent women writers, Moise, Lazarus, and Meyer, struggled to find the right forum for their work, never questioning their right to be heard or sacrificing their high principles in their writings or in their personal lives.

Like the other colonists around them, however, the Jewish settlers were less concerned with religion than with economic and material matters: American cultureutilitarian, factual, literal, and in New York largely secularhad two major and mutually reinforcing effects on the Jews. 2 Small population size, mercantile ability, and relative ease in a Christian milieu made the Sephardim, they would have said, as American as anyone else. Not surprisingly, Sephardic writers who were descended from this colonial population believed they were cultural insiders: members of a privileged group, the social equals of their Gentile neighbors, fluent in contemporary literary styles, and conversant with local and international issues.

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