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Section 1. Political and Social Interactions --Refuge in Morocco after 1492: From Iberian Outcast to Moroccan Dhimmi /Jane S. Gerber --Jews and the Moroccan Monarchy in the Age of Imperialism /Daniel J. Schroeter --Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef and the Jews of Morocco During the Second World War: New Discoveries /Joseph Chetrit --Centering the Margin: Family Networks, Occupational Mobility and Saharan Jews /Aomar Boum --Jewish Bodies, Muslim Bodies, and French Medicine in Morocco /Jonathan G. Katz --Section 2. Cultural Commonalities --Sebaa Ouled Ben Zmirou in Jewish and Muslim Contexts: Return to the Dead and Encounters After Death /José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim --Invisible Neighbors: Demonology Between Jews and Muslims in Morocco /Noam Sienna --A Common Language: Popular Music in Morocco /Vanessa Paloma Elbaz --The Aḥwash: Articulations of a Shared Amazigh (Berber) Cultural Tradition in Morocco and its Diaspora /Sarah Levin --Section 3. Religious Traditions and Halakhic Developments --Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map /Edwin Seroussi --The Image of Morocco in the Poetry of R. David Ben Ḥassin (1727-1792) /André Elbaz --Muslims and Christians in the Writings of 20th Century Hakhamim of Morocco /David Moshe Biton --Traveling Between Place and Faith: Moroccan Jews Migrating to the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century /Michal Ben Ya'akov --Takkanot Concerning the Inheritances of Wives and Daughters among Moroccan Rabbis in the 15th - 20th Centuries /Moche Amar --Rabbi Refael ben Dva"sh: Precursor of Moroccan Legal Activity /Elimelech (Melech) Westreich --Section 4. Memoirs in Word and Image --Memories of Jewish-Muslim Coexistence in the New Mellaḥ of Meknes and Jewish Heritage Conservation in Post-Colonial Morocco /Ahmed Chouari --Growing up in the Mellaḥ of Taroudant:Spaces, Time, Acquaintances and Rupture. A Memoir with Two Poems /Joseph Chetrit --Delacroix and the Jews of Morocco /Maurice Arama.

"From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times is a polyphonic collection of essays in honor of Jane S. Gerber's contributions as a leading scholar and teacher. Each chapter presents new or underappreciated source materials or questions familiar historical models to expand our understanding of Sephardic cultural, intellectual, and social history. The subjects of this volume are men and women, rich and poor, connected to various Sephardic Diasporas--Spanish, Portuguese, North African, or Middle Eastern--from medieval to modern times. They each, in their own way, challenged the expectations of their societies and helped to define the religious, ethnic, and intellectual experience of Sephardim as well as surrounding cultures throughout the world" --