Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Content -- PART ONE: History and Philosophy -- Sephardic Settlement in Ferrara under the House of Este -- The Universita Degli Hebrei and the Nationi of the Venice Ghetto (1516-1630): A Reconsideration of Some Presuppositions of Contemporary Jewish Historiography -- On the Concept of Beauty in the Philosophy of Yehudah Abrabanel -- The Conventionalization of Social Bonds and the Strategies of Jewish Society in the Thirteenth Century -- The Jewish Quarter and the Moroccan City -- Literature as a Source for the History of Libyan Jewry During the Ottoman Period -- A "Maskil" in Aleppo: "The Torah of Israel and the People of Israel" by Rabbi Yitzhak Dayyan (Aleppo, 5683/1923) -- The Periodization of the History of the New Christians and Crypto, Jews in Spanish America -- Cryptojews in Rio de la Plata in the Seventeenth Century -- PART TWO: Language and Literature -- Introduction -- Camilo Castelo Branco and the Portuguese Inquisition -- The Inquisition and the Jewin Lat in American Drama -- The Inquisition and the Jew in Latin American Drama -- Anthroponyms in the Collection of Moroccan Sephardic Ballads -- "Plazeme de tus Enojos": Alfonso Alvarez de Villasandino against Alfonso Ferrandes Semuel -- Maimonides, Al-Andalus and the Influence of the Spanish-Arabic Dialect on His Language -- Uncovering the Origins of the Judeo-Ibero-Romance Languages -- Problems of Transcribing Sephardic Texts into the Roman Alphabet -- PART THREE: Ethnography and Folklore -- Memories of Jewish Life -- Misogyny or Philogyny: The Case of a Judeo, Spanish Folktale -- Customs of Pregnancy and Childbirth among Sephardic and Oriental Jews -- A Conversation in Proverbs: Judeo-Spanish Refranes in Context -- Expressive Modes in the Judeo-Spanish Wedding Song.

The Music of the Songs: Musical Transcriptions and Commentary of the Songs Discussed by Oro Anahory-Librowicz in "Expressive Modes in the Judeo-Spanish Wedding Song" -- Back Matter -- Contributors.