USC Libraries

Scope and Content From the Series: Sephardic studies refers specifically to the Jewish community which originated on the Iberian Peninsula at the start of the second millennium. More broadly, Sephardim includes the traditionally Eastern Jewish communities of West Asia and beyond who, although not having genealogical roots in the Jewish communities of Iberia, have adopted a Sephardic style of liturgy and Sephardic law and customs imparted to them by the Iberian Jewish exiles over the course of the last few centuries. The...

Scope and Content From the Series: Many of Moshe Lazar’s areas of interest and expertise are grouped together in the series “Special Subjects,” although there is considerable overlap with the other eighteen series. The seven boxes which comprise this series cover many topics including Samuel Beckett, Hieronymus Bosch, Marc Chagall, Courtly Love, Heaven and Hell, Italian Jewry, Jewish History, Arnold Schoenberg, and many other subjects. One particular subject of note is referred to simply as “Girona” from Lazar’s own...

Scope and Content From the Series: Sephardic studies refers specifically to the Jewish community which originated on the Iberian Peninsula at the start of the second millennium. More broadly, Sephardim includes the traditionally Eastern Jewish communities of West Asia and beyond who, although not having genealogical roots in the Jewish communities of Iberia, have adopted a Sephardic style of liturgy and Sephardic law and customs imparted to them by the Iberian Jewish exiles over the course of the last few centuries. The...