Isaac Jack Lévy, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Spanish
Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina and
founder of the American Society of Sephardic Studies, is the author
of And the World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the
Holocaust, Jewish Rhodes: A Lost Culture, and Prolegomena to
the Study of the "Refranero Sefardi."Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt,
Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College at Agnes
Scott College and president of the Fellows of the American Folklore
Society, is the author of Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews
Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist and American Folklore
Scholarship: A Dialog of Dissent.
"[Lévy and Zumwalt] bring a wide perspective to their study." --
Choice
"This is an important study on the role of women in the life of the
community, the family, and individuals, and on their involvement in
ensuring the physical and spiritual health of their acquaintances.
... This is an important contribution to the study of Jewish women,
the role of women in the well-being of the community, folk
medicine, and folklore." -- Rachel Simon, Religious Studies
Review
"This well-written book makes a significant contribution to the
study of the folklore of the Levantine Sephardim. The authors have
a unique vantage point on a Sephardic world that is fast vanishing,
if not vanished. They will be among the last scholars to do
significant fieldwork in this area, and their testimony will be a
useful mine for scholars for many years to come."--David Martin
Gitlitz, author of Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of Crypto-Jew
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