Introduction; Chapter 1 The Wind in the Palace: The Initial Responses of Sephardim and Ashkenazim Compared; Chapter 2 Modernist Traditionalists — Elijah Bekhor ?azzan & Raphael Aaron Ben Simeon: Their Thought and Oeuvre; Chapter 3 “My Heart’s in the East” — Sephardi Zionism; Chapter 4 After Modernity: Popular Reassertions, Ashkenazified Religiosity, and other Contemporary Trends;
Norman A. Stillman is Schusterman/Josey Professor of Judaic History at the University of Oklahoma and is an internationally recognized authority on the history and culture of the Islamic world and on Sephardi and Oriental Jewry.