Feminist Research Alliance Workshop: Sharona Fredrick, “Sephardic Jewish Legends of Lilith from Spain and the Spanish Americas”
UB Gender Institute 207 UB Commons - University at Buffalo - North Campus, Buffalo, NYSharonah Fredrick, Clinical Assistant Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures The sexual image of Lilith, (Adam’s spurned and vampirical first wife) in the Judeo-Spanish Kabalah, and the tales of her exile from Eden, became a metaphor for the Jews and Muslims expelled from Spanish soil after 1492. Gender-wise, the Lilith legends were transformed in the New […]