RT Article
T1 The Queen of Herbs: A Plant’s-Eye View of the Sephardic Diaspora
JF The Jewish quarterly review
VO 112
IS 1
SP 119
OP 138
A1 Stein, Sarah Abrevaya
LA English
PB Penn Press
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1795329386
AB This ethnobotanical, historical study explores modern Sephardic Jews’ abiding affection for ruta graveolens, rue, or ruda (as it is known in Ladino). Folkloric writing on ruda has emphasized the immutability of Mediterranean Jewish folkways, but ruda has a history that reveals how a plant can further a particular diaspora—not the Jewish diaspora from biblical Israel, nor the Sephardic diaspora from medieval Iberia, but the Jewish diaspora from the modern Ottoman Balkans. Ruda offers a fresh perspective on the caterwaul of change engulfing modern Sephardim, refocusing attention from politics to the intimate, tactile, and gendered.
K1 Women
K1 Sephardic
K1 Sephardim
K1 Seattle
K1 Rhodesli
K1 Rhodes
K1 Plants
K1 Ottoman Empire
K1 Migration
K1 Los Angeles
K1 Ladino
K1 Gender
K1 gardens and gardening
K1 Folklore
K1 ethnobotany
K1 Diaspora
K1 Botany
DO 10.1353/jqr.2022.0004