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Title

Jewish culture in early modern Europe : essays in honor of David B. Ruderman / edited by Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Adam Shear, and Elchanan Reiner.

Publication

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Ruderman, David B.
• Cohen, Richard I.
• Dohrmann, Natalie B.
• Shear, Adam
• Reiner, Elchanan

Description

xxvi, 378 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

Thirty-one leading scholars both within and beyond Jewish studies advance, refine, and challenge how we understand the Jewish early modern period. The collection includes a comprehensive range of topics, beginning by examining authority structures of Jewish communities following the expulsions and migrations that reshaped the geographical contours of the Jewish world. The formation of Jewish communities, communal autonomy, and cultural representations of leadership are explored, pointing to a geographical remapping of a Jewish early modernity that can contribute to a better understanding of the integrated economic and cultural landscape of the time.--

Subject

• 1500-1799
• Jews > Europe > History > 18th century
• Jews > Europe > History > 17th century
• Jews > Europe > History > 16th century
• Jews > Civilization
• Judaism > Relations
• Civilization, Modern > Jewish influences
• Europe > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I.Realms Of Authority: Conflict And Adaptation -- Continuity or Change -- The Case of Two Prominent Jewish Portuguese Clans in the Ottoman Empire / Joseph R. Hacker -- Don't Mess with Messer Leon -- Halakhah and Humanism in Fifteenth-Century Italy / Elliott Horowitz -- Jews and Habsburgs in Prague and Regensburg -- On the Political and Cultural Significance of Solomon Molkho's Relics / Matt Goldish -- Jewish Women in the Wake of the Chmielnicki Uprising -- Gzeires Tah-Tat as a Gendered Experience / Adam Teller -- For God and Country -- Jewish Identity and the State in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam / Benjamin Fisher -- "A Civil Death" -- Sovereignty and the Jewish Republic in an Early Modern Treatment of Genesis 49:10 / Anne Oravetz Albert -- II.Knowledge Networks -- The Hebrew Bible and the Senses in Late Medieval Spain / Talya Fishman -- Printing Kabbalah in Sixteenth-Century Italy / Moshe Idel -- Persecution and the Art of Printing -- Hebrew Books in Italy in the 1550s / Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin -- Kabbalah and the Diagrammatic Phase of the Scientific Revolution / J. H. (Yossi) Chajes -- Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo's Engagement with Atomism -- Some Further Explorations into a Knotty Problem / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- III."Jews" And "Judaism" In The Early Modern European Imagination -- The Theater of Creation and Re-creation / Giuseppe Mazzotta -- Weeping over Erasmus in Hebrew and Latin / Joanna Weinberg -- "Fair Measures from Our Region" -- The Study of Jewish Antiquities in Renaissance Italy / Andrew Berns -- Christian Hebraism and the Rediscovery of Hellenistic Judaism / Anthony Grafton -- Jews, Nobility, and Usury in Luther's Europe / Jonathan Karp -- "Adopt This Person So Totally Born Again" -- Elias Schadeus and the Conversion of the Jews / Debra Kaplan -- The Conservative Hybridity of Miguel de Barrios / Adam Sutcliffe -- Le Don Quichotte d'Antônio Jose Da Silva, les Marionnettes -- du Bairro Alto et les Prisons de L'Inquisition / Roger Chartier -- IV.The Long Eighteenth Century In An Early Modern Key -- The Collapse of Jacob's Ladders? -- A Suggested Perspective on the Problem of Secularization on the Eve of the Enlightenment / Michael Heyd -- A Jew from the East Meets Books from the West / Yaacob Dweck -- Printing, Fundraising, and Jewish Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Livorno / Francesca Bregoli -- An Interpretive Tradition -- Connecting Europe and the "East" in the Eighteenth Century / Andrea Schatz -- Gibbon's Jews -- Dead but Alive in Eighteenth-Century England / David S. Katz -- The "Happy Time" of Moses Mendelssohn and the Transformative Year 1782 / Shmuel Feiner -- A Tale of Three Generations -- Shifting Attitudes toward Haskalah, Mendelssohn, and Acculturation / Sharon Flatto -- An Underclass in Jewish History? -- Jewish Maidservants in East European Jewish Society, 1700 -- 1900 / Rebecca Kobrin -- V.From The Early Modern To The Late Modern (And Back Again) -- Did North American Jewry Have an Early Modern Period? / Beth S. Wenger -- Language and Periodization -- Mendele Moykher Sforim and the Revival of Pre-Haskalah Style / Israel Bartal -- The End or the Beginning -- Jewish Modernity and the Reception of Rahel Varnhagen / Vivian Liska -- Between Yitzhak Baer and Claudio Sanchez Albornoz -- The Rift That Never Healed / Yosef Kaplan.

ISBN

• 9780822944331 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0822944332 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2014008210
• 40023995451

OCLC

• 871689538
• SCSB-11629215

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library