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  • 1
    Book
    Book
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9781512823837 , 151282383X
    Language: English
    Pages: 343 Seiten , 2 Karten , 23 cm
    Year of publication: 2023
    Series Statement: Jewish culture & contexts (JCX)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ray, Jonathan Jewish life in medieval Spain
    DDC: 946.004924
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    Keywords: Jews History To 1500 ; Juden ; Mittelalter ; Spain Civilization ; Jewish influences ; Spain Ethnic relations To 1500050 ; History ; Spanien
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  • 2
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    Book
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9781512822748
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 291 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Jewish culture and contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dauber, Jonathan Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature
    DDC: 296.1/609
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    Keywords: Cabala History ; Secrecy Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Jewish literature History and criticism ; Mysticism Judaism To 1500 ; History ; Secrecy in literature ; Judaism History Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 ; Avraham ben Daṿid mi-Posḳir ; Yitsḥaḳ Sagi Nahor 1165-1235 ; Ezra ben Solomon -1238 ; Ǎšēr ben Dāwid ; Untergrundliteratur ; Kabbala
    Abstract: "This book examines the strategies of esoteric writing that Kabbalists have used to conceal secrets in their writings, such that casual readers will only understand the surface meaning of their texts while those with greater insight will grasp the internal meaning. In addition to a broad description of esoteric writing throughout the long literary history of Kabbalah, this work analyzes kabbalistic secrecy in light of contemporary theories of secrecy. It also presents case studies of esoteric writing in the work of four of the first Kabbalistic authors and thereby helps recast our understanding of the earliest stages of kabbalistic literary history. The book will interest scholars in Jewish mysticism and Jewish philosophy, as well as to those working in medieval Jewish history. Throughout the book, author Jonathan V. Dauber has endeavored to write an accessible work that does not require extensive prior knowledge of kabbalistic thought. Accordingly, it finds points of contact between scholars of various religious traditions"--
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  • 3
    Book
    Book
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9781512823370
    Language: English
    Pages: 228 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st edition
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Jewish culture and contexts
    DDC: 152.14/5
    Keywords: Blue ; Colors Religious aspects ; History ; Colors Social aspects ; History ; Symbolism of colors History ; Tekhelet (Dye) ; Dyes and dyeing Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Judaism Customs and practices ; History ; Mysticism Judaism ; History
    Abstract: "Are there Jewish colors? This book examines the changing roles and meanings of the color blue in Jewish life. The book demonstrates how the specific color has constituted a means through which Jews have understood themselves throughout history"--
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9780812253764
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 298 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Jewish culture and contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kieval, Hillel J. Blood Inscriptions
    DDC: 305.80094
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    Keywords: Blood accusation History 19th century ; Trials (Murder) History 19th century ; Science and law History 19th century ; Jews Social conditions 19th century ; Europe Ethnic relations 19th century ; History ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Europa ; Ritualmord ; Antisemitismus ; Judenverfolgung ; Strafverfahren ; Geschichte 1882-1902
    Abstract: "Although the Enlightenment had seemed to bring an end to the widely held belief that Jews murdered Christian children for ritual purposes, charges of the so-called blood libel were surprisingly widespread in central and eastern Europe on either side of the turn to the twentieth century. Well over 100 accusations were made against Jews in this period, and prosecutors and government officials in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia broke with long established precedent to bring six of these cases forward in sensational public trials. In Blood Inscriptions Hillel J. Kieval examines four cases-the prosecutions that took place at Tiszaeszlár in Hungary (1882-1883), Xanten in Germany (1891-1892), Polná in Austrian Bohemia (1899-1900), and Konitz, then Germany, now in Poland (1900-1902)-to consider the means by which discredited beliefs came to seem once again plausible to educated European elites"--
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  • 5
    Book
    Book
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812253696
    Language: English
    Pages: 216 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Jewish culture and contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Berns, Andrew D., 1980 - The land is mine
    DDC: 305.892/4046
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc 15th century ; History ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc 16th century ; History ; Bible Commentaries ; History and criticism ; Jews History 15th century ; Jews History 16th century ; Land use History 15th century ; Land use History 16th century ; Land use Biblical teaching ; Land use in the Bible ; Spanien ; Judentum ; Geschichte 1450-1513 ; Sephardim ; Thora ; Kommentar ; Rabbinismus ; Geschichte 1500-1600 ; Bibel ; Rezeption ; Sephardim ; Rabbi ; Schriftsteller ; Geschichte 1450-1600
    Abstract: "The Land Is Mine presents Iberian Jewish intellectuals as deeply concerned with questions about human relationships to land. Based on the biblical commentaries of Sephardi Jews such as Isaac Abravanel, Abraham Saba, and Isaac Arama, rabbis and writers who were exiled from Spain in 1492, the book grounds Jewish exegesis in the moral philosophy, political economy, and environmental changes of this turbulent period"
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9780812299571
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (464 p.) , 0
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Keywords: HISTORY / Jewish ; European History ; History ; Jewish Studies ; Religion ; World History
    Abstract: The overwhelming majority of Jews who laid the foundations of the Israeli state during the first half of the twentieth century came from the Polish lands and the Russian Empire. This is a fact widely known, yet its implications for the history of Israel and the Middle East and, reciprocally, for the history of what was once the demographic heartland of the Jewish diaspora remain surprisingly ill-understood.Through fine-grained analyses of people, texts, movements, and worldviews in motion, the scholars assembled in From Europe's East to the Middle East—hailing from Europe, Israel, Japan, and the United States—rediscover a single transnational Jewish history of surprising connections, ideological cacophony, and entangled fates. Against the view of Israel as an outpost of the West, whether as a beacon of democracy or a creation of colonialism, this volume reveals how profoundly Zionism and Israel were shaped by the assumptions of Polish nationalism, Russian radicalism, and Soviet Communism; the unique ethos of the East European intelligentsia; and the political legacies of civil and national strife in the East European "shatter-zone." Against the view that Zionism effected a complete break from the diaspora that had birthed it, the book sheds new light on the East European sources of phenomena as diverse as Zionist military culture, kibbutz socialism, and ultra-Orthodox education for girls. Finally, it reshapes our understanding of East European Jewish life, from the Tsarist Empire, to independent Poland, to the late Soviet Union. Looking past siloed histories of both Zionism and its opponents in Eastern Europe, the authors reconstruct Zionism's transnational character, charting unexpected continuities across East European and Israeli Jewish life, and revealing how Jews in Eastern Europe grew ever more entangled with the changing realities of Jewish society in Palestine
    Note: Frontmatter , CONTENTS , Introduction , Part I. Imperial and National Crucibles , Chapter 1. “ Little Russia” in Palestine? Imperial Past, National Future (1860–1948) , Chapter 2. From Hyphenated Jews to Independent Jews: The Collapse of the Rus sian Empire and the Change in the Relationship Between Jews and Others , Chapter 3. Jewish Palestine and Eastern Eu rope: I Am in the East and My Heart Is in the West , Chapter 4. Stateless Nation: A Reciprocal Motif Between Polish Nationalism and Zionism , Part II. Groups and Institutions , Chapter 5. The Paradox of Soviet Influence: The Case of Kibbutz Ha- Shomer Ha-Tsa‘ir from the USSR , Chapter 6. Triumphs of Conservatism: Beit Yaakov and the Polish Origins of Haredi Girls’ Education in Israel , Chapter 7. Hasidic Leadership: From Charismatic to Hereditary and Back , Chapter 8. Connecting Poland and Palestine: The Organizational Model of He-Haluts , Part III. Formations of Political Culture , Chapter 9. Israel’s Polish Heritage , Chapter 10. Violenceas Political Experience Among Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland , Chapter 11. From Zionism as Ideology to the Yishuv as Fact: Polish Jewish Re orientations Toward Palestine Within and Beyond Zionism, 1927–1932 , Chapter 12. Hero Shtetls: Reading Civil War Self- Defense in the Yishuv , Part IV. Soviet Interludes , Chapter 13. American Jews and the Zionist Movements in the Soviet Union: The Joint and He- Haluts in Crimea in the 1920s , Chapter 14. Refuseniks and Rights Defenders: Jews and the Soviet Dissident Movement , List of Contributors , Index , Acknowledgments , In English
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  • 7
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    Online Resource
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812297874
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p) , 0
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Brann, Ross, 1949 - Iberian moorings
    Keywords: Exceptionalism ; Jews History To 1500 ; Muslims History To 1500 ; HISTORY / Medieval ; History ; Jewish Studies ; Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; Religion ; Iberische Halbinsel ; al- Andalus ; Politik ; Kultur ; Muslim ; Juden ; Sephardim ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Andalusi and Sefardi Exceptionalism as Tropes of Islamic and Jewish Culture -- Chapter 1. Geography and Destiny: The Genesis of Andalusi Exceptionalism in the Umayyad Caliphal Age -- Chapter 2. Without al- Andalus, There Would Be No Sefarad: The Origins of Sefardi Exceptionalism -- Chapter 3. The Cultural Turn: Andalusi Exceptionalism Through Arabic Adab, Following the Collapse of the Unitary State -- Chapter 4. The Jerusalemite Exile That Is in Sefarad: Sefardi Exceptionalism (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries) -- Chapter 5. Out of Place with Exceptionalism on the Mind: Sefardi and Andalusi Travelers Abroad (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries) -- Conclusion. Andalusi, Sefardi, and Spanish Exceptionalism: Reclaimed, Embraced, Repudiated, Re imagined -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: To Christians the Iberian Peninsula was Hispania, to Muslims al-Andalus, and to Jews Sefarad. As much as these were all names given to the same real place, the names also constituted ideas, and like all ideas, they have histories of their own. To some, al-Andalus and Sefarad were the subjects of conventional expressions of attachment to and pride in homeland of the universal sort displayed in other Islamic lands and Jewish communities; but other Muslim and Jewish political, literary, and religious actors variously developed the notion that al-Andalus or Sefarad, its inhabitants, and their culture were exceptional and destined to play a central role in the history of their peoples.In Iberian Moorings Ross Brann traces how al-Andalus and Sefarad were invested with special political, cultural, and historical significance across the Middle Ages. This is the first work to analyze the tropes of Andalusi and Sefardi exceptionalism in comparative perspective. Brann focuses on the social power of these tropes in Andalusi Islamic and Sefardi Jewish cultures from the tenth through the twelfth century and reflects on their enduring influence and its expressions in scholarship, literature, and film down to the present day
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9780812299625
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Jewish culture and contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Francesconi, Federica Invisible enlighteners
    Keywords: Juden ; Kaufleute ; Soziale Lage ; Modena ; Italien ; Geschichte ; Jewish merchants History 17th century ; Jewish merchants History 18th century ; Jews History 17th century ; Jews History 18th century ; HISTORY / Jewish ; History ; Jewish Studies ; Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; Religion ; Italien ; Judentum ; Juden ; Soziokultur ; Soziale Integration ; Kulturelle Identität ; Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Italien ; Judentum ; Juden ; Soziokultur ; Integration ; Identität ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte 1600-1800
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Spelling, Translations, and Currency -- Map -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Network of Jewish Families in the Early Modern Period The Road Toward Ghettoization -- Chapter 2 Jewish Leaders, Their Circles, and Their Books Before the Inquisition A Parallel Story -- Chapter 3 The Jewish Household Family Networks, Social Control, and Gendered Spaces -- Chapter 4 The "Invisible" Wealth of Silver The Journey of the Formigginis from the Ghetto to the Ducal Court -- Chapter 5 Jewish Female Agency in the Ghetto Mercantile Elite -- Chapter 6 The Jewish Urban Geography of the Ghetto and Beyond -- Chapter 7 Moisè Formiggini Before Napoleon Two Steps Toward Emancipation and One Step Back -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
    Abstract: Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who lived and prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena, capital city of the Este Duchy, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her protagonists are men and women who stood out within their communities but who, despite their cultural and economic prominence, were ghettoized after 1638. Their sociocultural transformation and eventual legal and political integration evolved through a complex dialogue between their Italian and Jewish identities, and without the traumatic ruptures or dramatic divides that led to the assimilation and conversion of many Jews elsewhere in Europe.In Modena, male and female Jewish identities were contoured by both cultural developments internal to the community and engagement with the broader society. The study of Lurianic and Cordoverian Kabbalah, liturgical and nondevotional Hebrew poetry, and Sabbateanism existed alongside interactions with Jesuits, converts, and inquisitors. If Modenese Jewish merchants were absent from the public discourse of the Estes, their businesses lives were nevertheless located at the very geographical and economic center of the city. They lived in an environment that gave rise to unique forms of Renaissance culture, early modern female agency, and Enlightenment practice. New Jewish ways of performing gender emerged in the seventeenth century, giving rise to what could be called an entrepreneurial female community devoted to assisting, employing, and socializing in the ghetto. Indeed, the ghetto leadership prepared both Jewish men and women for the political and legal emancipation they would eventually obtain under Napoleon. It was the cultured Modenese merchants who combined active participation in the political struggle for Italian Jewish emancipation with the creation of a special form of the Enlightenment embedded in scholarly and French-oriented lay culture that emerged within the European context
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 309 - 338 , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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  • 9
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812297997
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrationen
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Karras, Ruth Mazo, 1957 - Thou art the man
    Keywords: Masculinity Religious aspects To 1500 ; Christianity ; History ; Masculinity Religious aspects To 1500 ; Judaism ; History ; Masculinity History To 1500 ; HISTORY / Medieval ; Gender Studies ; History ; Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; Religion ; Religious Studies ; Women's Studies ; David Israel, König ; Motiv ; Europa ; Bibel ; Talmud ; Kommentar ; Volksliteratur ; Liturgie ; Kunst ; Geschichte 800-1500 ; Mann ; Männlichkeit ; Liebe ; Freundschaft ; Vaterschaft ; Sünde ; Sexualität ; Geschichte 800-1500
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. David His Tens of Thousands: Prowess and Piety -- Chapter 2. Surpassing the Love of Women: Love, Friendship, Loyalty Between Men -- Chapter 3. I Have Sinned Against the Lord: Sex and Penitenc -- Chapter 4. With Sacred Music upon the Harp: Creativity and Ecstasy -- Chapter 5. O My Son Absalom: Establishing a Dynasty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: "How do we approach the study of masculinity in the past?" Ruth Mazo Karras asks. Medieval documents that have come down to us tell a great deal about the things that men did, but not enough about what they did specifically as men, or what these practices meant to them in terms of masculinity. Yet no less than in our own time, masculinity was a complicated construct in the Middle Ages.In Thou Art the Man, Karras focuses on one figure, King David, who was important in both Christian and Jewish medieval cultures, to show how he epitomized many and sometimes contradictory aspects of masculine identity. For late medieval Christians, he was one of the Nine Worthies, held up as a model of valor and virtue; for medieval Jews, he was the paradigmatic king, not just a remnant of the past, but part of a living heritage. In both traditions he was warrior, lover, and friend, founder of a dynasty and a sacred poet. But how could an exemplar of virtue also be a murderer and adulterer? How could a physical weakling be a great warrior? How could someone whose claim to the throne was not dynastic be a key symbol of the importance of dynasty? And how could someone who dances with slaves be noble?Exploring the different configurations of David in biblical and Talmudic commentaries, in Latin, Hebrew, and vernacular literatures across Europe, in liturgy, and in the visual arts, Thou Art the Man offers a rich case study of how ideas and ideals of masculinity could bend to support a variety of purposes within and across medieval cultures
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 161 - 293 , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9780812299595
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 p) , 14 map2s, 24 tables, 28 halftones
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Keywords: Jews History ; Jews Social conditions ; History ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Bohemia ; Bohemian Lands ; Franz Kafka ; Hapsburg Empire ; Jewish History ; Jews and Czechoslovakia ; Jews and Prague ; Jews in Eastern Europe ; Masaryk and Jews ; Moravia ; Slovakia ; Theresienstadt
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowl edgments -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. The Jews of the Bohemian Lands in Early Modern Times -- Chapter 2. Absolutism and Control: Jews in the Bohemian Lands in the Eigh teenth Century -- Chapter 3. Unequal Mobility: Jews, State, and Society in an Era of Contradictions, 1790–1860 -- Chapter 4. Contested Equality: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1861–1917 -- Chapter 5. Becoming Czechoslovaks: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1917–38 -- Chapter 6. The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia -- Chapter 7. Periphery and Center: Jews in the Bohemian Lands from 1945 to the Pre sent -- Appendix. The Demographic Development of Jewish Settlement in Selected Communities in the Bohemian Lands -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index
    Abstract: Prague's magnificent synagogues and Old Jewish Cemetery attract millions of visitors each year, and travelers who venture beyond the capital find physical evidence of once vibrant Jewish communities in towns and villages throughout today's Czech Republic. For those seeking to learn more about the people who once lived and died at those sites, however, there has until now been no comprehensive account in English of the region's Jews.Prague and Beyond presents a new and accessible history of the Jews of the Bohemian Lands written by an international team of scholars. It offers a multifaceted account of the Jewish people in a region that has been, over the centuries, a part of the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy, was constituted as the democratic Czechoslovakia in the years following the First World War, became the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and later a postwar Communist state, and is today's Czech Republic. This ever-changing landscape provides the backdrop for a historical reinterpretation that emphasizes the rootedness of Jews in the Bohemian Lands, the intricate variety of their social, economic, and cultural relationships, their negotiations with state power, the connections that existed among Jewish communities, and the close, if often conflictual, ties between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors.Prague and Beyond is written in a narrative style with a focus on several unifying themes across the periods. These include migration and mobility; the shape of social networks; religious life and education; civic rights, citizenship, and Jewish autonomy; gender and the family; popular culture; and memory and commemorative practices. Collectively these perspectives work to revise conventional understandings of Central Europe's Jewish past and present, and more fully capture the diversity and multivalence of life in the Bohemian Lands
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9780812297515
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.) , 7 illus
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    Keywords: Crusades in literature ; Crusades ; Jihad in literature ; Literature, Medieval History and criticism ; Religions Relations To 1500 ; History ; War in literature ; War Religious aspects To 1500 ; History ; HISTORY / Medieval ; European History ; History ; Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; Religion ; World History
    Abstract: In A Pious Belligerence Uri Zvi Shachar examines one of the most contested and ideologically loaded issues in medieval history, the clash between Christians, Muslims, and Jews that we call the Crusades. He does so not to write about the ways these three groups waged war to hold onto their distinct identities, but rather to think about how these identities were framed in relation to one another. Notions of militant piety in particular provided Muslims, Christians, and Jews paths for thinking about both cultural boundaries and codependencies. Ideas about holy warfare, Shachar contends, were not shaped along sectarian lines, but were dynamically coproduced among the three religions.The final decades of the twelfth century saw a rapid collapse of the Frankish and Ayyubid hegemonies in the Levant, followed by struggles for political dominion that lasted for most of the thirteenth century. The fragmented political landscape gave rise to the formation of multiple coalitions across political, religious, and linguistic divides. Alongside a growing anxiety about the instability of cultural boundaries, there emerged a discourse that sought to realign and reevaluate questions of similarity and difference. Where Christians and Muslims regularly joined forces against their own coreligionists, Shachar writes, warriors were no longer assumed to mark or protect lines of physical or political separation. Contemporary authors recounting these events describe a landscape of questionable loyalties, shifting identities, and unstable appearances.Shachar demonstrates how in chronicles, apocalyptic treatises, and a variety of literary texts in Latin, French, Arabic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Arabic holy warriors are increasingly presented as having been rhetorically and anthropologically shaped through their contacts with their neighbors and adversaries. Writers articulated their thoughts about pious warfare through rhetorical devices that crossed confessional lines, and the meaning and force of these articulations lay in their invocation of tropes and registers that had purchase in the various literary communities of the Near East. By the late twelfth century, he argues, there had emerged a notion that threads through Christian, Muslim, and Jewish texts alike: that the Holy Land itself generates a particular breed of pious warriors by virtue of the hybridity that it encompasses
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  • 12
    Book
    Book
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812252880
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 284 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: 〈〈The〉〉 Middle Ages series
    DDC: 946/.00049240902
    Keywords: Exceptionalism / Iberian Peninsula ; Muslims / Iberian Peninsula / History / To 1500 ; Jews / Iberian Peninsula / History / To 1500 ; Iberian Peninsula / Historiography ; Iberian Peninsula / History / To 1500 ; Iberian Peninsula / Civilization / To 1500 ; Civilization ; Exceptionalism ; Historiography ; Jews ; Muslims ; Europe / Iberian Peninsula ; To 1500 ; History ; Andalusien ; Juden ; Geschichte ; Sephardim ; Geschichte 711-1492
    Abstract: This book charts the diachronic dimension of the processes by which Andalusi Muslim and Jewish elites created, asserted, refined, and adapted to new circumstances their respective claims of Andalusi and Sefardi singularity. The historical starting point for this inquiry-the mid-tenth century-is established by the textual evidence that has come down to us. The endpoint of this study's historical parameters is occasioned by social, religious, and political upheaval, collective trauma, and their jarring effects on cultural memory. For the Jews of Sefarad, the mid-twelfth century witnessed disruption within Andalusi Jewish society and transformation of its traditions. It saw the dispersal of most of the Jews of al-Andalus to the Iberian Christian kingdoms, to Provence, and to North Africa, where Andalusi Jewish exiles found refuge and Andalusi Jewish cultural production was relaunched in modified forms. For Andalusi Muslims, the Almohad military defeat at Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212, known in Arabic historiography as the monumental Battle of al-'Iqāb, and the Almohads' ensuing withdrawal from Andalusi territory signaled the end of the classical age of al-Andalus. Within a generation, Córdoba and Seville fell to Castilian control, leaving the Naṣrid kingdom of Granada-all that was left of al-Andalus-as the sole remaining outpost of an Islamic polity and society on Iberian soil down to 1492
    Note: Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite [239]-274 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 13
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    Book
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812251968
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 262 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2020
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Del Soldato, Eva Early Modern Aristotle
    DDC: 185
    Keywords: Aristotle Influence ; History ; Authority History ; Learning and scholarship History ; Europa ; Aristotelismus ; Geschichte 1400-1700
    Abstract: "This book investigates the use and abuse of Aristotle's authority in the early modern period, from both a transnational and an interdisciplinary perspective. Indeed, for as long as he maintained an institutional presence in universities and academies, Aristotle was invoked in writings and treatises that made use of his authority, sometimes through manipulations of his philosophical doctrines, mental experiments, and fanciful narratives of his life"--
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9780812296754
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (392 p) , 1 illus
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bastards and believers
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    Keywords: Jewish converts from Christianity ; Jews Conversion to Christianity ; Conversion Judaism ; History ; Christian converts from Judaism ; Conversion Christianity ; History ; Jewish Christians ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Juden ; Konversion ; Christentum ; Geschichte ; Proselyt ; Geschichte
    Abstract: A formidable collection of studies on religious conversion and converts in Jewish historyTheodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko observe that the term "conversion" is profoundly polysemous. It can refer to Jews who turn to religions other than Judaism and non-Jews who tie their fates to that of Jewish people. It can be used to talk about Christians becoming Muslim (or vice versa), Christians "born again," or premodern efforts to Christianize (or Islamize) indigenous populations of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It can even describe how modern, secular people discover spiritual creeds and join religious communities.Viewing Jewish history from the perspective of conversion across a broad chronological and conceptual frame, Bastards and Believers highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own. The volume begins with Sara Japhet's study of conversion in the Hebrew Bible and ends with Netanel Fisher's essay on conversion to Judaism in contemporary Israel. In between, Andrew S. Jacobs writes about the allure of becoming an "other" in late Antiquity; Ephraim Kanarfogel considers Rabbinic attitudes and approaches toward conversion to Judaism in the Middles Ages; and Paola Tartakoff ponders the relationship between conversion and poverty in medieval Iberia. Three case studies, by Javier Castaño, Claude Stuczynski, and Anne Oravetz Albert, focus on different aspects of the experience of Spanish-Portuguese conversos. Michela Andreatta and Sarah Gracombe discuss conversion narratives; and Elliott Horowitz and Ellie Shainker analyze Eastern European converts' encounters with missionaries of different persuasions.Despite the differences between periods, contexts, and sources, two fundamental and mutually exclusive notions of human life thread the essays together: the conviction that one can choose one's destiny and the conviction that one cannot escapes one's past. The history of converts presented by Bastards and Believers speaks to the possibility, or impossibility, of changing one's life.Contributors: Michela Andreatta, Javier Castaño, Theodor Dunkelgrün, Netanel Fisher, Sarah Gracombe, Elliott Horowitz, Andrew S. Jacobs, Sara Japhet, Ephraim Kanarfogel, Pawel Maciejko, Anne Oravetz Albert, Ellie Shainker, Claude Stuczynski, Paola Tartakoff
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Term Ger and the Concept of Conversion in the Hebrew Bible -- Chapter 2. Ex- Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other -- Chapter 3. Conversion to Judaism as Reflected in the Rabbinic Writings and Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz: Between Germany and Northern France -- Chapter 4. Of Purity, Piety, and Plunder: Jewish Apostates and Poverty in Medieval Eu rope -- Chapter 5. “Cleanse Me from My Sin”: The Social and Cultural Vicissitudes of a Converso Family in Fifteenth- Century Castile -- Chapter 6. Converso Paulinism and Residual Jewishness: Conversion from Judaism to Chris tianity as a Theologico- political Problem -- Chapter 7. Return by Any Other Name: Religious Change Among Amsterdam’s New Jews -- Chapter 8. The Persuasive Path: Giulio Morosini’s Derekh Emunah as a Conversion Narrative -- Chapter 9. “Precious Books”: Conversion, Nationality, and the Novel, 1810–2010 -- Chapter 10. Between European Judaism and British Protestantism in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 11. When Life Imitates Art: Shtetl Sociability and Conversion in Imperial Russia -- Chapter 12. Opposition, Integration, and Ambiguity: Toward a History of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s Policies on Conversion to Judaism -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
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    Online Resource
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812296730
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tartakoff, Paola, 1978 - Conversion, circumcision, and ritual murder in medieval Europe
    Keywords: Antisemitism History To 1500 ; Blood accusation History To 1500 ; Christianity and other religions Judaism To 1500 ; History ; Circumcision Religious aspects To 1500 ; Christianity ; History ; Circumcision Religious aspects To 1500 ; Judaism ; History ; Conversion History To 1500 ; Judaism Relations To 1500 ; Christianity ; History ; HISTORY / Medieval ; Beschneidung ; Ritualmord ; Konversion ; Judentum ; Christentum ; Geschichte 1200-1300
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Usage -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Christian Vulnerabilities -- Chapter 2. From Circumcision to Ritual Murder -- Chapter 3. Christian Conversion to Judaism -- Chapter 4. Return to Judaism -- Chapter 5. Contested Children -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
    Abstract: In 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized and circumcised a five-year-old Christian boy named Edward because they "wanted to make him a Jew." Contemporaneous accounts of the "Norwich circumcision case," as it came to be called, recast this episode as an attempted ritual murder. Contextualizing and analyzing accounts of this event and others, with special attention to the roles of children, Paola Tartakoff sheds new light on medieval Christian views of circumcision. She shows that Christian characterizations of Jews as sinister agents of Christian apostasy belonged to the same constellation of anti-Jewish libels as the notorious charge of ritual murder. Drawing on a wide variety of Jewish and Christian sources, Tartakoff investigates the elusive backstory of the Norwich circumcision case and exposes the thirteenth-century resurgence of Christian concerns about formal Christian conversion to Judaism. In the process, she elucidates little-known cases of movement out of Christianity and into Judaism, as well as Christian anxieties about the instability of religious identity.Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe recovers the complexity of medieval Jewish-Christian conversion and reveals the links between religious conversion and mounting Jewish-Christian tensions. At the same time, Tartakoff does not lose sight of the mystery surrounding the events that spurred the Norwich circumcision case, and she concludes the book by offering a solution of her own. She posits that Christians and Jews understood these events in fundamentally irreconcilable ways, illustrating the chasm that separated Christians and Jews in a world in which some Christians and Jews knew each other intimately
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    ISBN: 9780812252392
    Language: English
    Pages: 239 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Jewish culture and contexts
    DDC: 362.5/82094309032
    Keywords: Jews / Germany / Charities / History ; Jews / Charitable contributions / Germany / History ; Jews / Germany / Social life and customs / History ; Judaism / Charities / History ; Poor / Germany / Social conditions ; Jews / Germany / Social conditions ; Ashkenazim / Germany / Social conditions ; Jews / Charitable contributions ; Jews / Charities ; Jews / Social conditions ; Jews / Social life and customs ; Poor / Social conditions ; Germany ; History ; Deutschland ; Jüdische Gemeinde ; Sozialgeschichte 1500-1800 ; Judentum ; Wohlfahrt ; Fürsorge ; Spende ; Geschichte 1500-1800
    Abstract: "Patterns of giving tell us about both donors and recipients-not only about their finances but about their values, perceptions, roles in society, and the dynamics of power that existed between and among those who gave and those who received. The Patrons and Their Poor uses the lens of public charity to provide an intimate portrait of the early modern Ashkenazic community. The prism of charity allows for this expanded view of daily life in the Jewish community"--
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    ISBN: 9780812250916
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 318 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: Jewish culture and contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Connecting histories
    DDC: 940/.04924
    Keywords: Jews Social life and customs To 1500 ; Jews Identity To 1500 ; History ; Judaism Relations To 1500 ; Christianity ; History ; Christianity and other religions Judaism To 1500 ; History ; Europe Ethnic relations To 1500 ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Juden ; Geschichte 1500-1750
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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812295917
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 2 maps
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    Keywords: Justice, Administration of History To 1500 ; Jews Legal status, laws, etc To 1500 ; History ; Jews Social conditions To 1500 ; History ; HISTORY / Medieval
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Usage -- Introduction. Networks of Jewish Life in Venetian Crete -- Chapter 1. The Jewish Community of Candia -- Chapter 2. Jewish-Christian Relations, Inside and Outside the Jewish Quarter -- Chapter 3. Colonial Justice and Jewish-Christian Encounter -- Chapter 4. Jewish Choice and the Secular Courtroom -- Chapter 5. Marriage on Trial -- Chapter 6. Inviting the State into the Kahal -- Conclusion. Crete’s Jewish Renaissance Men in Context -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
    Abstract: When Venice conquered Crete in the early thirteenth century, a significant population of Jews lived in the capital and main port city of Candia. This community grew, diversified, and flourished both culturally and economically throughout the period of Venetian rule, and although it adhered to traditional Jewish ways of life, the community also readily engaged with the broader population and the island's Venetian colonial government.In Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete, Rena N. Lauer tells the story of this unusual and little-known community through the lens of its flexible use of the legal systems at its disposal. Grounding the book in richly detailed studies of individuals and judicial cases—concerning matters as prosaic as taxation and as dramatic as bigamy and murder—Lauer brings the Jews of Candia vibrantly to life. Despite general rabbinic disapproval of such behavior elsewhere in medieval Europe, Crete's Jews regularly turned not only to their own religious courts but also to the secular Venetian judicial system. There they aired disputes between family members, business partners, spouses, and even the leaders of their community. And with their use of secular justice as both symptom and cause, Lauer contends, Crete's Jews grew more open and flexible, confident in their identity and experiencing little of the anti-Judaism increasingly suffered by their coreligionists in Western Europe
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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812250039 , 0812250036 , 9781512825473
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 242 Seiten , 24 cm
    Year of publication: 2018
    Series Statement: Haney foundation series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Goldman, Samuel God's country
    Keywords: Christian Zionism History ; United States ; Christianity and other religions Judaism ; History ; United States ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity ; History ; United States ; Religion and politics History ; United States ; Christian Zionism ; Christianity ; Interfaith relations ; Judaism ; Religion and politics ; Christianity and other religions Judaism ; United States ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity ; United States ; Zionism United States ; 15.85 history of America United States ; United States ; USA ; Evangelikale Bewegung ; Zionismus
    Abstract: "The United States is Israel's closest ally in the world. The fact is undeniable, and undeniably controversial, not least because it so often inspires conspiracy theorizing among those who refuse to believe that the special relationship serves America's strategic interests or places the United States on the right side of Israel's enduring conflict with the Palestinians. Some point to the nefarious influence of a powerful "Israel lobby" within the halls of Congress. Others detect the hand of evangelical Protestants who fervently support Israel for their own theological reasons. The underlying assumption of all such accounts is that America's support for Israel must flow from a mixture of collusion, manipulation, and ideologically driven foolishness. Samuel Goldman proposes another explanation. The political culture of the United States, he argues, has been marked from the very beginning by a Christian theology that views the American nation as deeply implicated in the historical fate of biblical Israel. God's Country is the first book to tell the complete story of Christian Zionism in American political and religious thought from the Puritans to 9/11. It identifies three sources of American Christian support for a Jewish state: covenant, or the idea of an ongoing relationship between God and the Jewish people; prophecy, or biblical predictions of return to The Promised Land; and cultural affinity, based on shared values and similar institutions. Combining original research with insights from the work of historians of American religion, Goldman crafts a provocative narrative that chronicles Americans' attachment to the State of Israel"--jacket flaps
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-233) and index
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    ISBN: 9789004342309
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
    Year of publication: 2017
    Series Statement: Jewish Latin America volume 9
    Series Statement: Jewish Latin America, issues and methods v. 9
    Parallel Title: Print version Rein, Raanan The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Jews History 20th century ; Ethnic relations ; Jews ; History ; Latin America Ethnic relations ; Latin America
    Abstract: Preliminary Material /Raanan Rein , Stefan Rinke and Nadia Zysman -- Introduction /Raanan Rein , Stefan Rinke and Nadia Zysman -- Remaking Ethnic Studies in the Age of Identities /Jeffrey Lesser -- Factory, Workshop, and Homework: A Spatial Dimension of Labor Flexibility among Jewish Migrants in the Early Stages of Industrialization in Buenos Aires /Nadia Zysman -- Becoming Polacos: Landsmanshaftn and the Making of a Polish-Jewish Sub-ethnicity in Argentina /Mariusz Kałczewiak -- Ethnicity and Federalism in Latin America: Rethinking the National Experience of Jews and Middle Eastern Descendants in Argentina /Mauricio Dimant -- “For an Arab There Can Be Nothing Better Than Another Arab”: Nation, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Peronist Argentina /Ariel Noyjovich and Raanan Rein -- Otherness in Convergence: Arabs, Jews, and the Formation of the Chilean Middle Classes, 1930–1960 /Claudia Stern -- The Untold History: Voices of Non-affiliated Jews in Chile, 1940–1990 /Valeria Navarro-Rosenblatt -- The Other as a Mirror: Representation of Jews and Palestinians on Argentinian and Chilean Television Screens /Gabriela Jonas Aharoni -- In the Land of Vitzliputzli: German-Speaking Jews in Latin America /Liliana Ruth Feierstein -- Epilogue: The Centesimal Nisman /David M. K. Sheinin -- Index /Raanan Rein , Stefan Rinke and Nadia Zysman.
    Abstract: The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America aims at going beyond and against much of Jewish Latin American historiography, situating Jewish-Latin Americans in the larger multi-ethnic context of their countries. Senior and junior scholars from various countries joined together to challenge commonly held assumptions, accepted ideas, and stable categories about ethnicity in Latin America in general and Jewish experiences on this continent in particular. This volume brings to the discussions on Jewish life in Latin America less heard voices of women, non-affiliated Jews, and intellectuals. Community institutions are not at center stage, conflicts and tensions are brought to the fore, and a multitude of voices pushes aside images of homogeneity. Authors in this tome look at Jews’ multiple homelands: their country of birth, their country of residence, and their imagined homeland of Zion
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    ISBN: 9780812249149
    Language: English
    Pages: 236 Seiten , 25 cm
    Year of publication: 2017
    Series Statement: Jewish culture and contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cohen, Mark R., 1943 - Maimonides and the Merchants
    DDC: 296.3/677
    Keywords: Maimonides, Moses ; Commercial law (Jewish law) History To 1500 ; Partnership (Jewish law) History To 1500 ; Jewish merchants History To 1500 ; Islamic Empire Commerce To 1500 ; History ; Islamic Empire Ethnic relations To 1500 ; History ; Islamische Staaten ; Juden ; Handel ; Handelsrecht ; Geschichte 700-1500 ; Islamische Staaten ; Juden ; Handelsrecht ; Jüdisches Recht ; Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index
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    ISBN: 9780812246094
    Language: English
    Pages: 267 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2014
    Series Statement: Jewish culture and contexts
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Idelson-Shein, Iris Difference of a Different Kind
    DDC: 155.8/209409032
    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Jews, European Race identity 17th century ; History ; Jews, European Race identity 18th century ; History ; Race awareness History 17th century ; Race awareness History 18th century ; Difference (Philosophy) History 17th century ; Difference (Philosophy) History 18th century ; Difference (Psychology) History 17th century ; Difference (Psychology) History 18th century ; Europa ; Juden ; Ethnische Identität ; Europa ; Juden ; Ethnische Identität ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Europa ; Juden ; Ethnische Identität ; Geschichte 1700-1800
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 229-257
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    ISBN: 9789004222366
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (342 pages) , illustrations
    Year of publication: 2012
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy v. 15
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History: Festschrift in Honor of Robert Chazan
    Keywords: Rashi ; Jews History To 1500 ; Tosafists ; Martyrdom Judaism ; Jewish law ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Europe Ethnic relations To 1500 ; History
    Abstract: Preliminary Material /David Engel , Lawrence H. Schiffman and Elliot R. Wolfson -- Robert Chazan: In Appreciation and Friendship /David Engel , Lawrence H. Schiffman and Elliot R. Wolfson -- Guibert of Nogent and William of Flay and the Problem of Jewish Conversion at the Time of the First Crusade /Anna Sapir Abulafia -- Rashi’s Choice: The Humash Commentary As Rewritten Midrash /Ivan G. Marcus -- The Commentary of Rashi on Isaiah and the Jewish-Christian Debate /Avraham Grossman -- Were Jews Made in the Image of God? Christian Perspectives and Jewish Existence in Medieval Europe /Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak -- Jewish Knowledge of Christianity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries /Daniel J. Lasker -- Dreams As a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Northern Europe during the High Middle Ages /Ephraim Kanarfogel -- Orality and Literacy: The French Tosaphists /Gérard Nahon -- Torah and the Messianic Age: The Polemical and Exegetical History of a Rabbinic Text /David Berger -- Textual Flesh, Incarnation, and the Imaginal Body: Abraham Abulafia’s Polemic with Christianity /Elliot R. Wolfson -- The Jewish Cemeteries of France after the Expulsion of 1306 /William Chester Jordan -- The Cruel Jewish Father: From Miracle to Murder /Kenneth Stow -- From Solomon Bar Samson to Solomon Ibn Verga: Tales and Ideas of Jewish Martyrdom in Shevet Yehudah /Jeremy Cohen -- Salo Baron’s View of the Middle Ages in Jewish History: Early Sources /David Engel -- Bibliography of the Works of Robert Chazan /Yechiel Y. Schur -- Index /David Engel , Lawrence H. Schiffman and Elliot R. Wolfson.
    Abstract: For more than four decades Robert Chazan has been a copious source of original insights into the history and culture of medieval European Jewry, challenging conventional wisdom with profound erudition and sober analysis. In this volume, thirteen leading Judaicists and medievalists engage subjects that have been of particular concern to Professor Chazan during his distinguished career: the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of the experience of medieval Jewry. Taken together they offer a comprehensive portrait of the state of the field of medieval Jewish studies
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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 0812241150 , 9780812241150
    Language: English
    Pages: 267 S. , Ill. , 24 cm
    Year of publication: 2009
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages series
    DDC: 892.4/120944
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    Keywords: Hebrew poetry, Medieval History and criticism ; Jewish religious poetry, French History To 1500 ; Jews Persecutions To 1500 ; History ; Jews History To 1500 ; Judaism History To 1500 ; Hebrew poetry, Medieval History and criticism ; France ; Jewish religious poetry, French History ; To 1500 ; Jews Persecutions ; History ; To 1500 ; France ; Jews History ; To 1500 ; France ; Judaism History ; To 1500 ; France ; France Ethnic relations ; France Ethnic relations ; Frankreich ; Juden ; Vertreibung ; Pijut
    Abstract: Isaac b. Abraham HaGorni: the myth, the man, and the manuscript -- Form and history: Hebrew pantograms and the expulsion of 1306 -- God's forgotten sheep: liturgical memory and expulsion -- A proper diet: medicine and history in Crescas Caslari's Esther -- Physicians and their daughters: memory and medicine during the plague years -- Refrains in exile: French Jewish poetry in Northern Italy
    Description / Table of Contents: Isaac b. Abraham HaGorni: the myth, the man, and the manuscript -- Form and history: Hebrew pantograms and the expulsion of 1306 -- God's forgotten sheep: liturgical memory and expulsion -- A proper diet: medicine and history in Crescas Caslari's Esther -- Physicians and their daughters: memory and medicine during the plague years -- Refrains in exile: French Jewish poetry in Northern Italy.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-257) and index , Text in English with some Hebrew, Hebrew translated to English
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    Online Resource
    Leiden : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789047410836 , 9789004153561
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 39
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Messianic Secret of Hasidism
    Keywords: Hasidim Biography ; Hasidism Doctrines ; History ; Hasidism History ; Jewish messianic movements ; Messiah Judaism
    Abstract: This book describes a circle of Eastern European Kabbalists that established Hasidism, an important movement that has influenced Jewish Mysticism, Yiddish culture and Hebrew literature. It uncovers the messianic motivation, concealed in Hasidic writings after the failure of their 1740-1781 attempts to hurry redemption. The book opens with the Besht, the legendary founder of Hasidism, and continues with the first Hasidic court, founded by one of his prominent disciples, the preacher of Zlotshov. The group's redemptive activities are revealed through their mystical rituals, their self-image as representatives of the ten Sefirot, and the status of their leader, "the Righteous One," as a vivid symbol of the divine influx. The book is especially important for scholars and students of Judaism as well as scholars of mysticism and messianism, seeking to comprehend the transformation of a messianic circle of devotees into a mass movement that changes the culture of an entire nation
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    ISBN: 9789047409236 , 9789004150522
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 12
    Series Statement: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Online, ISBN: 9789004427556
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als A Holy People: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity
    Keywords: Holiness Judaism ; History ; Holiness Christianity ; History of doctrines
    Abstract: A Holy People investigates the various ways in which Jews and Christians define their religious identity, people or community, as being holy. Keeping in mind that historical studies can offer food for thought regarding contemporary issues, the study offers a large collection of essays, relating to the biblical, patristic and medieval period and especially to the modern period. The obvious question of many in the modern world as to whether the attribute of the ‘holiness’ allows for acknowledgement of authentic religion outside the own religious community, deserves an honest answer and well-documented study: too easily the claim of holiness intertwines with claims of power, whether by rivalling groups within the religious community, by groups divided along gender lines, or on the level of territorial claims. It will be of special importance to scholars and general readers interested in an interdisciplinary approach to theology, rabbinics, history, political science, and much more
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    ISBN: 9789047408857 , 9789004149472
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Studies in Central European Histories 37
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany
    Keywords: Christianity and other religions Judaism 16th century ; History ; Jews History 16th century ; Judaism Relations 16th century ; Christianity ; History ; Judaism History 16th century ; Reformation
    Abstract: This book represents a multi-disciplinary approach to the problem of the Jews and the German Reformation. The contributions come from both senior and emerging scholars, from North America, Israel, and Europe, to ensure a breadth in perspective. The essays in this volume are arranged under four broad headings: 1. The Road to the Reformation (late medieval theology and the humanists and the Jews), 2. The Reformers and the Jews (essays on Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer, Zwingli, Calvin, Osiander, the Catholic Reformers, and the Radical Reformers), 3. Representations of Jews and Judaism (the portrayal of Judaism as a religion, images of the Jews in the visual arts, and in sixteenth-century German literature), and 4. Jewish Responses to the Reformation. Contributors include: Dean Phillip Bell, Jay Berkovitz, Robert Bireley, Stephen G. Burnett, Elisheva Carlebach, Achim Detmers, Yaacov Deutsch, Maria Diemling, Michael Driedger, R. Gerald Hobbs, Joy Kammerling, Thomas Kaufmann, Hans-Martin Kirn, Christopher Ocker, Erika Rummel, Petra Schöner, Timothy J. Wengert, and Edith Wenzel
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Shortened Titles -- Contributors -- Introduction, Dean Phillip Bell & Stephen G. Burnett -- PART I. ROAD TO REFORMATION -- 1. Humanists, Jews, and Judaism, Erika Rummel -- 2. German Theologians and the Jews in the Fifteenth Century, Christopher Ocker -- PART II. REFORMERS AND THE JEWS -- 3. Luther and the Jews, Thomas Kaufmann -- 4. Philip Melanchthon and the Jews: A Reappraisal, Timothy J. Wengert -- 5. Bucer, the Jews, and Judaism, R. Gerald Hobbs -- 6. Ulrich Zwingli, the Jews, and Judaism, Hans-Martin Kirn -- 7. Calvin, the Jews, and Judaism, Achim Detmers -- 8. Andreas Osiander, the Jews, and Judaism, Joy Kammerling -- 9. The Catholic Reform, Jews, and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Robert Bireley -- 10. The Intensification of Religious Commitment: Jews, Anabaptists, Radical Reform, and Confessionalization, Michael Driedger -- PART III. REPRESENTATIONS OF JEWS AND JUDAISM -- 11. Anthonius Margaritha on the "Whole Jewish Faith:" A Sixteenth-Century Convert from Judaism and his Depiction of the Jewish Religion, Maria Diemling -- 12. Von der Juden Ceremonien : Representations of Jews in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Yaacov Deutsch -- 13. Visual Representations of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Petra Schöner -- 14. The Representation of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century German Literature, Edith Wenzel -- PART IV. JEWS, JUDAISM, AND JEWISH RESPONSES TO THE REFORMATION -- 15. Jewish Settlement, Politics, and the Reformation, Dean Phillip Bell -- 16. Jewish Responses to Christianity in Reformation Germany, Elisheva Carlebach -- 17. Jewish Law and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, Jay Berkovitz -- 18. German Jewish Printing in the Reformation Era (1530-1633), Stephen G. Burnett -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Persons -- Index of Biblical Passages Cited.
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    ISBN: 9789047411512 , 9789004154933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 9
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Sicily, Volume 9 Corte Pretoriana and Notaries of Palermo
    Keywords: Cairo Genizah ; Jews Sicily ; History ; Sources
    Abstract: This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy is the first of the second series, illustrating the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It is the sequel to the eight volumes of the first series. Notarial deeds drawn up by public notaries in Palermo and elsewhere and cases brought before the Pretorian Court in Palermo present a kaleidoscopic picture of the private lives of the Jews of Sicily during the last three centuries of their presence on the island. They illustrate the economic, social, and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. Much information is provided on trade and commerce, crafts and professions, religious and family life. Some light is thrown also on the internal life of the communities, particularly the larger ones, including organization and institutions, the synagogue, education, customs and traditions. Although the surviving legal deeds present only a fraction of the total drawn up in those years, they are copious and abundant. Over 30,000 documents of this group were selected for publication. While some documents were dealt with at length, most had to be presented in summary form, giving only the bare essentials. Most appear here for the first time. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series
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    Online Resource
    Leiden : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789047410508 , 9789004152830
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Sicily, Volume 8 (1490-1497)
    Keywords: Jews History ; Sources ; Jews Sicily ; History ; Sources
    Abstract: This volume in the series Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Sicily from 1490 to 1497. It is the sequel to the first seven volumes and covers the events during the rule of the Catholic Kings Ferdinand and Isabella, following the unification of Spain. They cover the last years leading up to the expulsion, the expulsion itself, and a few events in its aftermath. A further deterioration in the position of the Jews took place in those last years of their presence on Sicily. Numerically the Jewish community on the island reached its zenith, accompanied by economic prosperity. Nearly a thousand documents, many of them published here for the first time, record the fortunes of the Jews. Again, much new information has come to light, and many facets of Jewish life in Sicily have been uncovered. The abundance of historical records in the archives of the Crown and of local authorities again compares favorably with the relative scarcity of surviving documentation in earlier centuries. Therefore, many documents had to be reported in summary form. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series. This is the last volume of the The Jews in Sicily based mainly on governmental sources, to be followed by additional volumes containing records culled from notarial deeds
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    ISBN: 9789047415794 , 9789004146549
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: Studies in Central European Histories 39
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sensationalizing the Jewish Question: Anti-Semitic Trials and the Press in the Early German Empire
    Keywords: Antisemitism in the press ; Antisemitism History 19th century ; Jews Press coverage 19th century ; History ; Jews History 1800-1933 ; Trials History 19th century ; Germany Ethnic relations ; Germany History 1871-1918
    Abstract: Historians have generally assumed that the French Dreyfus Affair had no counterpart in turn-of-the-century Germany. However, while no single anti-Semitic trial in Germany had the social and political impact of the Dreyfus Affair, a series of sensational court cases did have a significant influence on the growth and development of anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany. These trials, which included prominent libel cases and several ritual murder accusations, frequently spurred debates in the German press about the nature of Judaism and the role and influence of Jews in German society. This book examines the nature of these anti-Semitic affairs, assesses their role in German politics, and evaluates their effect on the overall development of German anti-Semitism
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. An Empire Transformed: Politics, Anti-Semitism, and the Law in the Time of Bismarck -- 2. Fighting Words: Libel Trials, Jews, and the Cult of Honor -- 3. Arson in Neustettin: The Limits of Anti-Jewish Violence in the New Reich -- 4. Ritual Murder Trials: Ancient Prejudice and Modern Propaganda -- 5. A Matter of Debate: Scholars and Pseudo-Scholars Testify on the Nature of Judaism -- 6. The New Demagogues: Hermann Ahlwardt and the Rise of Fanatical Anti-Semitism -- Conclusion -- Appendix: An Overview of the German Press in the Bismarckzeit -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789047405566 , 9789004139022
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2004
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 29
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Search Scripture Well : Karaite Exegetes and the Origins of the Jewish Bible Commentary in the Islamic East
    Keywords: Japheth ben Ali ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish To 1500 ; History ; Karaite manuscripts ; Karaites ; Karaites
    Abstract: The Jewish Bible commentary was created in the Islamic East during the tenth century by scholars seeking a rational, systematic approach to Scripture. Among its earliest champions were the Karaites, scripturalists who denied rabbinic authority. Seeking to restore Judaism to its biblical roots, they wrote numerous commentaries in Judeo-Arabic. Through the investigation of key topics, this book traces the contours of early Karaite biblical exegesis. Subjects covered include: halakhic indeterminacy; dream interpretation; the Song of Songs as salvation history; Psalms exegesis as liturgical commentary; and inter-religious polemics. The exegetes discussed include Ya'qub al-Qirqisani, Salmon b. Yeruhim, Sahl b. Masliah, and above all, Japheth b. Eli. Extensive selections from unpublished manuscripts are presented in English translation and the original Judeo-Arabic
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    Book
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 0812237056 , 0812218388
    Language: English
    Pages: 208 S , Ill., Kt , 24 cm
    Year of publication: 2003
    DDC: 296.09473109049
    Keywords: Goluboff, Sascha L. ; Synagogues History ; 20th century ; Russia (Federation) ; Moscow ; Jews History ; 20th century ; Russia (Federation) ; Moscow ; Jews, Georgian (Transcaucasian) Social conditions ; 20th century ; Russia (Federation) ; Moscow ; Jews, Bukharan Social conditions ; 20th century ; Russia (Federation) ; Moscow ; Mountain Jews Social conditions ; 20th century ; Russia (Federation) ; Moscow ; Goluboff Sascha L. ; Synagogues Russia (Federation) ; Moscow ; History ; 20th century ; Jews Russia (Federation) ; Moscow ; History ; 20th century ; Jews, Georgian (Transcaucasian) Russia (Federation) ; Moscow ; Social conditions ; 20th century ; Jews, Bukharan Russia (Federation) ; Moscow ; Social conditions ; 20th century ; Mountain Jews Russia (Federation) ; Moscow ; Social conditions ; 20th century ; Moscow (Russia) Ethnic relations ; Bibliografie ; Georgien ; Juden ; Moskau ; Geschichte 1995-1996 ; Buchara ; Juden ; Moskau ; Geschichte 1995-1996 ; Bergjuden ; Moskau ; Geschichte 1995-1996 ; Juden ; Moskau ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte 1995-1996 ; Moskau ; Georgien ; Buchara ; Juden ; Bergjuden ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte 1995-1996
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-199) and index
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    ISBN: 9789047400288 , 9789004115422
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2003
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 77
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Seconding Sinai : The Development of Mosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism
    Keywords: Direct discourse in the Bible ; Jewish law Interpretation and construction To 1500 ; History
    Abstract: What is meant by attributing texts to Moses in Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism? The answer depends not only on the history of texts but also on the history of concepts of textuality. This book criticizes the terms "Pseudepigraphy" and "Rewritten Bible", which presuppose conceptions of authentic attribution and textual fidelity foreign to ancient Judaism. Instead, this book develops the concept of a discourse whose creativity and authority depend on repeated returns to the exemplary figure and experience of a founder. Attribution to Moses is a central example, whose function is to re-present the experience of revelation at Sinai. Distinctive features of Mosaic discourse are studied in Deuteronomy, Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, and the works of Philo of Alexandria
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    ISBN: 9789004496507 , 9789004128866
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2003
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 76
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Philanthrôpia judaica : Le débat autour de la "misanthropie" des lois juives dans l'Antiquité
    Keywords: Philo, of Alexandria - Views on Jewish humanitarianism ; Philo ; Josephus, Flavius ; Judaism and literature Greece ; Philanthropy Religious aspect ; Judaism ; History ; Until 1500 ; Greek literature, Hellenistic History and criticism ; Greek literature, Hellenistic Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; Humanitarianism Religious aspects To 1500 ; Judaism ; History ; Judaism and literature ; Judaism Controversial literature ; History and criticism ; Misanthropy
    Abstract: This volume deals with the accusations of misanthropy directed against the Jews during the Hellenistic and Roman period, and with the Jewish attempts to answer those charges. The first part of the book examines the different meanings of the words philanthropia, misanthropia, apanthropia, philoxenia and misoxenia, and analyses the relevant Greek, Egyptian and Roman sources, in order to clarify the significance of the accusation of misanthropy for each writer. The second part deals with the Jewish answers to these accusations, especially with Philo's and Josephus' attempts to show the humane character of the Mosaic Law. This book is the first attempt to write a comprehensive history of this type of anti-Jewish discourse in Antiquity and of the Jewish reactions it provoked
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    ISBN: 9789047400080 , 9780391041905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2003
    Series Statement: Studies in Philo of Alexandria 2
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als One God, One Law : Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law
    Keywords: Philo ; Jewish law History ; Law, Greek Philosophy ; History ; Roman law Philosophy ; History
    Abstract: This book studies the influence of Hellenism and Greco-Roman philosophy on Philo of Alexandria's view of the Mosaic law. In particular, the book examines how Philo integrated Greco-Roman conceptions of law, such as Unwritten Law, the Law of Nature, and the "Living Law," into his understanding of the Mosaic law of the Jews and the lives of the Patriarchs. Philo transformed Greco-Roman law and shaped it into something peculiar to a Jewish understanding of the cosmos and its creation by one God. Martens examines Philo's creativity in adapting Greco-Roman law to create something new in the annals of philosophy and the apologetic purposes his new philosophy served for Judaism
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    ISBN: 9789004493810 , 9789004129719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2003
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 26
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor : From Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides to David Kimhi
    Keywords: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr ; Kimhi, David ; Maimonides, Moses ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish To 1500 ; History ; Bible Language, style ; Bible as literature ; Metaphor in the Bible
    Abstract: This volume explores how the poetic technique of biblical metaphor was analyzed within the Jewish exegetical tradition that developed in Muslim Spain during the Golden Age of Hebrew poetry and was then transplanted to a Christian milieu. Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides applied concepts from Arabic poetics, hermeneutics and logic to define metaphor and interpret it within their philological-literary readings of Scripture. David Kimhi integrated their methodologies with the midrashic creativity and sensitivity to nuance typical of his native Provence to create a new literary interpretive system that highlights the expressiveness of metaphor. This study is important for readers interested in metaphor, the Bible as literature, the history of biblical interpretation and the inter-relation between Arabic and Hebrew learning
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    Online Resource
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    Leiden : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789004496552 , 9789004131309
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2003
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 5
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Sicily, Volume 5 (1440-1457)
    Keywords: Jews Sources Italy ; Sicily ; History
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 38
    ISBN: 9789004496811 , 9789004131095
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2003
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Studies in Jewish History and Culture 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Im Westen Neues : Migration und ihre Folgen: deutsche Juden als Pioniere jüdischen Lebens in Belgien, 18./19. Jahrhundert
    Keywords: Jews Belgium 18th century ; History ; Jews Belgium 19th century ; History ; Jews History 18th century ; Jews History 19th century ; Belgium Ethnic relations
    Abstract: The study focuses on the initial establishment and subsequent development of Jewish life in Belgium in the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition reasons for German Jewish families to migrate and to settle permanently and for the first time in Belgium, thereby creating a nucleus of jewish life, are illustrated. It is explained why pioneers like Oppenheim, Benda, Schuster, Hauman, Morel, Bischofsheim and Deby left their homes (in Germany) and moved to unknown Belgian terretories. The engagement of these pioneers within the Jewish communities as well as their economic, political and social activities are highlighted
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    Online Resource
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    Leiden : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789004495425 , 9789004121683
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2001
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 3
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Sicily, Volume 3 (1392-1414)
    Keywords: Jewish diaspora Biography History ; Jews Biography Italy ; History
    Abstract: This volume in the series Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Sicily during the last decade of the fourteenth century and the first two of the fifteenth. It is the sequel to the first and second volumes on the history of the Jews in Sicily, and illustrates the events during the political upheavals which preceded the reunion of the island with Aragon. During that period the Jewish minority of flourished, although affected by unsettled political conditions, along with the rest of the population. Over 500 documents, many of them published here for the first time, record the fortunes of the Jews and their relationships with the authorities, especially the two Martins, and their Christian neighbours. Much new information has come to light, and many facets of Jewish life in Sicily have been uncovered. The abundance of historical records in the archives of the Crown and of local authorities compares favourably with the relative scarcity of surviving documentation in earlier centuries. Therefore, again, many documents had to be reported in summary form. Much new information has come to light. The volume is again provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction has been relegated to the end of the series on the Jews of the island
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    Online Resource
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    Leiden : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789004502406 , 9789042015029
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2000
    Series Statement: Fichte-Studien, Supplementa 14
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fichtes Idee der Nation und das Judentum
    Keywords: Fichte, Johann Gottlieb ; Judaism ; Political science Philosophy ; History ; Judaism ; Political science Philosophy ; History
    Abstract: In der Antisemitismuskritik insbesondere nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wird Fichte vielfach eine zentrale Rolle zugedacht: nämlich als dem Angelpunkt des Umschlags vom religiösen Antijudaismus zur politischen Judenfeindlichkeit. Diese Sicht, die sich im Wesentlichen auf eine Äußerung in einer Frühschrift des Philosophen von 1793 stützt, hat - so die These des Buches - dessen weitere Entwicklung, wenn überhaupt, dann nur völlig unzureichend zur Kenntnis genommen. Für überraschend viele jüdische Zeitgenossen, seine jüdischen Studenten voran, ist Fichte der wegweisende Philosoph der Epoche gewesen. Die weitere, gerade jüdische Rezeptionsgeschichte seines Werkes belegt bis ins Dritte Reich hinein eine erstaunliche, bislang in diesem Umfang nicht zur Kenntnis genommene Affinität des Judentums zu Fichte. Dabei erweisen sich Fichtes Reden an die deutsche Nation - für viele sicherlich überraschend - gerade für den Zionismus als beispielhaft für jedes Volk im Werden und für das jüdische allemal. Auch die französische Fichte-Rezeption - ebenfals dort ist die jüdische prominent vertreten - hat, die Zeit des Grande Guerre ausgenommen, bis zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Fichte vor allem den Erben der Freiheitsversprechen von Aufklärung und Revolution in Frankreich gesehen
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  • 41
    ISBN: 9789004474710 , 9789004117150
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2000
    Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Series Statement: The Medieval Mediterranean 26
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Art of Conversion : Christianity and Kabbalah in the Thirteenth Century
    Keywords: Llull, Ramon Knowledge ; Cabala ; Llull, Ramon ; Llull, Ramon ; Cabala and Christianity History ; Cabala History ; Christianity and other religions Judaism ; History ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity ; History ; Aragon (Spain) Church history
    Abstract: This book discusses Ramon Llull (ca. 1232-1316), the Christian missionary, philosopher and mystic, his relations with Jewish contemporaries, and how he integrated Jewish mystical teachings (Kabbalah) into his thought system so as to persuade the Jews to convert. Issues dealt with include Llull's attitude towards the Jews, his knowledge of Kabbalah, his theories regarding the Trinity and Incarnation (the Art), and the impact of his ideas on the Jewish community. The book challenges conventional scholarly opinion regarding Christian knowledge of contemporary Jewish thought and questions the assumption that Christians did not know or use Kabbalah before the Renaissance. Further, it suggests that Lull was well aware of ongoing intellectual and religious controversies within the Jewish community, as well as being the first Christian to acknowledge and appreciate Kabbalah as a tool for conversion
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Note on Nomenclature and Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 -- 1. Between Innovation and Tradition -- 31 -- 2. The Jew in Llull's Eyes -- 83 -- 3. Into the Gates of Wisdom -- 118 -- 4. The Lullian Trinity: A Means to an End? -- 190 -- 5. Unity and Trinity: A Jewish Response -- 246 -- Conclusion -- 284 -- Appendix: A Reply to "One of the Wise Men of the Gentiles": The Textual Tradition -- 289 -- Bibliography -- 293 -- Index -- 325.
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  • 42
    Online Resource
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    Leiden : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789004509504 , 9789004109773
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Studia Post Biblica 1
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews in Sicily, Volume 1 (383-1300)
    Keywords: Jewish diaspora Sources History ; Jews Sources History 70-1789 ; Jews Sources History ; Cairo Genizah ; Jews Sources History ; Sicily (Italy) Sources Ethnic relations ; History
    Abstract: This volume in the series Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Sicily during the last decade of the fourteenth century and the first two of the fifteenth. It is the sequel to the first and second volumes on the history of the Jews in Sicily, and illustrates the events during the political upheavals which preceded the reunion of the island with Aragon. During that period the Jewish minority flourished, although affected by unsettled political conditions, along with the rest of the population. Over 500 documents, many of them published here for the first time, record the fortunes of the Jews and their relationships with the authorities, especially the two Martins, and their Christian neighbours. Much new information has come to light, and many facets of Jewish life in Sicily have been uncovered. The abundance of historical records in the archives of the Crown and of local authorities compares favourably with the relative scarcity of surviving documentation in earlier centuries. Therefore, again, many documents had to be reported in summary form. Much new information has come to light. The volume is again provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction has been relegated to the end of the series on the Jews of the island
    Note: "Also represents volume 115 of the Publications of the Diaspora Research Institute, the School of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University"--Vol. 1, p. vii. Vol. 2 is v. 140 of the same , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9789004497672 , 9789004108356
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Biblical Interpretation Series 28
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Quest for Context and Meaning : Studies in Biblical Intertextuality in Honor of James A. Sanders
    Keywords: Bible Relation to the Old Testament ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish ; History ; Dead Sea scrolls ; Bibliography ; Intertextuality in the Bible
    Abstract: This collection of studies is published in honor of Professor James A. Sanders, a leading scholar in the fields of the canon of Scripture, textual criticism, and the relationship of the two Testaments. Contributors include leading scholars in these and related fields of study. The studies investigate in what ways the early sacred tradition was interpreted and how this tradition takes new shape in the Jewish and Christian communities of faith. Included are studies of Jesus' understanding of Scripture, Paul's interpretation of Scripture, and the ways in which Scripture was interpreted by the Rabbis. In many instances novel interpretations and new approaches to old problems are offered. Advanced students and veteran scholars will enjoy the many insights and provocative new ideas
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  • 44
    ISBN: 9789004497825 , 9789004102675
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1997
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 17
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Karaite Tradition of Arabic Bible Translation : A Linguistic and Exegetical Study of Karaite Translations of the Pentateuch from the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries C.E
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc Middle Ages, 600-1500 ; History ; Bible Versions ; Bible translations ; Karaite manuscripts ; Orthodox Judaism ; Karaites
    Abstract: This volume deals with the medieval Karaite practice and concept of Arabic Bible translation. It is based on a linguistic analysis of Karaite versions of the Pentateuch written in Palestine during the 10th and 11th centuries C.E. Trends and tendencies in the Karaite translations are discussed in the light of individual Karaite statements on the art and purpose of Bible translation, and in comparison with Saadiah Gaon's translation methodology, in an attempt to reconstruct the possible origins and historical background of the Karaite translation tradition. The exegetical study is especially relevant to the Bible scholar and medieval philosopher, while the linguistic study will also interest the comparative Semitist, translation theorist and all those concerned with Judaeo-Arabic language and literature
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  • 45
    ISBN: 9789004493230 , 9789004104044
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1995
    Series Statement: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 16
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews of Medieval Islam : Community, Society and Identity. Proceedings of an International Conference held by the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London 1992
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Jews of medieval Islam
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    Keywords: Civilization history ; Jews history ; Jews Congresses Islamic Empire ; History ; Judaism history ; Judaism Congresses Islamic Empire ; History ; Konferenzschrift 1992 ; Juden ; Islam ; Geschichte 500-1500
    Abstract: This volume contains fifteen articles on the communal, social, and intellectual life of medieval Jewry in Islamic lands. The book is divided into three parts. Part I, 'Communities and Their Leaders' is devoted to the old Babylonian center in the East and the Andalusian community in the West. Part II, 'Self-Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Others' investigates the ways in which medieval Jews living under Islam viewed their gentile neighbours and expressed their own identity. Part III, 'Religious Philosophy, Mysticism, and Spirituality in Islam and Judaism' explores the impact of Islamic thought on the Jewish intellectual tradition. The collection depicts a civilization at once unified and diverse, revealing both consistent patterns of leadership and scholarship as well as distinctively local identities and collective memories
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preliminary Material / , Contributors / , Abbreviations / , Introduction / , The Jew in the Medieval Islamic City / , Varieties of Inter-Communal Relations in the Geonic Period / , The Exilarchate / , Halakhah and Reality in the Gaonic Period: Taqqanah, Minhag, Tradition and Consensus: Some Observations / , Jewish Élites in al-Andalus / , The Judeo-Arabic Tradition in Christian Spain / , Costume as Cultural Statement: The Esthetics, Economics, and Politics of Islamic Dress / , Persecution, Response, and Collective Memory: The Jews of Islam in the Classical Period / , Saadya Gaon on Christianity and Islam / , On Jewish Intellectuals Who Converted in the Early Middle Ages / , The Shoshanim of Tenth-Century Jerusalem: Karaite Exegesis, Prayer, and Communal Identity / , Yūsuf al-Baṣīr: Theological Aspects of his Halakhic Works / , Ismāʿīlī Theology and Maimonides' Philosophy / , A Mystical Treatise on Perfection, Providence and Prophecy from the Jewish Ṣūfī Circle / , Yemenite Philosophical Midrash as a Source for the Intellectual History of the Jews of Yemen / , Index of Medieval Authors / , Index of Modern Authors / , Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval /
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