ISBN:
9780755692590
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (384 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
Year of publication:
2015
Keywords:
Gelles family Genealogy
;
Gelles family History
;
Jews Genealogy
;
Jews History
;
European history
Abstract:
Preface -- Introduction - A Mirror of the Past -- Part 1. Genealogical Threads -- 1. Carolingian Connections in the 8th Century - Kalonymos of Narbonne -- 2. In the Spanish March and Provence from the 10th Century - Benveniste and Shem Tov Halevi -- 3. From Portugal to the Ottoman Empire in the 16th Century - Joseph Nasi, Duke of Naxos -- 4. From Provence to Venice and Beyond - Eliyahu Menachem Chalfan -- Part 2. 16th - 17th Centuries -- 5. Bohemia, England, and America - David and Chaim Gans of Prague -- 6. Golden Age for the Jews of Prague - Judah Loew and Contemporary Rabbis -- 7. From Padua and Venice to Poland and Lithuania - Life and Times of Saul Wahl -- 8. A Polish Affair - Sigismund III Vasa and Hannele Wahl -- Part 3. 18th Century and Later -- 9. Capitalists and Rabbis - Galician Social and Economic Background -- 10. Jewish Community Life in Brody - "The Jerusalem of Austria" -- 11. From the Baltic to the Black Sea - Jewish Migrations in Eastern Europe -- 12. Shmuel Hillman of Metz - Connections of an Influential 18th-Century Rabbi -- 13 Frankists - A Heretical Jewish sect in Eastern Europe -- 14. Chasidism in the Age of Enlightenment - Rational and Mystical strands in 18th-Century Jewry -- Part 4. Various Roads to Modern Times -- 15. Mendelssohn, Marx, Buber and other Descendants of Saul Wahl -- 16. Chayes: Prague, Brody, Livorno, and Vienna - Pan-European Connections from the 15th to the 20th Centuries -- 17. They Met in Trieste - Christians and Jews in an Ethnic Melting-Pot -- 18. Rabbis and Lawyers - A Shared Ethos -- Part 5. A Brief Look Back to our Legendary Past -- 19. Davidic Descent -- Appendices - Onomastics and Genetic Genealogy -- 20. Family Names -- 21. A Study in Genetic Genealogy -- 22. The Wahls of Tarnobrzeg - Genealogical Links and DNA tests -- 23. X-DNA Matches and European Roots -- 24. Genetic Admixture of Ashkenazi Jews - Relating to Millennial Migrations -- Epilogue - Glossary.
Abstract:
"The history of European Jewry is a vast and complex subject. In this book, Edward Gelles traces Jewish history in Europe and the Near East including population movement, settlement, integration, advancement in aspects of European culture and learning, relations with European states and dynasties, Christians and Ottomans, persecution, the world wars, anti-Semitism, indeed the story of European Jewry from early times to the present. Edward Gelles and his family, both immediate and in their wider circle have huge and distinguished family connections that provide historical context. In combining biography, traditional genealogy and a contribution from the rapidly developing field of genetic genealogy this book weaves emerging patterns into the grand tapestry of European history."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Also issued in print.
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.5040/9780755692590
