Jewish culture in early modern Europe : essays in honor of David B. Ruderman / edited by Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Adam Shear, and Elchanan Reiner
- Published:
- Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2014]
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 378 pages ; 25 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Ruderman, David B., Cohen, Richard I., Dohrmann, Natalie B., Shear, Adam, and Reiner, Elchanan
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I.Realms Of Authority: Conflict And Adaptation -- Continuity or Change -- The Case of Two Prominent Jewish Portuguese Clans in the Ottoman Empire / Joseph R. Hacker -- Don't Mess with Messer Leon -- Halakhah and Humanism in Fifteenth-Century Italy / Elliott Horowitz -- Jews and Habsburgs in Prague and Regensburg -- On the Political and Cultural Significance of Solomon Molkho's Relics / Matt Goldish -- Jewish Women in the Wake of the Chmielnicki Uprising -- Gzeires Tah-Tat as a Gendered Experience / Adam Teller -- For God and Country -- Jewish Identity and the State in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam / Benjamin Fisher -- "A Civil Death" -- Sovereignty and the Jewish Republic in an Early Modern Treatment of Genesis 49:10 / Anne Oravetz Albert -- II.Knowledge Networks -- The Hebrew Bible and the Senses in Late Medieval Spain / Talya Fishman -- Printing Kabbalah in Sixteenth-Century Italy / Moshe Idel -- Persecution and the Art of Printing -- Hebrew Books in Italy in the 1550s / Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin -- Kabbalah and the Diagrammatic Phase of the Scientific Revolution / J. H. (Yossi) Chajes -- Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo's Engagement with Atomism -- Some Further Explorations into a Knotty Problem / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- III."Jews" And "Judaism" In The Early Modern European Imagination -- The Theater of Creation and Re-creation / Giuseppe Mazzotta -- Weeping over Erasmus in Hebrew and Latin / Joanna Weinberg -- "Fair Measures from Our Region" -- The Study of Jewish Antiquities in Renaissance Italy / Andrew Berns -- Christian Hebraism and the Rediscovery of Hellenistic Judaism / Anthony Grafton -- Jews, Nobility, and Usury in Luther's Europe / Jonathan Karp -- "Adopt This Person So Totally Born Again" -- Elias Schadeus and the Conversion of the Jews / Debra Kaplan -- The Conservative Hybridity of Miguel de Barrios / Adam Sutcliffe -- Le Don Quichotte d'Antônio Jose Da Silva, les Marionnettes -- du Bairro Alto et les Prisons de L'Inquisition / Roger Chartier -- IV.The Long Eighteenth Century In An Early Modern Key -- The Collapse of Jacob's Ladders? -- A Suggested Perspective on the Problem of Secularization on the Eve of the Enlightenment / Michael Heyd -- A Jew from the East Meets Books from the West / Yaacob Dweck -- Printing, Fundraising, and Jewish Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Livorno / Francesca Bregoli -- An Interpretive Tradition -- Connecting Europe and the "East" in the Eighteenth Century / Andrea Schatz -- Gibbon's Jews -- Dead but Alive in Eighteenth-Century England / David S. Katz -- The "Happy Time" of Moses Mendelssohn and the Transformative Year 1782 / Shmuel Feiner -- A Tale of Three Generations -- Shifting Attitudes toward Haskalah, Mendelssohn, and Acculturation / Sharon Flatto -- An Underclass in Jewish History? -- Jewish Maidservants in East European Jewish Society, 1700--1900 / Rebecca Kobrin -- V.From The Early Modern To The Late Modern (And Back Again) -- Did North American Jewry Have an Early Modern Period? / Beth S. Wenger -- Language and Periodization -- Mendele Moykher Sforim and the Revival of Pre-Haskalah Style / Israel Bartal -- The End or the Beginning -- Jewish Modernity and the Reception of Rahel Varnhagen / Vivian Liska -- Between Yitzhak Baer and Claudio Sanchez Albornoz -- The Rift That Never Healed / Yosef Kaplan.
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- ISBN:
- 9780822944331 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0822944332 (hardcover : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
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