Susan L Einbinder

No Place of Rest

Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"No Place of Rest" pursues the literary traces of the traumatic expulsion of Jews from France in 1306. Through careful readings of liturgical, philosophical, memorial, and medical texts, Susan Einbinder reveals how medieval Jews asserted their identity in exile.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780812241150
• ISBN-10: 0812241150
• Artikelnr.: 24463197

Autorenporträt

Susan L. Einbinder is Professor of Hebrew Literature at Hebrew Union College. She is author of Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Isaac b. Abraham HaGorni: The Myth, the Man, and the Manuscript
Chapter 2. Form and History: Hebrew Pantograms and the Expulsion of 1306
Chapter 3. God's Forgotten Sheep: Liturgical Memory and Expulsion
Chapter 4. A Proper Diet: Medicine and History in Crescas Caslari's Esther
Chapter 5. Physicians and Their Daughters: Memory and Medicine during the
Plague Years
Chapter 6. Refrains in Exile: French Jewish Poetry in Northern Italy
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments