Early Modern Jewish Civilization (eBook, ePUB)

Unity and Diversity in a Diasporic Society. An Introduction
Redaktion: Graizbord, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection is an introductory historical survey and selective cultural analysis of the development, coalescence, and eventual waning of a diasporic civilization-that of the Jews of the early modern period (ca. 1391-1789) in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and key nodes of the Iberian Empires in the Americas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040004791
• Artikelnr.: 72271181

Autorenporträt

David Graizbord, a historian, is Curson Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. His publications include Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700 (2004), and The New Zionists: Young American Jews, Jewish National Identity, and Israel (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Continuities and Discontinuities in The Formation of a Transoceanic Diaspora, 1391-1789 2. Who were the Jews of the Pre-Modern Diaspora? 3.
ayei ha-Torah (The Life of Torah): Rabbinic Culture and The Pre-Modern Heritage Preserved and Adapted 4. Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel): The Homeland, its Jews, and their Orienting Influence 5. 'Umot ha-'Olam (The Nations of the Earth): Relations with The Other(s) - Part 1: Iberian Watersheds: The Crisis of judeoconversos and The Evolution of Anti-Jewish Bigotry; Iberian judeoconversos and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Polemical Tracts - Part 2: Jews and Their Non-Jewish Hosts in an Evolving Diaspora 6. Kol Yisrael 'Arevim Zeh la-Zeh ("All Israel are Mutually Responsible"): Self-Government, Economy, and the Rise of New Diasporic Centers - The Jews of the Italian Peninsula; The Rise of New Diasporic Centers 7. Tsena u-Re'ena (Go Out and See): The World of Jewish Books 8.
abalah (Tradition): Early Modern Jewish Mysticism as a Devotional Matrix of Jewish Life 9. Minhagim: A Window on Popular Culture 10. 'Erev Rav (A Mixed Multitude): Class, Gender, and Ideological Cleavages 11.
asidut and Haskalah (Pietism and Enlightenment): Toward the Watershed of Modernity