Connecting histories: Jews and their others in early modern Europe
Exploring the ways in which early modern Jews related to Jews from different backgrounds and to the non-Jews around them, Connecting Histories emphasizes not only the challenging nature and impact of these encounters but also the ambivalence experienced by Jews as they met their others.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Jewish Culture and Contexts Ser.
Jewish culture and contexts |
| Further subjects: | B
Jews-Europe-Social life and customs-To 1500
B Europe-Ethnic relations-History-To 1500 B Jews-Europe-Identity-History-To 1500 B Judaism-Relations-Christianity-History-To 1500 B Christianity and other religions-Judaism-History-To 1500 B Electronic books |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780812250916 |
| Summary: | Exploring the ways in which early modern Jews related to Jews from different backgrounds and to the non-Jews around them, Connecting Histories emphasizes not only the challenging nature and impact of these encounters but also the ambivalence experienced by Jews as they met their others. Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. Connecting Histories: Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe -- Part I. Jews and Their Jewish Others -- Chapter 1. Connecting Stories? A Yiddish Folktale and Its Unpopular Hebrew Versions -- Chapter 2. "The Poor of Your City Come First": Jewish Ritual and the Itinerant Poor in Early Modern Germany -- Chapter 3. A Sixteenth-Century Rabbi as a Published Author: The Early Editions of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe's Levushim -- Chapter 4. New Kabbalistic Genres and Their Readers in Early Modern Europe -- Chapter 5. The "Significant Other/s" and Their/Our Histories -- Part II. Jews and Their Non-Jewish Others -- Chapter 6. On the Mysteries of the Law: A Conversation Between Pietro Aretino and Rabbi Elijah Menahem Ḥalfan -- Chapter 7. Praising the "Idolater": A Poem for Christians by Rabbi Leon Modena -- Chapter 8. Crossing the Name Barrier: Non-Jewish Names in the Memoirs of Glikl bas Leib and in Early Modern Ashkenazic Jewish Culture -- Chapter 9. Pride and Punishment: Christians and Jews on the Meaning of the Jewish Presence in Worms -- Chapter 10. A Jewish Easter Lamb: Cultural Connection and Its Limits in a 1716 Prague Procession -- Chapter 11. Leibush the Lawless and His Border Tavern -- Part III. Conversos and Their Others -- Chapter 12. Alone Among the Sages of Sepharad?: Alfonso de Zamora and the Symbolic Capital of Converso Christian Hebraism in Spain After 1492 -- Chapter 13. From "Potential" and "Fuzzy" Jews to "Non-Jewish Jews"/"Jewish Non-Jews": Conversos Living in Iberia and Early Modern Jewry -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments. |
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| ISBN: | 0812296036 |