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Tradition and crisis : Jewish society at the end of the Middle Ages / Jacob Katz ; translated and with an afterword and bibliography by Bernard Dov Cooperman.
LIBRA DS112 .K373 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katz, Jacob, 1904-1998.
- Series:
- Medieval studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Medieval studies
- Standardized Title:
- Masoret u-mashber. English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Jews.
- Jews--History--70-1789.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 392 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Jacob Katz's landmark study of Jewish life in the High Middle Ages sheds new light on the origins of modernity, including Jewish-Gentile relations, the Jewish role in early capitalism, the beginnings of Haskala (Enlightenment) and of Hasidism.
- Contents:
- Part I The Basis of Existence 1
- 2 Jewish Society and Its Environment 10
- 3 Barriers against the Outside 17
- 4 Contact with the Surrounding Society 26
- 5 The Attitude toward the Environment 31
- 6 Economic Structures 38
- 7 Sociological Aspects of Jewish Capitalism 44
- 8 Religion and Economic Activity 52
- Part II Communal Institutions and Structure 63
- 9 The Form and Structure of the Kehila 65
- 10 The Kehila's Range of Activities 76
- 11 The Composition of the Kehila 88
- 12 Inter-communal Relations 95
- 13 Supra-Kehila Organizations 103
- 14 The Family 113
- 15 The Extended Family 125
- 16 Confraternities and Social Life 132
- 17 Religious Institutions 141
- 18 Educational Institutions 156
- 19 Stratification and Mobility 170
- Part III The Beginnings of Breakdown 181
- 20 The Impact of Historical Events 183
- 21 Historic Turning Points 195
- 22 The Transition to Hasidism 202
- 23 The Emergence of the Neutral Society 214
- 24 The Haskala's Vision of the Future 226
- Afterword: Tradition and Crisis and the Study of Early Modern Jewish History / Bernard Dov Cooperman 237.
- Notes:
- Previously published: 1st pbk. ed. New York : Schocken Books, c1993.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815628277
- OCLC:
- 43036914
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