Cultures of the Jews : a new history / edited by David Biale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biale, David, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--History.

Jews.

History.

Jews--Civilization.

Judaism--History.

Judaism.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 1196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Schocken Books, [2002]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

A collection of essays by twenty-three international scholars sheds new light on the history of the Jews from biblical times to the modern day and explores the fundamental question of Jewish culture and identity at each period in history, in three chronological sections--Mediterranean Origins, Diversities of Diaspora, and Modern Encounters.

Contents:

Imagining the birth of ancient Israel: national metaphors in the Bible / Ilana Pardes

Israel among the nations: biblical culture in the ancient Near East / Ronald S. Hendel

Hellenistic Judaism / Erich S. Gruen

Jewish culture in Greco-Roman Palestine / Eric M. Meyers

Confronting a Christian empire: Jewish culture in the world of Byzantium / Oded Irshai

Babylonian Rabbinic culture / Isaiah Gafni

Jewish culture in the formative period of Islam / Reuven Firestone

Merchants and intellectuals, rabbis and poets: Judeo-Arabic culture in the golden age of Islam / Raymond P. Scheindlin

A letter to a wayward teacher: the transformations of Sephardic culture in Christian Iberia / Benjamin R. Gampel

A Jewish-Christian symbiosis: the culture of early Ashkenaz / Ivan G. Marcus

Innovative tradition: Jewish culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Moshe Rosman

Families and their fortunes: the Jews of early modern Italy / Elliott Horowitz

Bom Judesmo: the Western Sephardic Diaspora / Yosef Kaplan

Childbirth and magic: Jewish Folklore and material culture / Shalom Sabar.

Urban visibility and biblical visions: Jewish culture in Western and Central Europe in the modern age / Richard I. Cohen

A journey between worlds: East European Jewish culture from the partitions of Poland to the Holocaust / David Biale

The Ottoman Diaspora: the rise and fall of Ladino literary culture / Aron Rodrigue

Multicultural visions: the cultural tapestry of the Jews of North Africa / Lucette Valensi

Challenges to tradition: Jewish cultures in Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Bukhara / Yosef Tobi

Religious interplay on an African stage: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia / Hagar Salamon

Locus and language: Hebrew culture in Israel, 1890-1990 / Ariel Hirschfeld

The "other" Israel: folk cultures in the Modern state of Israel / Eli Yassif

Declarations on independence: American Jewish culture in the twentieth century / Stephen J. Whitfield.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

National Jewish Book Awards - Anthologies and Collections, Winner, 2002-2003

ISBN:

0805241310

9780805241310

OCLC:

49226067

Publisher Number:

9780805241310

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