Jewish culture in early modern Europe : essays in honor of David B. Ruderman / edited by Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Adam Shear, and Elchanan Reiner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ruderman, David B., honouree.

Cohen, Richard I., editor.

Dohrmann, Natalie B., editor.

Shear, Adam, editor.

Reiner, Elchanan, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe--History--18th century.

Jews.

Jews--Europe--History--17th century.

Jews--Europe--History--16th century.

Jews--Civilization.

Judaism--Relations.

Judaism.

Relations.

Civilization, Modern--Jewish influences.

Civilization, Modern.

History.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Europe.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 368 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press ; Cincinnati, OH : Hebrew Union College Press, 2014.

Contents:

I Realms of Authority: Conflict and Adaptation

Continuity or Change: The Case of Two Prominent Jewish Portuguese Clans in the Ottoman Empire / Joseph R. Hacker Hacker, Joseph R. 3

Don't Mess with Messer Leon: Halakhah and Humanism in Fifteenth-Century Italy Elliott Horowitz 18

Jews and Habsburgs in Prague and Regensburg: On the Political and Cultural Significance of Solomon Molkho's Relics / Matt Goldish Goldish, Matt 28

Jewish Women in the Wake of the Chmielnicki Uprising: Gzeires Tab-Tdtas a Gendered Experience / Adam Teller Teller, Adam 39

For God and Country: Jewish Identity and the State in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam / Benjamin Fisher Fisher, Benjamin 50

"A Civil Death": Sovereignty and the Jewish Republic in an Early Modern Treatment of Genesis 49:10 / Anne Oravetz Albert Albert, Anne Oravetz 63

II Knowledge Networks

The Hebrew Bible and the Senses in Late Medieval Spain / Talya Fishman Fishman, Talya 75

Printing Kabbalah in Sixteenth-Century Italy / Moshe Idel Idel, Moshe 85

Persecution and the Art of Printing: Hebrew Books in Italy in the 1550s / Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon 97

Kabbalah and the Diagrammatic Phase of the Scientific Revolution / J. H. (Yossi) Chafes Chafes, J. H. (Yossi) 109

Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo's Engagement with Atomism: Some Further Explorations into a Knotty Problem / Y. Tzvi Langermann Langermann, Y. Tzvi 124

III "Jews" and "Judaism" in the Early Modern European Imagination

The Theater of Creation and Re-creation / Giuseppe Mazzotta Mazzotta, Giuseppe 137

Weeping over Erasmus in Hebrew and Latin / Joanna Weinberg Weinberg, Joanna 145

"Fair Measures from Our Region": The Study of Jewish Antiquities in Renaissance Italy / Andrew Berns Berns, Andrew 156

Christian Hebraism and the Rediscovery of Hellenistic Judaism / Anthony Grafton Grafton, Anthony 169

Jews, Nobility, and Usury in Luther's Europe / Jonathan Karp Karp, Jonathan 181

"Adopt This Person So Totally Born Again": Elias Schadeus and the Conversion of the Jews / Debra Kaplan Kaplan, Debra 193

The Conservative Hybridity of Miguel de Barrios / Adam Sutcliffe Sutcliffe, Adam 205

Le Don Quicbotte d'Antônio José Da Silva, les Marionnettes du Bairro Alto et les Prisons de L'Inquisition / Roger Chartier Chartier, Roger 216

IV The Long Eighteenth Century in an Early Modern Key

The Collapse of Jacob's Ladders?: A Suggested Perspective on the Problem of Secularization on the Eve of the Enlightenment / Michael Heyd Heyd, Michael 229

A Jew from the East Meets Books from the West / Yaacob Dweck Dweck, Yaacob 239

Fundraising, and Jewish Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Livorno / Franceses Bregoli Bregoli, Franceses 250

An Interpretive Tradition: Connecting Europe and the "East" in the Eighteenth Century / Andrea Schatz Schatz, Andrea 260

Gibbon's Jews: Dead but Alive in Eighteenth-Century England / David S. Katz Katz, David S. 271

The "Happy Time" of Moses Mendelssohn and the Transformative Year 1782 / Shmuel Feiner Feiner, Shmuel 282

A Tale of Three Generations: Shifting Attitudes toward Haskalah, Mendelssohn, and Acculturation / Sharon Flatto Flatto, Sharon 294

An Underclass in Jewish History?: Jewish Maidservants in East European Jewish Society, 1700-1900 / Rebecca Kobrin Kobrin, Rebecca 307

V From The Early Modern to the Late Modern (and Back Again)

Did North American Jewry Have an Early Modern Period? / Beth S. Wenger Wenger, Beth S. 319

Language and Periodization: Mendele Moykher Sforim and the Revival of Pre-Haskalah Style / Israel Bartal Bartal, Israel 331

The End or the Beginning: Jewish Modernity and the Reception of Rahel Varnhagen / Vivian Liska Liska, Vivian 344

Between Yitzhak Baer and Claudio Sánchez Albornoz: The Rift That Never Healed / Yosef Kaplan Kaplan, Yosef 356.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780822944331

0822944332

OCLC:

871689538