The Jews in Christian Europe : a source book, 315-1791 / Jacob Rader Marcus, Marc Saperstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marcus, Jacob Rader, 1896-1995, author.

Saperstein, Marc, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--History--Europe--70-1789--Sources.

Jews.

Jews--Europe--Politics and government--Sources.

Jews--Europe--Social life and customs--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (746 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Hebrew Union College Press : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]

Summary:

First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's The Jews in The Medieval World has remained an indispensable resource for its comprehensive view of Jewish historical experience from late antiquity through the early modern period, viewed through primary source documents in English translation. In this new work based on Marcus's classic source book, Marc Saperstein has recast the volume's focus, now fully centered on Christian Europe, updated the work's organizational format, and added seventy-two new annotated sources. In his compelling introduction, Saperstein supplies a modern and thought-provoking discussion of the changing values that influence our understanding of history, analyzing issues surrounding periodization, organization, and inclusion. Through a vast range of documents written by Jews and Christians, including historical narratives, legal opinions, martyrologies, memoirs, polemics, epitaphs, advertisements, folktales, ethical and pedagogical writings, book prefaces and colophons, commentaries, and communal statutes, The Jews in Christian Europe allows the actors and witnesses of events to speak for themselves.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Bibliographical Abbreviations; Section I. External Relations; 1. The Council of Elvira; 2. Christian Leaders Object to the Sabbath and to the Jewish Dating of Easter; 3. Jews and the Later Roman Law; 4. Julian and the Jews; 5. St. Ambrose and the Jews; 6. Augustine; 7. Pope Gregory the Great and the Jews; 8. The Jews of Spain: Church Councils and the Visigothic Code; 9. Louis the Pious; 10. Agobard of Lyons; 11. Bodo and the Jews; 12. Charters; 13. The Crusaders in Mainz; 14. The Accusation of the Ritual Murder of St. William of Norwich

15. The Ritual Murder Accusation at Blois16. The Expulsion of the Jews from France; 17. The York Riots; 18. Innocent III and the Jews; 19. A Jewish Woman Impregnated by a Cleric; A Jewish Woman Who Became a Catholic; 20. The Burning of the Talmud; 21. King Louis and the Jews; 22. Medieval Spanish Law and the Jews; 23. A Bull of Pope Gregory X; 24. The Black Death and the Jews; 25. An Oath Taken by Jews; 26. Anti-Jewish Riots in the Iberian Peninsula; 27. The Passau Host Desecration; 28. The Spanish Inquisition Begins Operations; 29. The Expulsion from Spain

30. The Massacre of the New Christians of Lisbon31. The Spanish Inquisition at Work; 32. Reuchlin's Appeal to Bonetto de Lattes; 33. Martin Luther and the Jews; 34. The Burning of the Talmud in Italy; 35. Pope Paul IV Cum nimis absurdum; 36. A New Jewish Community in the Netherlands; 37. The Cossack Revolt; 38. A Petition for the Readmission of the Jews to England; 39. The Readmission of the Jews into Brandenburg; 40. The Martyrdom of the Reizes Brothers; 41. The Charter Decreed by Frederick II for the Jews of Prussia; 42. The Punishment for Sacrilege

43. Ezekiel Landau's Eulogy for the Empress Maria TheresaSection II. Internal Dynamics; A. Jewish Self-Government; 44. Legal Questions Regarding Communal Authority; 45. Ordinances (Takkanot) of Rabbenu Gershom; 46. Judah ben Asher: Homicide and Criminal Penalties; 47. Valladolid Synod of Castilian Jews; 48. Sumptuary and Other Police Laws; 49. Joseph Colon's Responsa on Community Ordinances and Rabbinic Synods; 50. The Shulhan Arukh and Its Mappah; 51. The Council of Four Lands and the Lithuanian Council; 52. The Ransom of Captives: Eastern and Southern Europe

53. The Barbers' Guild at Cracow, Poland54. The Constitution of the Jewish Community of Sugenheim Town; 55. An Attack on the Hasidim; Internal Dynamics - B. Jewish Notables ; 56. Shephatiah and Basil I in Constantinople; 57. Solomon bar Isaac (Rashi); 58. Rabbenu Jacob ben Meir and the Crusaders; 59. Abraham ibn Ezra; 60. Moses ben Nahman (Ramban); 61. Abraham Abulafia; 62. Gersonides on Miracles; 63. Joseph ibn Shem Tov: A Sermon on Jewish Suffering; 64. Don Isaac Abravanel on Monarchy and Republics; 65. David Reubeni; 66. Josel of Rosheim; 67. The Oath of Amatus Lusitanus

68. Maharal of Prague

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8229-8123-8