Seeing with both eyes : Ephraim Luntshitz and the Polish-Jewish renaissance / by Leonard S. Levin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levin, Leonard, 1946- author.

Series:

Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 2.

Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, 1873-9008 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rabbis--Poland--Biography.

Rabbis.

Jewish philosophers--History--16th century.

Jewish philosophers.

Jewish philosophy--History--16th century.

Jewish philosophy.

Ephraim Solomon ben Aaron, of Luntshits, 1550-1619.

Ephraim Solomon ben Aaron.

Isserles, Moses ben Israel, approximately 1525-1572.

Isserles, Moses ben Israel.

Jaffe, Mordecai ben Abraham, approximately 1535-1612.

Jaffe, Mordecai ben Abraham.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston [Mass.] : Brill, c2008.

Leiden ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an integrated study of the revival of philosophical studies in 16th-century central-European Jewry focusing on seven major thinkers and especially on the intellectual development of Ephraim Luntshitz (1550-1619). Preoccupation with philosophy is traced through Moses Isserles, Solomon Luria, Mordecai Jaffe, Abraham Horowitz, Eliezer Ashkenazi, Maharal of Prague, and Ephraim Luntshitz. Analysis of these thinkers’ intellectual affiliations is based on close analysis of their primary texts, of which a generous selection is provided in translation for the first time. This work advances the scholarly study of 16th-century Polish-Jewish culture, the Polish Jewish Renaissance, the philosophical interests of Ashkenazic Jewry, Jewish responses to Renaissance humanism and the Reformation, and the early-modern background for the 18th-century Jewish Enlightenment.

Contents:

Circles of infuence: Polish Jewish thought in the age of the late Renaissance

The first wave (1550-1580) : Isserles, Jaffe, and Horowitz

Young Ephraim: Ephraim's early outlook as expressed in City of Heroes

The debate between Eliezer and Maharal

Ephraim discovers philosophy

The quest of reason: the outlook of the Precious Ornament (part 1)

Return to origins: the outlook of the Precious Ornament (part 2)

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

"English and Hebrew titles of primary works": p. [xv]-xvi.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-220) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06065-5

9786613060655

90-474-3274-6

OCLC:

704811957

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004164840.i-452 DOI