Connecting histories : Jews and their others in early modern Europe / edited by Francesca Bregoli and David B. Ruderman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Bregoli, Francesca, editor.

Ruderman, David B., editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism.

History.

Relations.

Christianity.

Jews.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Manners and customs.

Ethnic relations.

Europe--Ethnic relations--History--To 1500.

Europe.

Jews--Europe--Social life and customs--To 1500.

Jews--Europe--Identity--History--To 1500.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History--To 1500.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism--History--To 1500.

Interfaith relations.

Jews--Identity.

Jews--Social life and customs.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 318 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]

Summary:

Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of early modern Europe were extraordinarily mobile, experiencing both displacement and integration into new cultural, legal, and political settings. This, in turn, led to unprecedented modes of social mixing for Jews, especially for those living in urban areas, who frequently encountered Jews from different ethnic backgrounds and cultural orientations. Additionally, Jews formed social, economic, and intellectual bonds with mixed populations of Christians. While not necessarily effacing Jewish loyalties to local places, authorities, and customs, these connections and exposures to novel cultural settings created new allegiances as well as new challenges, resulting in constructive relations in some cases and provoking strife and controversy in others. The essays collected by Francesca Bregoli and David B. Ruderman in 'Connecting Histories' show that while it is not possible to speak of a single, cohesive transregional Jewish culture in the early modern period, Jews experienced pockets of supra-local connections between West and East-for example, between Italy and Poland, Poland and the Holy Land, and western and eastern Ashkenaz-as well as increased exchanges between high and low culture. Special attention is devoted to the impact of the printing press and the strategies of representation and self-representation through which Jews forged connections in a world where their status as a tolerated minority was ambiguous and in constant need of renegotiation.

Contents:

Connecting stories? : a Yiddish folktale and its unpopular Hebrew versions / Rebekka Voss

"The poor of your city come first" : Jewish ritual and the itinerant poor in early modern Germany / Debra Kaplan

A sixteenth-century rabbi as a published author : the early editions of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe's Levushim / Pavel Sládek

New Kabbalistic genres and their readers in early modern Europe / Andrea Gondos

The "Significant other/s" and their/our histories / Moshe Idel

On the mysteries of the law : a conversation between Pietro Aretino and Rabbi Elijah Menahem Ḥalfan / Fabrizio Lelli

Praising the "idolater" : a poem for Christians by Rabbi Leon Modena / Michela Andreatta

Crossing the name barrier : non-Jewish names in the memoirs of Glikl bas Leib and in early modern Ashkenazic Jewish culture / Joseph Davis

Pride and punishment : Christians and Jews on the meaning of the Jewish presence in Worms / Lucia Raspe

A Jewish Easter lamb : cultural connection and its limits in a 1716 Prague procession / Rachel L. Greenblatt

Leibush the Lawless and his border tavern / Gershon David Hundert

Alone among the sages of Sepharad? : Alfonso de Zamora and the symbolic capital of converso Christian Hebraism in Spain after 1492 / Jesús de Prado Plumed

From "potential" and "fuzzy" Jews to "non-Jewish Jews"/"Jewish non-Jews" : conversos living in Iberia and early modern Jewry / Claude B. Stuczynski.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780812250916

0812250915

OCLC:

1047773456