Reading Jewish History In The Renaissance
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Reading Jewish History in the Renaissance
Author | : Nadia Zeldes |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2020-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781498573429 |
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Using the Hebrew Book of Josippon as a prism, this study analyzes the dialogue surrounding Jewish history among Renaissance humanists. Notwithstanding its focus on the Renaissance, the author’s analysis extends to the consumption of Josippon in the High Middle Ages and into interpretations by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century humanists. With a focus on both Christian and Jewish discourse, the author examines the mythical and historical narratives that developed from Josippon.
Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution
Author | : Kenneth B. Moss |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009-10-30 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0674035100 |
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Between 1917 and 1921, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the Russian empire pursued a “Jewish renaissance.” Here is a revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism, and culture itself—the pivot point for the encounter between Jews and European modernity over the past century.
The Jews in the Renaissance
Author | : Cecil Roth |
Publsiher | : Philadelphia, Jewish Pub. S. of America |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106000426699 |
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Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America
Author | : Eitan P. Fishbane,Jonathan D. Sarna |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611681928 |
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An anthology that explores religious and social revival in American Judaism in the 19th century
Christians and Jews in the Twelfth Century Renaissance
Author | : Dr Anna Brechta Sapir Abulafia,Anna Abulafia |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134990252 |
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The twelfth century was a period of rapid change in Europe. The intellectual landscape was being transformed by new access to classical works through non-Christian sources. The Christian church was consequently trying to strengthen its control over the priesthood and laity and within the church a dramatic spiritual renewal was taking place. Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance reveals the consequences for the only remaining non-Christian minority in the heartland of Europe: the Jews. Anna Abulafia probes the anti-Jewish polemics of scholars who used the new ideas to redefine the position of the Jews within Christian society. They argued that the Jews had a different capacity for reason since they had not reached the 'right' conclusion - Christianity. They formulated a universal construct of humanity which coincided with universal Christendom, from which the Jews were excluded. Dr Abulafia shows how the Jews' exclusion from this view of society contributed to their growing marginalization from the twelfth century onwards. Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance is important reading for all students and teachers of medieval history and theology, and for all those with an interest in Jewish history.
The World of a Renaissance Jew
Author | : David B. Ruderman |
Publsiher | : Hebrew Union College Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1981-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780878201389 |
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Within the Italian city states of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a relatively high degree of mutual tolerance and tranquility existed between the enlightened Christian majority and the small Jewish minority. With the prevalence of favorable political, social, and economic circumstances for Jewish life in Italy, a considerable number of Jews participated freely in Renaissance culture while upholding an intense awareness of their own particular identity. This work is a study of the life and thought of one such Jew, Abraham b. Mordecai Farissol (1452-ca. 1528). While born in Avignon, Farissol spent most of his life in Italy close to the cultural centers of Renaissance society, primarily in Ferrara, but also in Mantua, Florence, and other Italian cities. As scribe, educator, cantor, communal leader, polemicist, Biblical exegete, and geographer, Farissol developed variegated interests and associations which provide exciting vantage points from which to view his cultural and social world. As one of the first comprehensive studies of any Italian Jewish figure of the period, this book represents an important contribution to an understanding of Jewish society and culture. But the significance of this study of Farissol's life extends beyond what can be learned about the man and his immediate community of co-religionists. Utilizing the life and thought of one person, it explores and explicates the dialogue between Judaism and the culture of the Italian Renaissance. Despite its intrinsic interest, Jewish intellectual history in the Renaissance has remained an underdeveloped field. Many sources still remain unexamined; monographs on specific themes and figures have yet to be written. David Ruderman's study breaks new ground by making use of extensive, yet previously unpublished sources on Farissol and his society and by integrating them into the broader context of Jewish and Renaissance culture. The work is of particular interest to historians of the Jews and of Renaissance Italy. It also offers the general reader an excellent case study of the symbiotic relationship between Western culture and its Jewish minority in one of the most fertile periods of European civilization. In dramatic fashion it illustrates how Jews not only survived but creatively flourished in a pluralistic setting by appropriating from the outside new forms and ideas which they integrated into their own vital cultural experience.
A Convert s Tale
Author | : Tamar Herzig |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2019-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674237537 |
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Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.
Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy
Author | : Robert Bonfil |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 1994-03-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520910997 |
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With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation." Questioning the Italians' presumed capacity for tolerance and civility, he points out that Jews were frequently uprooted and persecuted, and where stable communities did grow up, it was because the hostility of the Christian population had somehow been overcome. After the ghetto was imposed in Venice, Rome, and other Italian cities, Jewish settlement became more concentrated. Bonfil claims that the ghetto experience did more to intensify Jewish self-perception in early modern Europe than the supposed acculturation of the Renaissance. He shows how, paradoxically, ghetto living opened and transformed Jewish culture, hastening secularization and modernization. Bonfil's detailed picture reveals in the Italian Jews a sensitivity and self-awareness that took into account every aspect of the larger society. His inside view of a culture flourishing under stress enables us to understand how identity is perceived through constant interplay—on whatever terms—with the Other.