Connecting Histories : : Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe /

Connecting Histories : : Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe / / ed. by Francesca Bregoli, David B. Ruderman.

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 un...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
MitwirkendeR:
Andreatta, Michela,
Bregoli, Francesca,
Davis, Joseph,
Gondos, Andrea,
Greenblatt, Rachel L.,
Hundert, Gershon David,
Idel, Moshe,
Kaplan, Debra,
Lelli, Fabrizio,
Prado Plumed, Jesús de,
Raspe, Lucia,
Sládek, Pavel,
Stuczynski, Claude B.,
Voß, Rebekka,
HerausgeberIn:
Bregoli, Francesca,
Ruderman, David B.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 2 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Connecting Histories: Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe
  • Part I. Jews and Their Jewish Others
  • Chapter 1. Connecting Stories? A Yiddish Folktale and Its Unpopular Hebrew Versions
  • Chapter 2. “The Poor of Your City Come First”: Jewish Ritual and the Itinerant Poor in Early Modern Germany
  • Chapter 3. A Sixteenth-Century Rabbi as a Published Author: The Early Editions of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe’s Levushim
  • Chapter 4. New Kabbalistic Genres and Their Readers in Early Modern Europe
  • Chapter 5. The “Significant Other/s” and Their/Our Histories Moshe Idel
  • Part II. Jews and Their Non-Jewish Others
  • Chapter 6. On the Mysteries of the Law: A Conversation Between Pietro Aretino and Rabbi Elijah Menahem Ḥalfan
  • Chapter 7. Praising the “Idolater”: A Poem for Christians by Rabbi Leon Modena
  • Chapter 8. Crossing the Name Barrier: Non-Jewish Names in the Memoirs of Glikl bas Leib and in Early Modern Ashkenazic Jewish Culture
  • Chapter 9. Pride and Punishment: Christians and Jews on the Meaning of the Jewish Presence in Worms
  • Chapter 10. A Jewish Easter Lamb: Cultural Connection and Its Limits in a 1716 Prague Procession
  • Chapter 11. Leibush the Lawless and His Border Tavern
  • Part III. Conversos and Their Others
  • Chapter 12. Alone Among the Sages of Sepharad?: Alfonso de Zamora and the Symbolic Capital of Converso Christian Hebraism in Spain After 1492
  • Chapter 13. From “Potential” and “Fuzzy” Jews to “Non-Jewish Jews”/“Jewish Non-Jews”: Conversos Living in Iberia and Early Modern Jewry
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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