Connecting Histories: Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2019

Connecting Histories

Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe

Edited by: David B. Ruderman and Francesca Bregoli

In the series Jewish Culture and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296037

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About this book

Exploring the ways in which early modern Jews related to Jews from different backgrounds and to the non-Jews around them, Connecting Histories emphasizes not only the challenging nature and impact of these encounters but also the ambivalence experienced by Jews as they met their others.

Author / Editor information

Francesca Bregoli is Associate Professor of History at Queens College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and holds the Joseph and Oro Halegua Chair in Greek and Sephardic Studies at Queens College. She is author of Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform. David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Pennyslvania. He is author of numerous books, including National Jewish Book Award winners The World of a Renaissance Jew and Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History. His Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England and Cultural Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy, coedited with Giuseppe Veltri, are both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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"Covering a wide range of experience in the Jewish world in terms of geography, economics, class, religious proclivities, languages, and genres, Connecting Histories should be required reading for scholars of early modern Jewish history."—Matt Goldish, The Ohio State University

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Introduction. Connecting Histories: Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe Francesca Bregoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Jews and Their Jewish Others
Chapter 1. Connecting Stories? A Yiddish Folktale and Its Unpopular Hebrew Versions Rebekka Voß Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 2. “The Poor of Your City Come First”: Jewish Ritual and the Itinerant Poor in Early Modern Germany Debra Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Chapter 3. A Sixteenth-Century Rabbi as a Published Author: The Early Editions of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe’s Levushim Pavel Sládek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 4. New Kabbalistic Genres and Their Readers in Early Modern Europe Andrea Gondos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 5. The “Significant Other/s” and Their/Our Histories Moshe Idel Moshe Idel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
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 Fabrizio Lelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 7. Praising the “Idolater”: A Poem for Christians by Rabbi Leon Modena Michela Andreatta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Chapter 8. Crossing the Name Barrier: Non-Jewish Names in the Memoirs of Glikl bas Leib and in Early Modern Ashkenazic Jewish Culture Joseph Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter 9. Pride and Punishment: Christians and Jews on the Meaning of the Jewish Presence in Worms Lucia Raspe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Chapter 10. A Jewish Easter Lamb: Cultural Connection and Its Limits in a 1716 Prague Procession Rachel L. Greenblatt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Chapter 11. Leibush the Lawless and His Border Tavern Gershon David Hundert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
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 Jesús de Prado Plumed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Chapter 13. From “Potential” and “Fuzzy” Jews to “Non-Jewish Jews”/“Jewish Non-Jews”: Conversos Living in Iberia and Early Modern Jewry Claude B. Stuczynski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Other: 2 illus.
Keywords: History; Religion; Jewish Studies Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Religious Studies

eBook

Published: March 7, 2019
ISBN: 9780812296037