Overview

This collection is an introductory historical survey and selective cultural analysis of the development, coalescence, and eventual waning of a diasporic civilization—that of the Jews of the early modern period (ca. 1391–1789) in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and key nodes of the Iberian Empires in the Americas. Each chapter explores key factors that shaped both distinctive early modern Jewish communities and a remarkably coalescent and far broader community-of-communities. The contributors engage and answer the following questions: What do historians mean by “early modernity,” and to what extent does the concept illuminate the history and culture(s) of Jews from the end of the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment? What were the general demographic contours of the Jewish diaspora over this period and how did they change? How did culture, politics, technology, economics, and gender shape diasporic Jewish communities across eastern and western Europe and the New World over the course of some 400 years? Ultimately, the work renders a portrait of coherence and diversity, continuity and discontinuity, in early modern Jewish life within and across temporal and geographic boundaries. Early Modern Jewish Civilization is essential reading for all students of Jewish history and civilization and early modern history more broadly.

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Author:   David Graizbord
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.870kg
ISBN:  

9780367767235

ISBN 10:   0367767236
Pages:   462
Publication Date:   18 September 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Continuities and Discontinuities in The Formation of a Transoceanic Diaspora, 1391-1789 2. Who were the Jews of the Pre-Modern Diaspora? 3. Ḥayei ha-Torah (The Life of Torah): Rabbinic Culture and The Pre-Modern Heritage Preserved and Adapted 4. Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel): The Homeland, its Jews, and their Orienting Influence 5. ‘Umot ha-‘Olam (The Nations of the Earth): Relations with The Other(s) - Part 1: Iberian Watersheds: The Crisis of judeoconversos and The Evolution of Anti-Jewish Bigotry; Iberian judeoconversos and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Polemical Tracts - Part 2: Jews and Their Non-Jewish Hosts in an Evolving Diaspora 6. Kol Yisrael ‘Arevim Zeh la-Zeh (“All Israel are Mutually Responsible”): Self-Government, Economy, and the Rise of New Diasporic Centers - The Jews of the Italian Peninsula; The Rise of New Diasporic Centers 7. Tsena u-Re’ena (Go Out and See): The World of Jewish Books 8. Ḳabalah (Tradition): Early Modern Jewish Mysticism as a Devotional Matrix of Jewish Life 9. Minhagim: A Window on Popular Culture 10. ‘Erev Rav (A Mixed Multitude): Class, Gender, and Ideological Cleavages 11. Ḥasidut and Haskalah (Pietism and Enlightenment): Toward the Watershed of Modernity

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David Graizbord, a historian, is Curson Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. His publications include Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700 (2004), and The New Zionists: Young American Jews, Jewish National Identity, and Israel (2020).

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