Early History of the Jews of Middletown, Connecticut
Author : Jacob Jay Lindenthal
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Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Jacob Jay Lindenthal
Publisher :
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Amram Tropper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1317247078
Half a century ago, the primary contours of the history of the Jews in Roman times were not subject to much debate. This standard account collapsed, however, when a handful of insights undermined the traditional historical method, the method long enlisted by historians for eliciting facts from sources. In response to these insights, a new historical method gradually emerged. Rewriting Ancient Jewish History critiques the traditional historical method and makes a case for the new one, illustrating how to write anew ancient Jewish history. At the heart of the traditional historical method lie three fundamental presumptions. The traditional historical method regularly presumes that multiple versions of a text or tradition are equally authentic; it presumes that many ancient Jewish sources are the products of largely immanent forces of cloistered Jewish communities; and, barring any local grounds for suspicion, it presumes that most ancient Jewish texts faithfully reflect their sources and reliably recount events. Rewriting Ancient Jewish History unfurls the failings of this approach; it promotes the new historical method which circumvents the flawed traditional presumptions while plotting anew the limits of rational argumentation in historical inquiry. This crucial reappraisal is a must-read for students of Jewish and Roman history alike, and a fascinating case-study in how historians should approach their ancient sources.
Author : Christopher Collier
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Connecticut
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A survey of published literature on Connecticut history with essays on, lists of, and annotations for works listed.
Author : Norman Drachler
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 971 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081434349X
Entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education. This book contains entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German—books, research reports, educational and general periodicals, synagogue histories, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and encyclopedias—on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education
Author : Daniel B. Schwartz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 069116214X
Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three centuries, Spinoza's rupture with traditional Jewish beliefs and practices has elevated him to a prominent place in genealogies of Jewish modernity. The First Modern Jew provides a riveting look at how Spinoza went from being one of Judaism's most notorious outcasts to one of its most celebrated, if still highly controversial, cultural icons, and a powerful and protean symbol of the first modern secular Jew. Ranging from Amsterdam to Palestine and back again to Europe, the book chronicles Spinoza's posthumous odyssey from marginalized heretic to hero, the exemplar of a whole host of Jewish identities, including cosmopolitan, nationalist, reformist, and rejectionist. Daniel Schwartz shows that in fashioning Spinoza into "the first modern Jew," generations of Jewish intellectuals--German liberals, East European maskilim, secular Zionists, and Yiddishists--have projected their own dilemmas of identity onto him, reshaping the Amsterdam thinker in their own image. The many afterlives of Spinoza are a kind of looking glass into the struggles of Jewish writers over where to draw the boundaries of Jewishness and whether a secular Jewish identity is indeed possible. Cumulatively, these afterlives offer a kaleidoscopic view of modern Jewish cultureand a vivid history of an obsession with Spinoza that continues to this day.
Author : Cornelia Aust
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0253035449
In this rich transnational history, Cornelia Aust traces Jewish Ashkenazi families as they moved across Europe and established new commercial and entrepreneurial networks as they went. Aust balances economic history with elaborate discussions of Jewish marriage patterns, women's economic activity, and intimate family life. Following their travels from Amsterdam to Warsaw, Aust opens a multifaceted window into the lives, relationships, and changing conditions of Jewish economic activity of a new Jewish mercantile elite.
Author : Marc Zvi Brettler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134649843
The Creation of History in Ancient Israel demonstrates how the historian can start to piece together the history of ancient Israel using the Hebrew Bible as a source.
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Page : 630 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 1906
Category : New England
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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Author : A. H. Merrills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521846011
Examines the role of geography in the historical writings of the early medieval period.
Author : Nadia Zeldes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1498573428
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.