The Jewish Quarterly Review
Author : Cyrus Adler
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Page : 372 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Jews
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Author : Cyrus Adler
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Jews
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Author : Shlomo Simonsohn
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
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Author : Yitzhak min ha-Leviyi
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Yiṣḥāq min hal-lewiyyîm
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 1985
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Page : 996 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
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Author : Leone Modena
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0691213933
Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community--a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. Modena (1571-1648) produced an autobiography that documents in poignant detail the turbulent life of his family in the Jewish ghetto of Venice. The text of this work is well known to Jewish scholars but has never before been translated from the original Hebrew, except in brief excerpts. This complete translation, based on Modena's autograph manuscript, makes available in English a wealth of historical material about Jewish family life of the period, religion in daily life, the plague of 1630-1631, crime and punishment, the influence of kabbalistic mysticism, and a host of other subjects. The translator, Mark R. Cohen, and four other distinguished scholars add commentary that places the work in historical and literary context. Modena describes his fascination with the astrology and alchemy that were important parts of the Jewish and general culture of the seventeenth century. He also portrays his struggle against poverty and against compulsive gambling, which, cleverly punning on a biblical verse, he called the "sin of Judah." In addition, the book contains accounts of Modena's sorrow over his three sons: the death of the eldest from the poisonous fumes of his own alchemical laboratory, the brutal murder of the youngest, and the exile of the remaining son. The introductory essay by Mark R. Cohen and Theodore K. Rabb highlights the significance of the work for early modern Jewish and general European history. Howard E. Adelman presents an up-to-date biographical sketch of the author and points the way toward a new assessment of his place in Jewish history. Natalie Z. Davis places Modena's work in the context of European autobiography, both Christian and Jewish, and especially explores the implications of the Jewish status as outsider for the privileged exploration of the self. A set of historical notes, compiled by Howard Adelman and Benjamin C. I. Ravid, elucidates the text.
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Page : 1452 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Arts
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A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
Author : Itzhak Min-Halleviyyim
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Page : pages
File Size : 13,81 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Raphael Posner
Publisher : Jerusalem : Keter Publishing House Jerusalem
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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This volume is primarily based on the monumental Encyclopedia Judaica which was published in 1972 in Jerusalem. Throughout the 16 volumes of that immense work, the story of the Hebrew book is scattered, and its constituent parts are presented, as is fitting, in an encyclopedia manner. For the purpose of this book, all that information was gathered, re-edited and re-organized to present this fascinating subject to the reader in a form which, to quote the biblical phrase about an early piece of Hebrew writing, is "plain upon the tables, that a man may read it swiftly." Clearly, the present editors are entirely responsible for the material as it appears in this volume.
Author : Robert C. Davis
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2001-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801865121
The constraints of the ghetto and the concomitant interaction of various Jewish traditions produced a remarkable cultural flowering.