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Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest of society. Looking at how Jewish settlements in the early modern period were linked to one another in fascinating ways, he shows how Jews were communicating with each other and were more aware of their economic, social, and religious connections than ever before. Ruderman explores five crucial and powerful characteristics uniting Jewish communities: a mobility leading to enhanced contacts between Jews of differing backgrounds, traditions, and languages, as well as between Jews and non-Jews; a heightened sense of communal cohesion throughout all Jewish settlements that revealed the rising power of lay oligarchies; a knowledge explosion brought about by the printing press, the growing interest in Jewish books by Christian readers, an expanded curriculum of Jewish learning, and the entrance of Jewish elites into universities; a crisis of rabbinic authority expressed through active messianism, mystical prophecy, radical enthusiasm, and heresy; and the blurring of religious identities, impacting such groups as conversos, Sabbateans, individual converts to Christianity, and Christian Hebraists. In describing an early modern Jewish culture, Early Modern Jewry reconstructs a distinct epoch in history and provides essential background for understanding the modern Jewish experience.
Europe -- Intellectual life. --- Jewish learning and scholarship -- Europe. --- Jews -- Europe -- History. --- Jews -- History -- 70-1789. --- Jews -- Intellectual life. --- Jews -- Social networks -- Europe -- History. --- Judaism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800. --- Judaism -- History Judaism -- Europe -- History Rabbis -- Biography. --- Rabbis -- Biography. --- Jews --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Judaism --- Rabbis --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Intellectual life --- History --- Social networks --- Doctrines --- Intellectual life. --- History. --- Europe --- Juifs --- Judaïsme --- Vie intellectuelle --- Histoire --- Learning and scholarship --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Religion --- Religions --- Semites --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Antinomianism. --- Apologetics. --- Apostasy. --- Ashkenazi Jews. --- Baruch Spinoza. --- Cecil Roth. --- Christian Hebraist. --- Christian culture. --- Christianity and Judaism. --- Christianity. --- Conversion to Judaism. --- Converso. --- Cosmopolitanism. --- Cultural history. --- Culture and Society. --- David Nieto. --- David Sorkin. --- Early modern Europe. --- Early modern period. --- Eastern Europe. --- Enthusiasm. --- Excommunication. --- Exegesis. --- Frankism. --- Gershom Scholem. --- Haskalah. --- Hebrew language. --- Heinrich Graetz. --- Heresy. --- Historiography. --- Ideology. --- Isaac Luria. --- Isaac Orobio de Castro. --- Isadore Twersky. --- Italian Jews. --- Italian Renaissance. --- Jacob Frank. --- Jacob Katz. --- Jewish Christian. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish mysticism. --- Jewish studies. --- Jews. --- Jonathan Israel. --- Judaism. --- Kabbalah. --- Land of Israel. --- Literature. --- Lithuania. --- Lurianic Kabbalah. --- Luzzatto. --- Medievalism. --- Menasseh Ben Israel. --- Mercantilism. --- Messiah in Judaism. --- Messianism. --- Minhag. --- Modernity. --- Moses. --- Moshe Idel. --- Narrative. --- Neoplatonism. --- New Christian. --- Notion (ancient city). --- Orthodoxy. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Periodization. --- Pharisees. --- Philosophy. --- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. --- Printing. --- Protestantism. --- Rabbi. --- Rabbinic Judaism. --- Reform Judaism. --- Religion. --- Responsa. --- Richard Popkin. --- Sabbateans. --- Safed. --- Schatz. --- Scholem. --- Secularization. --- Seminar. --- Sephardi Jews. --- Solomon ibn Verga. --- Spinozism. --- Spirituality. --- Syncretism. --- The Other Hand. --- Theology. --- Thirty Years' War. --- Uriel da Costa. --- Western Europe. --- Western culture. --- Writing. --- Yiddish.
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By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a result of the oppressive policies of Pope Paul IV and his successors.The sermons of Jewish preachers during this period provide a remarkable vantage point from which to view the early modern Jewish social and cultural landscape. In this eloquent collection, six leading scholars of Italian Jewish history reveal the important role of these preachers: men who served as a bridge between the ghetto and the Christian world outside, between old and new conventions, and between elite and popular modes of thought. The story of how they reflected and shaped the culture of their listeners, who felt the pressure of cramped urban life as well as of political, economic, and religious persecution, is finally beginning to be told. Through the words of the Italian ghetto preachers, we discover a richly textured panorama of Jewish life more than 400 years ago.
Jewish preaching --- Judaism --- Jewish sermons --- Rabbis --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- History --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Biography --- Moscato, Judah ben Joseph, --- Sermons, Jewish --- Jews --- Preaching, Jewish --- Jewish rabbis --- Moscato, Judah Aryeh, --- Mosḳaṭo, Yehudah ben Yosef, --- מוסקאט״ו, יהודה --- מוסקאטו, יהודה, --- מוסקאטו, יהודה בן יוסף, --- מוסק״אטו, יהודה בן יוסף --- Jewish religious literature --- Sermons --- Religions --- Semites --- Preaching --- Clergy --- Jewish scholars --- Functionaries
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"This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman explores the reasons for the book's huge popularity--it has been republished in forty editions in the last century--as well as its lasting influence on Jewish and kabbalistic thought, and its important place in Jewish society's confrontation with modernity"--
Judaism and science. --- Science. --- Science and Judaism --- Science --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Hurwitz, Phinehas Elijah,
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An examination of the life and work of Alexander McCaul and his impact on Jewish-Christian relationsIn Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis, David B. Ruderman considers the life and works of prominent evangelical missionary Alexander McCaul (1799-1863), who was sent to Warsaw by the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity Amongst the Jews. He and his family resided there for nearly a decade, which afforded him the opportunity to become a scholar of Hebrew and rabbinic texts. Returning to England, he quickly rose up through the ranks of missionaries to become a leading figure and educator in the organization and eventually a professor of post-biblical studies at Kings College, London. In 1837, McCaul published The Old Paths, a powerful critique of rabbinic Judaism that, once translated into Hebrew and other languages, provoked controversy among Jews and Christians alike.Ruderman first examines McCaul in his complexity as a Hebraist affectionately supportive of Jews while opposing the rabbis. He then focuses his attention on a larger network of his associates, both allies and foes, who interacted with him and his ideas: two converts who came under his influence but eventually broke from him; two evangelical colleagues who challenged his aggressive proselytizing among the Jews; and, lastly, three Jewish thinkers—two well-known scholars from Eastern Europe and a rabbi from Syria—who refuted his charges against the rabbis and constructed their own justifications for Judaism in the mid-nineteenth century.Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis reconstructs a broad transnational conversation between Christians, Jews, and those in between, opening a new vista for understanding Jewish and Christian thought and the entanglements between the two faith communities that persist in the modern era. Extending the geographical and chronological reach of his previous books, Ruderman continues his exploration of the impact of Jewish-Christian relations on Jewish self-reflection and the phenomenon of mingled identities in early modern and modern Europe.
Missions to Jews --- Judaism --- Christianity and other religions --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Jews --- Semites --- History --- Relations --- Religion --- Missions --- McCaul, Alexander, --- M'Caul, Alexander, --- M'Caul, A. --- מקול, אלקסנדר --- מק-קול, אלכסנדר, --- London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews. --- Agudah ha-Londonit le-ḳidum ha-Natsrut be-ḳarev ha-Yehudim --- L.J.S. (London Jews Society) --- LJS (London Jews Society) --- London Jews Society --- Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews (London, England) --- London Society (London Jews Society) --- לאנדאן געזעלשאפט צום פארשפרײטען קריסטענטום צװישען דיא יודען --- אגודה הלונדונית לקידום הנצרות בקרב היהודים --- Church's Ministry Among the Jews --- Alexander McCaul. --- Jewish-Christian relations. --- evangelcial missionary. --- nineteenth-century Europe.
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Esoteric sciences --- Jewish religion --- Jagel, Abraham ben Hananiah dei Galicchi
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"This book is about the English missionary Alexander McCaul, who wrote many works aiming to convert Jews to Christianity. The book is about people who are caught between belief practices: philo-Semitisim, philo-Chrstianity, anti-Semitism, and anti-Christianity"--
Missions to Jews --- Judaism --- Christianity and other religions --- Missions auprès des Juifs --- Judaïsme --- Christianisme --- History --- Relations --- Christianity --- History --- Judaism --- History --- Histoire --- Relations --- Christianisme --- Histoire --- Relations --- Judaïsme --- Histoire --- McCaul, Alexander, --- London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews.
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Judaism and science. --- Jews --- Jews --- Medicine --- Jewish scientists --- Jewish physicians --- Judaïsme et sciences --- Juifs --- Médecine --- Medicine --- History. --- Intellectual life. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- History. --- History. --- Vie intellectuelle --- Aspect religieux --- Judaïsme
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