Cultures of the Jews, Volume 2
Edited by David Biale
Edited by David Biale
Category: World History | Religion
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$19.95
Jan 10, 2006 | ISBN 9780805212013
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Praise
“Lay readers already hooked on Jewish history will be endlessly fascinated, and those seeking a solid state-of-the art introduction to the field will find it here, with ample reference to other, more specialized or canonical works. . . One of the most nourishing Jewish books we’ve encountered in some time. . . . Wonderful.” —The Jerusalem Report
“The writers revel in the new vistas opened by a cultural approach, lavishly providing us, in generous detail, with descriptions of a Jewish world more various than historians have allowed us to glimpse.” —Tikkun
“Biale has gathered a stellar international group of scholars around the grand theme of Jewish cultural history. The tastes of many different intellectual palates will find various satisfactions here.” —Jewish Quarterly Review
Table Of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface: Toward a Cultural History of the Jews
by David Biale
Introduction
by David Biale
ONE:
Merchants and Intellectuals, Rabbis and Poets: Judeo-Arabic Culture in the Golden Age of Islam
by Raymond P. Scheindlin
TWO:
A Letter to a Wayward Teacher: The Transformations of Sephardic Culture in Christian Iberia
by Benjamin R. Gampel
THREE:
A Jewish-Christian Symbiosis: The Culture of Early Ashkenaz
by Ivan G.Marcus
FOUR:
Innovative Tradition: Jewish Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth
by Moshe Rosman
FIVE:
Families and Their Fortunes: The Jews of Early Modern Italy
by Elliott Horowitz
SIX:
Bom Judesmo: The Western Sephardic Diaspora
by Yosef Kaplan
SEVEN:
Childbirth and Magic: Jewish Folklore and Material Culture
by Shalom Sabar
Conclusion
by David Biale • 421
Index
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