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Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism
German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann
Inbunden, 2008
3860 kr
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As Adolf Hitler strategised his way to power, he knew that it was necessary to gain the support of theology and the Church. This study begins two hundred years earlier, however, looking at roots of theological anti-Semitism and how Jews and Judaism were constructed, positively and negatively, in …
Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews
Contexts, Sources and Perspectives
Inbunden, 2004
2324 kr
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In comparison to the Iberian Inquisitions little research has been done on the attitude of the Roman and Universal Inquisition to the Jews. The present volume deals with the relations between the Catholic Church, Jews and Judaism and the potential of the now accessible sources in the archive of the …
Historical Writings of Joseph of Rosheim
Leader of Jewry in Early Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2006
4717 kr
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Joseph of Rosheim, sixteenth-century leader of the Jews in the Holy Roman Empire, left historical writings that are presented here in a critical edition published now for the first time in English translation. The principal part of the book is devoted to a Hebrew manuscript--a chronicle--left by R. …
Mediene Remnants
Yiddish Sources in the Netherlands Outside of Amsterdam
Inbunden, 2009
2186 kr
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This inventory provides a survey of the extant Yiddish sources in Dutch archives and collections outside of Amsterdam. Until now, an overview and quantitative summary of the available Yiddish sources in The Netherlands was lacking. The compilation represents only a modest beginning, for the amount …
La République des Lettres
Rabbins, écrivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siècle
Av Asher Salah
Inbunden, 2007
6451 kr
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This volume is a reference book on more than a thousand Jewish writers—rabbis, physicians and laymen—active in 18th-century Italy.Each author has a biographical notice, followed by a list of his printed works and manuscripts, their location in the major international judaica collections and a …
Jewish Body
Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period
Av Maria Diemling, Giuseppe Veltri
Inbunden, 2008
3420 kr
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The tension between the "book" and the "body" has in recent years attracted the attention of scholars interested in the perception of the body in Judaism and the impact of religious law and performance on the body. The fifteen contributions in this volume deal with perceptions of the "Jewish body" …
Juvenile Sexuality, Kabbalah, and Catholic Reformation in Italy
Tiferet Bahurim by Pinhas Barukh ben Pelatiyah Monselice
Inbunden, 2009
3178 kr
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This book provides the first publication of the tract Tiferet Bahurim (The Glory of Youth) which was written in the mid-seventeenth century by R. Pinhas Barukh ben Pelatiyah Monselic in Ferrara, Italy. The tract was written as a guide for young men about to marry regarding their family life and …
Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer Ḥakhmoni
Introduction, Critical Text, and Annotated English Translation
Inbunden, 2010
3274 kr
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Sefer Hakhmoni by the 10th-century Jewish polymath Shabbatai Donnolo is one of the first texts written in Hebrew in medieval Europe and one of the most important documents of the “Hebrew Renaissance” of Byzantine Jewry in southern Italy between the 9th and the 11th centuries. Written as a …
Pinkas, Kahal, and the Mediene
The Records of Dutch Ashkenazi Communities in the Eighteenth Century as Historical Sources
Av Stefan Litt
Inbunden, 2008
3141 kr
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Scholars of the rich history of the Jews in the Dutch Republic have tended to concentrate on the remarkable story of Amsterdam. In fact, numerous communities existed in other parts of the country, of which records survive from some, occasionally extending back to the late eighteenth century. This …
Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry
A Message Upon the Garden
Av Alessandro Guetta, Masha Itzhaki
Inbunden, 2008
3414 kr
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From Iraq to Spain, from Germany to Cataluña, from Italy to Yemen, poetry has been for centuries a privileged mode of expression in the Jewish world. Sometimes borrowing from the poetry of the land in which they lived, but always reinventing it in relationship to the Hebrew language and to the …
Renaissance and Rebirth
Reincarnation in Early Modern Italian Kabbalah
Av Brian Ogren
Inbunden, 2009
2648 kr
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Metempsychosis was a prominent element in Renaissance conceptualizations of the human being, the universe, and the place of the human person in the universe. A variety of concepts emerged in debates about metempsychosis: human to human reincarnation, human to vegetal, human to animal, and human to …
Judah Moscato Sermons
Edition and Translation, Volume One
Av Gianfranco Miletto, Giuseppe Veltri
Inbunden, 2010
4632 kr
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Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. The book Sefer Nefuṣot Yehudah belongs to the very centre of his important homiletic and philosophical oeuvre. Composed in Mantua and published in Venice in …
"Genizat Germania" - Hebrew and Aramaic Binding Fragments from Germany in Context
European Genizah Texts and Studies, Volume 1
Inbunden, 2010
2999 kr
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“Genizat Germania” is a project at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz focused on the search for and analysis of Hebrew and Aramaic binding fragments found in the books and files of archives and libraries. In recent years this systematic search has revealed several hundred new fragments, …
Studies on Steinschneider
Moritz Steinschneider and the Emergence of the Science of Judaism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Av Reimund Leicht, Gad Freudenthal
Inbunden, 2011
4405 kr
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The present volume of studies on the life and work of Moritz (Moshe) Steinschneider (1816-1907) seeks to modify the traditional view of Steinschneider as a “mere bibliographer” by revealing other dimensions of his scientific personality. Together, the articles show that Steinschneider’s manifold …
Studies in the History of Culture and Science
A Tribute to Gad Freudenthal
Av Resianne Fontaine, Ruth Glasner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
3688 kr
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An hommage to Gad Freudenthal, this volume offers twenty-two chapters on the history of science and the role of science in Jewish cultures. Written by outstanding scholars from all over the world it is a token of appreciation for Freudenthal's accomplishments in this discipline.The chapters in this …
Creating Fictional Worlds
Peshaṭ-Exegesis and Narrativity in Rashbam's Commentary on the Torah
Av Hanna Liss
Inbunden, 2011
2782 kr
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R. Samuel ben Meir (b. 1085) wrote his Torah commentary at a point in time when the French masters of Bible collected their glossae, but he wrote it also at the point in time that we today consider to be the turning point in ‘lay literacy,’ when the Anglo-Norman aristocracy patronized the …
Marrakesh Dialogues
A Gospel Critique and Jewish Apology from the Spanish Renaissance
Inbunden, 2014
3965 kr
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In sixteenth-century Marrakesh, a Flemish merchant converts to Judaism and takes his Catholic brother on a subversive reading of the Gospels and an exploration of the Jewish faith. Their vivid Spanish dialogue, composed by an anonym in 1583, has until now escaped scholarly attention in spite of its …
Arthur Ruppin and the Production of Pre-Israeli Culture
Av Etan Bloom
Inbunden, 2011
3378 kr
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Arthur Ruppin’s immense contribution to the Zionist movement gave him the title “The Father of Jewish/Zionist settlement in Palestine.” Nevertheless, the common narrative sets Ruppin’s historical persona in an ambivalent position and suppresses his formative role and heritage. Part of the reason …
Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition
Lectures and Essays by Aryeh Leo Motzkin
Inbunden, 2011
2051 kr
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Aryeh Motzkin was an extraordinary thinker and writer. Much of his work appeared in small academic journals despite the fact that it is often quite accessible, even to non-experts. This volume assembles his most important published papers along with several unpublished papers. They all have a …
Judah Moscato Sermons
Edition and Translation, Volume Two
Av Gianfranco Miletto, Giuseppe Veltri
Inbunden, 2011
4205 kr
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Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. The book Sefer Nefuṣot Yehudah belongs to the very centre of his important homiletic and philosophical oeuvre. Composed in Mantua and published in Venice in …
Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries
Av Giuseppe Veltri, Gianfranco Miletto
Inbunden, 2012
2731 kr
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Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference, organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies at Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), and …
Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies
Volume One: Studies
Inbunden, 2013
3788 kr
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This two-volume work, Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies sheds new light on an under-investigated phenomenon of European medieval intellectual history: the transmission of knowledge and texts from Latin into Hebrew between the twelfth and the fifteenth century. Because medieval Jewish philosophy …
Producing Redemption in Amsterdam
Early Modern Yiddish Books in Paratextual Perspective
Inbunden, 2013
2445 kr
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Yiddish was the basic Ashkenazi vernacular in the early modern period. The vast majority of the population was not educated and Yiddish books were printed in order to assist them with keeping a solid Jewish life. Being a basically German language and never being a canonical language as Hebrew, …
Jiddische Handschriften der Niederlande
Av Evi Michels
Inbunden, 2013
2217 kr
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Jiddische Handschriften der Niederlande includes descriptions of 105 Yiddish manuscripts originating mostly in the 18th and 19th century. They reflect Ashkenazic culture of the Northern Netherlands, the Yiddish dialect of this area and the influences of Dutch and German in that culture. After 1815 …
Joseph Seniri: Commentary on the Former Prophets
A Critical Edition of the Hebrew Text with Introductory Essays on Grammatical Exegesis in Thirteenth-Century Provence
Av Judith Kogel
Inbunden, 2013
2948 kr
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This book presents the critical edition of Joseph Seniri’s commentary on the Former Prophets. Son of the famous poet Isaac Ha-Seniri, Joseph Seniri lived in Beaucaire at the turn of the thirteenth century. His work, which follows the Provençal tradition of Jewish exegesis combining the teachings of …
Books within Books
New Discoveries in Old Book Bindings. European Genizah Texts and Studies Volume 2
Av Andreas Lehnardt, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Inbunden, 2013
2884 kr
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Books within Books presents some recent findings and research projects on the fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts discovered in the bindings of other manuscripts and early printed books across Europe. This is the second collection of interdisciplinary articles on Hebrew binding fragments …
Judah Moscato Sermons
Edition and Translation, Volume Three
Av Gianfranco Miletto, Giuseppe Veltri
Inbunden, 2013
3981 kr
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Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. The book Sefer Nefuṣot Yehudah belongs to the very centre of his important homiletic and philosophical oeuvre. Composed in Mantua and published in Venice in …
Stones Speak - Hebrew Tombstones from Padua, 1529-1862
Inbunden, 2013
3065 kr
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From Renaissance to Risorgimento, the Hebrew tombstones of Padua express the cultural currents of their age, in text and art. The inscriptions are mainly rhymed and metered poems, about life, love and faith, while the design and ornamentation of the actual stones reflect prevailing architectural …
Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths
Av Nadia Vidro
Inbunden, 2014
2349 kr
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A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths reflects on medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistics as a discipline that crossed geographic and religious borders and linked up with a plethora of scholarly activities, from Judaeo-Arabic Bible translations to the Renaissance search …
Three Early Modern Hebrew Scholars on the Mysteries of Song
Inbunden, 2014
2974 kr
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In discoursing on music, three early modern Jewish scholars stand out for their originality. The first is Judah Moscato, who, as chief rabbi in Mantua, preached sermons, one of them on music: there Moscato presents music as a cosmic and spiritual phenomenon. The second scholar is Leon Modena, the …
