Early Modern Jewish Civilization

Auteur

David Graizbord, a historian, is Curson Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. His publications include Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700 (2004), and The New Zionists: Young American Jews, Jewish National Identity, and Israel (2020).

Texte du rabat

This collection is an introductory historical survey and selective cultural analysis of the development, coalescence, and eventual waning of a diasporic civilization-that of the Jews of the early modern period (ca. 1391-1789) in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and key nodes of the Iberian Empires in the Americas.

Contenu

1. Introduction: Continuities and Discontinuities in The Formation of a Transoceanic Diaspora, 1391-1789 2. Who were the Jews of the Pre-Modern Diaspora? 3. ayei ha-Torah (The Life of Torah): Rabbinic Culture and The Pre-Modern Heritage Preserved and Adapted 4. Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel): The Homeland, its Jews, and their Orienting Influence 5. 'Umot ha-'Olam (The Nations of the Earth): Relations with The Other(s) - Part 1: Iberian Watersheds: The Crisis of judeoconversos and The Evolution of Anti-Jewish Bigotry; Iberian judeoconversos and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Polemical Tracts - Part 2: Jews and Their Non-Jewish Hosts in an Evolving Diaspora 6. Kol Yisrael 'Arevim Zeh la-Zeh (All Israel are Mutually Responsible): Self-Government, Economy, and the Rise of New Diasporic Centers - The Jews of the Italian Peninsula; The Rise of New Diasporic Centers 7. Tsena u-Re'ena (Go Out and See): The World of Jewish Books 8. *abalah (Tradition): Early Modern Jewish Mysticism as a Devotional Matrix of Jewish Life 9. *Minhagim: A Window on Popular Culture 10. 'Erev Rav (A Mixed Multitude): Class, Gender, and Ideological Cleavages 11. asidut and Haskalah (Pietism and Enlightenment): Toward the Watershed of Modernity