Ruderman Early Modern Jewry

A New Cultural History
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3469-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruderman, David B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Maps x

Introduction 1

Chapter One?: Jews on the Move 23

The Mobility of Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Period 24

Jewish Migration to Italy and the Ottoman Empire 26

Jewish Migration to Eastern Europe 29

Converso Migration 34

The Social Consequences of Jewish Mobility 37

Did Jewish Mobility Engender Cultural Productivity? 41

Chapter Two: Comm unal Cohesion 57

Italian Communal Developments 59

Converso Communal Organizations: Leghorn and Amsterdam 65

Jewish Communal Organization in Germanic Lands 74

The Jewish Community under Ottoman Rule 81

Jewish Self-Government in Eastern Europe 86

Some Comparative Observations 93

Chapter Three?: Knowledge Explosion 99

The Printed Book and the Creation of a Connected Jewish Culture 99

Further Consequences of the Printing of Jewish Books 103

Christian Hebraists and Their Judaic Publications 111

The Expansion of Cultural Horizons 120

Jewish Medical Students at the University 125

Chapter Four: Crisis of Rabbinic Authority 133

Locating the Beginnings of a Jewish Crisis in the Seventeenth Century 136

The Sabbatean Turmoil of the Eighteenth Century 140

Sabbateanism and the Birth of "Orthodoxy" in the Eighteenth Century 146

Sabbateanism and the Other Crises of Early Modernity: Some Tentative Conclusions 155

Chapter Five?: Mingled Identities 159

The Ambiguity of Converso Lives 160

Sabbatean Syncretism 163

The Conflicting Loyalties of Christian Hebraists 173

The Mediating Roles of Jewish Converts to Christianity 180

Jewish Christians and Christian Jews 186

Chapter Six: Toward Modernity: Some Final Thoughts 191

When Does the Early Modern Period Begin and When Does It End? 193

Early Haskalah, Early Modernity, and Haskalah Reconsidered 198

Viewing the Modern Era in the Light of the Early Modern 202

Appendix: H istoriographical Re flec tions 207

Jonathan Israel's Interpretation of Early

Modern Jewish Culture 207

Jewish Historians on the Early Modern Period 214

Early Modernity in European and World Historiography 220

Acknowledgments 227

Notes 231

Bibliography of Secondary Works 287

Index 319

Über Autor(innen)

David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key and Connecting the Covenants.