Classic essays on Jews in early modern Europe

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Classic essays on Jews in early modern Europe

edited by Jonathan Karp and Francesca Trivellato

(Classic essays in Jewish history)

Routledge, 2023

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Some articles translated from French, German, Hebrew, or Italian

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Description

Designed for both students and seasoned scholars, this volume provides an innovative guide to the study of the Jewish past from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. It makes available seventeen contributions, published between 1904 and 1984, which are veritable landmarks in the scholarship on Jewish history in early modern Europe but have so far remained little accessible. Many are here translated into English for the first time, while all but one are not currently available in English online. The editors' introduction situates these classic essays in relation to the growing perception that the early modern period in Jewish history possesses its own distinctive features and identity. Accompanied by a rich bibliography, the volume highlights the many changes that the academic study of this vital phase of the Jewish past has undergone during the last hundred and twenty years.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction: Classic Essays in Jewish History - Kenneth Stow Volume Introduction: A Jewish 'Early Modern Period' Avant la Lettre? - Jonathan Karp and Francesca Trivellato Chapter 1: "European and Jewish History: Do Their Epochs Coincide?" - Cecil Roth Chapter 2: "Ghetto and Emancipation: Shall We Revise the Traditional View?" - Salo W. Baron Chapter 3: "Marriage and Sexual Life at the Close of the Middle Ages" - Jacob Katz Chapter 4: "The Woman of the Ghetto: Part I" - Selma Stern Chapter 5: "The Marranos" - I.S. Revah Chapter 6: "The Shebet Yehudah and Sixteenth Century Historiography" - Abraham A. Neuman Chapter 7: "The Amazing Abraham Colorni" - Cecil Roth Chapter 8: "Baptisms of the Jews of Rome from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries" - Attilio Milano Chapter 9: "Why Was Spinoza Banned?" - Jacob L. Teicher Chapter 10: "Poland's Council of the Four Lands and its Relations with Local Jewish Community Governments" - Simon Dubnow Chapter 11: "'De Non Tolerandis Judaeis': On the Introduction of the Anti-Jewish Laws into Polish Towns and the Struggle Against Them" - Jacob Goldberg Chapter 12: "The Court Jews: Prelude to Emancipation" - Francis L. Carsten Chapter 13: "The Emergence of General Education among German Jews before Mendelssohn" - Joseph Eschelbacher Chapter 14: "German Pietism and the Jews" - Koppel S. Pinson Chapter 15: "The Attitude of the Enlightenment Toward the Jew" - Paul H. Meyer Chapter 16: "The Economic Activities of the Jews" - Shmuel Ettinger Chapter 17: "Modern Capitalism and Jewish Fate" - Salo W. Baron Index

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