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Author : Glueckel (of Hameln)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684580064
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Glikl written by Glueckel (of Hameln) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glueckel (of Hameln)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684580057
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Glikl written by Glueckel (of Hameln) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this reason I have set this down for you here in brief, so that you might know what kind of people you come from." These words from the memoirs Glikl bas Leib wrote in Yiddish between 1691 and 1719 shed light on the life of a devout and worldly woman. Writing initially to seek solace in the long nights of her widowhood, Glikl continued to record the joys and tribulations of her family and community in an account unique for its impressive literary talents and strong invocation of self. Through intensely personal recollections, Glikl weaves stories and traditional tales that express her thoughts and beliefs. While influenced by popular Yiddish moral literature, Glikl's frequent use of first person and the significance she assigns her own life experience set the work apart. Informed by fidelity to the original Yiddish text, this authoritative new translation is fully annotated to explicate Glikl's life and times, offering readers a rich context for appreciating this classic work.
Author : Glueckel (of Hameln)
Publisher : Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry
ISBN 13 : 9781684580040
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Glikl written by Glueckel (of Hameln) and published by Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this reason I have set this down for you here in brief, so that you might know what kind of people you come from." These words from the memoirs Glikl bas Leib wrote in Yiddish between 1691 and 1719 shed light on the life of a devout and worldly woman. Writing initially to seek solace in the long nights of her widowhood, Glikl continued to record the joys and tribulations of her family and community in an account unique for its impressive literary talents and strong invocation of self. Through intensely personal recollections, Glikl weaves stories and traditional tales that express her thoughts and beliefs. While influenced by popular Yiddish moral literature, Glikl's frequent use of first person and the significance she assigns her own life experience set the work apart. Informed by fidelity to the original Yiddish text, this authoritative new translation is fully annotated to explicate Glikl's life and times, offering readers a rich context for appreciating this classic work.
Author : Gluckel
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307806383
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln written by Gluckel and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade, ran her own factory, and promoted the welfare of her large family. Her memoir, a rare account of an ordinary woman, enlightens not just her children, for whom she wrote it, but all posterity about her life and community. Gluckel speaks to us with determination and humor from the seventeenth century. She tells of war, plague, pirates, soldiers, the hysteria of the false messiah Sabbtai Zevi, murder, bankruptcy, wedding feasts, births, deaths, in fact, of all the human events that befell her during her lifetime. She writes in a matter of fact way of the frightening and precarious situation under which the Jews of northern Germany lived. Accepting this situation as given, she boldly and fearlessly promotes her business, her family and her faith. This memoir is a document in the history of women and of life in the seventeenth century.
Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674955202
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Women on the Margins written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname.
Author : Gl of Hameln
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827609140
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)
Download or read book The Life of Glückel of Hameln, 1646–1724 written by Gl of Hameln and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir that began as a 17th century German-Jewish widow's way to tell her life story to her 12 children offers more than just a look into her day-to-day life; it also offers a unique view of the Jewish community in Germany during the 1600s.
Author : Michael Stanislawski
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803797
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Autobiographical Jews written by Michael Stanislawski and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical Jews examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity to the present, and the ways in which such writings can legitimately be used as sources for Jewish history. Drawing on current literary theory, which questions the very nature of autobiographical writing and its relationship to what we normally designate as the truth, and, to a lesser extent, the new cognitive neurosciences, Michael Stanislawski analyzes a number of crucial and complex autobiographical texts written by Jews through the ages. Stanislawski considers The Life by first-century historian Josephus; compares the early modern autobiographies of Asher of Reichshofen (Book of Memories) and Glikl of Hameln (Memoirs); analyzes the radically different autobiographies of two Russian Jewish writers, the Hebrew Enlightenment author Moshe Leib Lilienblum and the famous Russian poet Osip Mandelstam; and looks at two autobiographies written out of utter despair in the midst and in the wake of World War II, Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday and Sarah Kofman’s Rue Ordener, Rue Labat. These writers’ attempts to portray their private and public struggles, anxieties, successes, and failures are expressions of a basic drive for selfhood which is both timeless and time-bound, universal and culturally specific. The challenge is to attempt to unravel the conscious from the unconscious distortions in these texts and to regard them as artifacts of individuals’ quests to make sense of their lives, first and foremost for themselves and then, if possible, for their readers.
Author : Bluma Goldstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520933419
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Enforced Marginality written by Bluma Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating study explores a central but neglected aspect of modern Jewish history: the problem of abandoned Jewish wives, or agunes ("chained wives")—women who under Jewish law could not obtain a divorce—and of the men who deserted them. Looking at seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany and then late nineteenth-century eastern Europe and twentieth-century United States, Enforced Marginality explores representations of abandoned wives while tracing the demographic movements of Jews in the West. Bluma Goldstein analyzes a range of texts (in Old Yiddish, German, Yiddish, and English) at the intersection of disciplines (history, literature, sociology, and gender studies) to describe the dynamics of power between men and women within traditional communities and to elucidate the full spectrum of experiences abandoned women faced.
Author : Iris Idelson-Shein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812209702
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Difference of a Different Kind written by Iris Idelson-Shein and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Jews, argues Iris Idelson-Shein, occupied a particular place in the development of modern racial discourse during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Simultaneously inhabitants and outsiders in Europe, considered both foreign and familiar, Jews adopted a complex perspective on otherness and race. Often themselves the objects of anthropological scrutiny, they internalized, adapted, and revised the emerging discourse of racial difference to meet their own ends. Difference of a Different Kind explores Jewish perceptions and representations of otherness during the formative period in the history of racial thought. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including philosophical and scientific works, halakhic literature, and folktales, Idelson-Shein unfolds the myriad ways in which eighteenth-century Jews imagined the "exotic Other" and how the evolving discourse of racial difference played into the construction of their own identities. Difference of a Different Kind offers an invaluable view into the ways new religious, cultural, and racial identities were imagined and formed at the outset of modernity.
Author : Robert Liberles
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611682479
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Jews Welcome Coffee written by Robert Liberles and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively look at how coffee affected Jewish life in early modern Germany
Author : Cengiz Sisman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019069856X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Burden of Silence written by Cengiz Sisman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first comprehensive social, intellectual and religious history of the wide-spread Sabbatean movement from its birth in the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century to the Republic of Turkey in the first half of the twentieth century, claiming that they owed their survival to the internalization of the Kabbalistic "burden of silence"--
Author : Lawrence Fine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227985
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Judaism in Practice written by Lawrence Fine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals, legal codes, mystical books, autobiographical writings, folk literature, and liturgical poetry, it testifies to the enormous variety of practices that characterized Judaism in the twelve hundred years between 600 and 1800 C.E. Its focus on religious practice and experience--how Judaism was actually lived by people from day to day--makes this anthology unique among the few sourcebooks available. The volume encompasses the broad scope and complex texture of Jewish religious practice, taking into account many aspects of Jewish culture that have hitherto been relatively neglected: the religious life of ordinary people, the role and status of women, art and aesthetics, and marginalized as well as remote Jewish communities. It introduces such remarkable personalities as Moses Maimonides, Leon Modena, and Gluckel of Hameln, and presents extraordinary texts on festival practice, Torah study, mystical communities, meditation, exorcism, the practice of charity, and folk rites marking birth and death. Representing state-of-the-art scholarship by distinguished academics from around the world, the volume includes many materials never before translated into English. Each text is preceded by an accessible introduction, making this book suitable for college and university students as well as a general audience. Whether read as a deliberate course of study or dipped into selectively for a glimpse into fascinating Jewish lives and places, Judaism in Practice holds rich rewards for any reader.
Author : Joachim Neugroschel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393326178
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)
Download or read book No Star Too Beautiful written by Joachim Neugroschel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and rich anthology of Yiddish stories ranges from the beginning of Yiddish literature through I.B. Singer.
Author : Joshua Teplitsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300234902
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Prince of the Press written by Joshua Teplitsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Oppenheim (1664-1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and manuscripts, all of which have survived and are housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. His remarkable collection testifies to the myriad connections Jews maintained with each other across political borders, and the contacts between Christians and Jews that books facilitated. From contact with the great courts of European nobility to the poor of Jerusalem, his family ties brought him into networks of power, prestige, and opportunity that extended across Europe and the Mediterranean basin. Containing works of law and literature alongside prayer and poetry, his library served rabbinic scholars and communal leaders, introduced old books to new readers, and functioned as a unique source of personal authority that gained him fame throughout Jewish society and beyond. The story of his life and library brings together culture, commerce, and politics, all filtered through this extraordinary collection. Based on the careful reconstruction of an archive that is still visited by scholars today, Joshua Teplitsky's book offers a window into the social life of Jewish books in early modern Europe.--Publisher's website.
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Publisher : Eerdmans Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0802853056
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book I Am Marc Chagall written by and published by Eerdmans Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the Russian artist from his point of view, detailing his struggle to find acceptance for his work and his why he chose the themes he did for his art.
Author : Margaret Lael Mikesell
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138252
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Culture and Change written by Margaret Lael Mikesell and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These issues of city-building and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell explores the ways in which technical values - a distinctive civic culture of expertise - helped to reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City."--Jacket.
Author : Jeremy Cohen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800345410
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Rethinking European Jewish History written by Jeremy Cohen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major cultural, ideological, and social changes that have occurred in Europe in the past century have generated widespread reassessment of European history in terms of its presuppositions, its methodologies, its directions, its emphases, and its scope. This timely volume looks at the Jewish past in the spirit of this reassessment. It points to a new framework for the study of Jewish history and helps to contextualize it within the mainstream of historical scholarship.
