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Author : Israel Abrahams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jewish Life in the Middle Ages written by Israel Abrahams and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Israel Abrahams
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827605420
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Jewish Life in the Middle Ages written by Israel Abrahams and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 1993 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work of scholarship illustrates the richness, complexity, and fullness of medieval Jewish life. Readers will discover how much was hidden from the inquisitive and often hostile gaze of Christian Europe. Israel Abrahams vividly details the customs, manners, and mores, and delves into the social culture of Jewish life at this time.
Author : Thérèse Metzger
Publisher : New York : Alpine Fine Arts Collection
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jewish Life in the Middle Ages written by Thérèse Metzger and published by New York : Alpine Fine Arts Collection. This book was released on 1982 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miniatures which enhance medieval Hebrew manuscripts, whether in prayerbooks, ceremonials for feast days, ritual, legal or philosophical treatises, clearly reflect various aspects of Jewish life during the period. In addition to religious and ceremonial practices, the many facets of everyday life in the family, in cities and in the countryside are treated, as are social and economic activities at all levels and in all professions. Drawing upon the surviving miniatures in illuminated Hebrew manuscripts as primary source material, Thérèse and Mendel Metzger have reconstructed a detailed and exhaustive account of Jewish life in Europe during the Middle Ages. The volume is divided into five sections which encompass historic and geographic background, everyday surroundings, family life and education, social and economic life, and religious activity.--From publisher description.
Author : Robert Chazan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493043
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe written by Robert Chazan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-evaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, governmental exploitation and expropriation, and unceasing popular violence. Robert Chazan argues that, while Jewish life in medieval Western Christendom was indeed beset with grave difficulties, it was nevertheless an environment rich in opportunities; the Jews of medieval Europe overcame obstacles, grew in number, explored innovative economic options, and fashioned enduring new forms of Jewish living. His research also provides a reconsideration of the legacy of medieval Jewish life, which is often depicted as equally destructive and projected as the underpinning of the twentieth-century catastrophes of antisemitism and the Holocaust. Dr Chazan's research proves that, although Jewish life in the medieval West laid the foundation for much Jewish suffering in the post-medieval world, it also stimulated considerable Jewish ingenuity, which lies at the root of impressive Jewish successes in the modern West.
Author : Israel Abrahams
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781974039623
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Jewish Life in the Middle Ages Israel Abrahams written by Israel Abrahams and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE expression ' middle ages' is often employed in a very elastic sense, but as applied to the inner life of the Jews it has little or no relevancy. There was neither more nor less medievalism about Jewish life in the ninth than there was in the fourteenth century. If medievalism implies moral servitude to a Church and material servitude to a polity, - a polity known in one form as Imperialism and in another as feudalism, - the Jews bad no opportunity for the latter and no inclination for the former. The Synagogue was the centre of life, but it was not the custodian of thought. If Judaism ever came to exercise a tyranny over the Jewish mind, it did so not in the middle ages at all, but in the middle of the sixteenth century. A revolt against medievalism such as occurred in Europe during and at the close of the Renaissance may be said to have marked Jewish life towards the close of the eighteenth century.
Author : Robert Chazan
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780874413021
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Church, State, and Jew in the Middle Ages written by Robert Chazan and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 1980 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of medieval European documents of the Church and state, including theological positions on the Jews; papal decrees and local and national charters granting rights to Jews; documents relating to protection of Jews; ecclesiastic limitations on Jews, relating particularly to usury and attacks on the Talmud; missionizing (e.g. forced sermons and disputations); and persecution by the state (e.g. confiscation of properties, bodily attacks, and expulsions).
Author : Kenneth Stow
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674044050
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Alienated Minority written by Kenneth Stow and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the overall culture and society of medieval Europe. It presents a new picture of the interaction between Christians and Jews in this tumultuous era. Alienated Minority shows us what it meant to be a Jew in Europe in the Middle Ages. The story begins in the fifth century, when autonomous Jewish rule in Palestine came to a close, and when the papacy, led by Gregory the Great, established enduring principles regarding Christian policy toward Jews. Kenneth Stow examines the structures of self-government in the European Jewish community and the centrality of emerging concepts of representation. He studies economic enterprise, especially banking; constructs a clear image of the medieval Jewish family; and portrays in detail the very rich Jewish intellectual life. Analyzing policies of Church and State in the Middle Ages, Stow argues that a firmly defined legal and constitutional position of the Jewish minority in the earlier period gave way to a legal status created expressly for Jews, who in the later period were seen as inimical to the common good. It was this special status that paved the way for the royal expulsions of Jews that began at the end of the thirteenth century.
Author : James Parkes
Publisher : London : Soncino Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Jew in the Medieval Community written by James Parkes and published by London : Soncino Press. This book was released on 1938 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisheva Baumgarten
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691130299
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Mothers and Children written by Elisheva Baumgarten and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. Elisheva Baumgarten draws on a rich trove of primary sources to give a full portrait of medieval Jewish family life during the period of childhood from birth to the beginning of formal education at age seven. Illustrating the importance of understanding Jewish practice in the context of Christian society and recognizing the shared foundations in both societies, Baumgarten's examination of Jewish and Christian practices and attitudes is explicitly comparative. Her analysis is also wideranging, covering nearly every aspect of home life and childrearing, including pregnancy, midwifery, birth and initiation rituals, nursing, sterility, infanticide, remarriage, attitudes toward mothers and fathers, gender hierarchies, divorce, widowhood, early education, and the place of children in the home, synagogue, and community. A richly detailed and deeply researched contribution to our understanding of the relationship between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors, Mothers and Children provides a key analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz.
Author : Israel Abrahams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Jewish Life in the Middle Ages written by Israel Abrahams and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob R. Marcus
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN 13 : 0878201769
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (782 download)
Download or read book The Jew in the Medieval World written by Jacob R. Marcus and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To gain an accurate view of medieval Judaism, one must look through the eyes of Jews and their contemporaries. First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which let the actors and witnesses of events speak for themselves. The medieval epoch in Jewish history begins around the year 315, when the emperor Constantine began enacting disabling laws against the Jews, rendering them second-class citizens. In the centuries following, Jews enjoyed (or suffered under) legislation, either chosen or forced by the state, which differed from the laws for the Christian and Muslim masses. Most states saw the Jews as simply a tolerated group, even when given favorable privileges. The masses often disliked them. Medieval Jewish history presents a picture wherein large patches are characterized by political and social disabilities. Marcus closes the medieval Jewish age (for Western Jewry) in 1791 with the proclamation of political and civil emancipation in France. The 137 sources included in the anthology include historical narratives, codes, legal opinions, martyrologies, memoirs, polemics, epitaphs, advertisements, folk-tales, ethical and pedagogical writings, book prefaces and colophons, commentaries, and communal statutes. These documents are organized in three sections: The first treats the relation of the State to the Jew and reflects the civil and political status of the Jew in the medieval setting. The second deals with the profound influence exerted by the Catholic and Protestant churches on Jewish life and well-being. The final section presents a study of the Jew "at home," with four sub-divisions with treat the life of the medieval Jew in its various aspects. Marcus presents the texts themselves, introductions, and lucid notes. Marc Saperstein offers a new introduction and updated bibliography.
Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Jew in the Medieval World written by Jacob Rader Marcus and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elkan Nathan Adler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048625397X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages written by Elkan Nathan Adler and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in human experience and historic detail, these fascinating accounts portray the activities of Jewish scholars, merchants, pilgrims, ambassadors, and other wanderers. Nineteen engaging narratives, some of them 12 centuries old, offer rare perspectives on the unfolding drama of life in medieval Europe, the Near East, and Africa.
Author : ISRAEL. ABRAHAMS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033345153
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (451 download)
Download or read book JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES written by ISRAEL. ABRAHAMS and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Chazan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108340199
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 6, The Middle Ages: The Christian World written by Robert Chazan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 6 examines the history of Judaism during the second half of the Middle Ages. Through the first half of the Middle Ages, the Jewish communities of western Christendom lagged well behind those of eastern Christendom and the even more impressive Jewries of the Islamic world. As Western Christendom began its remarkable surge forward in the eleventh century, this progress had an impact on the Jewish minority as well. The older Jewries of southern Europe grew and became more productive in every sense. Even more strikingly, a new set of Jewries were created across northern Europe, when this undeveloped area was strengthened demographically, economically, militarily, and culturally. From the smallest and weakest of the world's Jewish centers in the year 1000, the Jewish communities of western Christendom emerged - despite considerable obstacles - as the world's dominant Jewish center by the end of the Middle Ages. This demographic, economic, cultural, and spiritual dominance was maintained down into modernity.
Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438421699
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Aspects of Jewish Culture in the Middle Ages written by Paul E. Szarmach and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the papers and discussions of the eighth annual conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton. The topics discussed were the relationship between Jewish and medieval studies, the patristic basis for Christian attitudes on the Jews, the Hispanic literary tradition, Jewish Spain, problems in Jewish art, and myth criticism and medieval studies.
Author : Ivan G. Marcus
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030015674X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Rituals of Childhood written by Ivan G. Marcus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval times, when a Jewish boy of five began religious schooling, he was carried from home to a teacher and placed on the teacher's lap. He was then asked to recite the Hebrew alphabet and lick honey from the slate on which it was written, to eat magically inscribed cooked peeled eggs and cakes, to recite an incantation against a demon of forgetfulness, and then to go down to the riverbank with the teacher, where he was told that his future study of the Torah, like the rushing river, would never end. This book--Ivan Marcus's erudite and novel interpretation of this rite of passage--presents a new anthropological historical approach to Jewish culture and acculturation in medieval Christian Europe. Marcus traces ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman elements in the rite and then analyzes it from different perspectives, making use of narrative, legal, poetic, ethnographic, and pictorial sources, as well as firsthand accounts. He then describes contemporary medieval Christian images and initiation rites--including the eucharist and the Madonna and child--as contexts within which to understand the ceremony. He is the first to investigate how medieval Jews were aware of, drew upon, and polemically transformed Christian religious symbols into Jewish counterimages in order to affirm the truth of Judaism and to make sense of living as Jews in an intensely Christian culture.
