Bibliographica Judaica
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 240
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Amsterdam's People of the Book
Author: Benjamin E. Fisher
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Published: 2020-03-30
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0878201890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centered on the Bible. School children studied the Bible systematically, while rabbinic literature was pushed to levels reached by few students; adults met in confraternities to study Scripture; and families listened to Scripture-based sermons in synagogue, and to help pass the long, cold winter nights of northwest Europe. The community's rabbis produced creative, and often unprecedented scholarship on the Jewish Bible as well as the New Testament. Amsterdam's People of the Book shows that this unique, Bible-centered culture resulted from the confluence of the Jewish community's Catholic and converso past with the Protestant world in which they came to live. Studying Amsterdam's Jews offers an early window into the prioritization of the Bible over rabbinic literature -- a trend that continues through modernity in western Europe. It allows us to see how Amsterdam's rabbis experimented with new historical methods for understanding the Bible, and how they grappled with doubts about the authority and truth of the Bible that were growing in the world around them. Amsterdam's People of the Book allows us to appreciate how Benedict Spinoza's ideas were in fact shaped by the approaches to reading the Bible in the community where he was born, raised, and educated. After all, as Spinoza himself remarked, before becoming Amsterdam's most famous heretic and one of Europe's leading philosophers and biblical critics, he was "steeped in the common beliefs about the Bible from childhood on."
A Collage of Customs
Author: Mark Podwal
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Published: 2021-05-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780878205097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Modernized illustrations based upon 16th-century mingahim books (books of Jewish customs), with an introduction, and descriptions of each image"--
A Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof
Author: Thomas Fuller
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 750
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Jews in Christian Europe
Author: Jacob R. Marcus
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Published: 2016-12-31
Total Pages: 746
ISBN-13: 0822981238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's The Jews in The Medieval World has remained an indispensable resource for its comprehensive view of Jewish historical experience from late antiquity through the early modern period, viewed through primary source documents in English translation. In this new work based on Marcus's classic source book, Marc Saperstein has recast the volume's focus, now fully centered on Christian Europe, updated the work's organizational format, and added seventy-two new annotated sources. In his compelling introduction, Saperstein supplies a modern and thought-provoking discussion of the changing values that influence our understanding of history, analyzing issues surrounding periodization, organization, and inclusion. Through a vast range of documents written by Jews and Christians, including historical narratives, legal opinions, martyrologies, memoirs, polemics, epitaphs, advertisements, folktales, ethical and pedagogical writings, book prefaces and colophons, commentaries, and communal statutes, The Jews in Christian Europe allows the actors and witnesses of events to speak for themselves.
Judaica Reference Sources
Author: Charles Cutter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2004-02-28
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0313053332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA recipient of the Outstanding Reference Award from the Association of Jewish Librarians in its earlier edition, this updated edition of Judaica Reference Sources maintains its editorial excellence while revising and expanding coverage for the new century. Virtually every aspect of Jewish life, knowledge, history, culture, religion, and contemporary issues is covered in this annotated, bibliographic guide. A critical collection development tool for college, university, public school, and synagogue libraries, Judaica Reference Sources provides entries for over 1,000 reference works, as well as a selective list of related Web sites, in English, French, German, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Works published since 1970 are emphasized. Unique in providing expert guidance to Judaica material for the librarian, the layperson, the student, and the researcher, this reference guide is a versatile tool that will fulfill your every need for Judaica material.
Judaica, a Short-title Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets, and Manuscripts Relating to the Political, Social, and Cultural History of the Jews and to the Jewish Question in the Library of Ludwig Rosenberger, Chicago, Illinois
Author: Herbert Cecil Zafren
Publisher: Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatalog of the Gerald K. Stone Collection of Judaica
Author: Gerald K. Stone
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Published: 2021-01-05
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 164469476X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerald K. Stone has collected books about Canadian Jewry since the early 1980s. This volume is a descriptive catalog of his Judaica collection, comprising nearly 6,000 paper or electronic documentary resources in English, French, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Logically organized, indexed, and selectively annotated, the catalog is broad in scope, covering Jewish Canadian history, biography, religion, literature, the Holocaust, antisemitism, Israel and the Middle East, and more. An introduction by Richard Menkis discusses the significance of the Catalog and collecting for the study of the Jewish experience in Canada. An informative bibliographical resource, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Canadian and North American Jewish studies.
Cyclopaedia Bibliographica
Author: James Darling
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 1702
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVienna and the Jews, 1867-1938
Author: Steven Beller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521407274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book studies the role played by Jews in the explosion of cultural innovation in Vienna at the turn of the century, which had its roots in the years following the Ausgleich of 1867 and its demise in the sweeping events of the 1930s. The author shows that, in terms of personnel, Jews were predominant throughout most of Viennese high culture, and so any attempts to dismiss the "Jewish aspect" of the intelligentsia are refuted. The book goes on to explain this "Jewish aspect," dismissing any unitary, static model and adopting a historical approach that sees the "Jewishness" of Viennese modern culture as a result of the specific Jewish backgrounds of most of the leading cultural figures and their reactions to being Jewish.
