Social and Religious History of the Jews - Late Middle Ages and Era of European Expansion, 1200-1650
Author: Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780231088527
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Social and Religious History of the Jews
Author: Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1970-01-22
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780231088510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned to accompany the 18-volume reference work, this index contains the names, events and dates that appear in the last 9 volumes of the set. It includes a chronological table of principal events and personalities.
A Social and Religious History of the Jews. Index to Volumes IX-XVIII
Author: Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780231088565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.
A Social and Religious History of the Jews: Late Middle Ages and the era of European expansion, 1200-1650
Author: Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780231088558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial and Religious History of the Jews
Author: Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780231088466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.
Handbook of European History 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation
Author: Thomas Brady
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-12
Total Pages: 735
ISBN-13: 9004391657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook of European History 1400-1600 brings together the best scholarship into an array of topical chapters that present current knowledge and thinking in ways useful to the specialist and accessible to students and to the educated non-specialist. Forty-one leading scholars in this field of history present the state of knowledge about the grand themes, main controversies and fruitful directions for research of European history in this era. Volume 1 (Structures and Assertions) described the people, lands, religions and political structures which define the setting for this historical period. Volume 2 (Visions, Programs, Outcomes) covers the early stages of the process by which newly established confessional structures began to work their way among the populace.
Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th–17th Centuries
Author: Henryk Szlajfer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-13
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9004686444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmsterdam Jews appeared up to the mid-17th century as Braudelian “great Jewish merchants.” However, the New Christians, heretic judaizantes in the eyes of the Inquisition, dispersed around the world group sui generis, were equally crucial. Their religious identities were fluid, but at the same time they and the “new Jews” from Amsterdam formed a part of economic modernity epitomized by the rebellious Netherlands and the developing Atlantic economy. At the height of their influence they played a pivotal, albeit controversial, role in the rising slave trade. The disappearance of New Christians in Latin America had to be contextualised with inquisitorial persecutions and growing competition in mind.
Early Modern Diasporas
Author: Mathilde Monge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-04-27
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1000572145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first encompassing history of diasporas in Europe between 1500 and 1800. Huguenots, Sephardim, British Catholics, Mennonites, Moriscos, Moravian Brethren, Quakers, Ashkenazim... what do these populations who roamed Europe in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries have in common? Despite an extensive historiography of diasporas, publications have tended to focus on the history of a single diaspora. Each of these groups was part of a community whose connections crossed political and cultural as well as religious borders. Each built dynamic networks through which information, people, and goods circulated. United by a memory of persecution, by an attachment to a homeland—be it real or dreamed—and by economic ties, those groups were nevertheless very diverse. As minorities, they maintained complex relationships with authorities, local inhabitants, and other diasporic populations. This book investigates the tensions they experienced. Between unity and heterogeneity, between mobility and locality, between marginalisation and assimilation, it attempts to reconcile global- and micro-historical approaches. The authors provide a comparative view as well as elaborate case studies for scholars, students, and the public who are interested in learning about how the social sciences and history contribute to our understanding of integration, migrations, and religious coexistence.
All Scripture Has a Journey
Author: K Keith Megilligan
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2023-07-10
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bible is the most familiar book on the planet. But how did the Bible become the Bible? What is the basis of its composition? What’s this I hear about “inspired”? Who is its author? Why are there two Testaments? What is a Testament? Is it true that it was originally written in two or three languages? How did we get the English version of the Bible? So many questions about one book! In All Scripture has a Journey, author Keith Megilligan presents the results of his lifelong query of how the Bible came to be. He addresses a host of question about its composition, history, “heroes” who helped along the way and the price that was paid to bring it to us. This handbook summarizes the English Bible’s journey from origin to publication. Whether the Bible is a dog-eared and well-worn leather bound book or the latest e-pub edition on your devices, that Bible has a journey. God, the Holy Spirit, superintended its origin and preservation.
Salo Baron
Author: Rebecca Kobrin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2022-03-15
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0231555709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions—marking a turning point in the history of Jewish studies in America. Baron not only became perhaps the most accomplished scholar of Jewish history in the twentieth century, the author of many books including the eighteen-volume A Social and Religious History of the Jews. He also created a program and a discipline, mentoring hundreds of scholars, establishing major institutions including the first academic center to study Israel in the United States, building Columbia’s Judaica collection, intervening as a public intellectual, and exerting an unparalleled influence on what it meant to study the Jewish past. This book brings together leading scholars to consider how Baron transformed the course of Jewish studies in the United States. From a variety of perspectives, they reflect on his contributions to the study of Jewish history, literature, and culture, as well as his scholarship, activism, and mentorship. Among many distinguished contributors, David Sorkin engages with Baron’s arguments on Jewish emancipation; Francesca Trivellato puts him in conversation with economic history; David Engel examines his use of anti-Semitism as an analytical category; Deborah Lipstadt explores his testimony at the trial of Adolf Eichmann; and Robert Chazan and Jane Gerber, both once Baron’s doctoral students, offer personal and intellectual reminiscences. Together, they testify to Baron’s singular legacy in shaping Jewish studies in America.
