Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience write by Brian Smollett. This book was released on 2014-10-30. Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience brings together twenty scholars of Modern Jewish history and thought. The essays provide a fresh perspective on several central questions in Jewish intellectual, social, and religious history from the eighteenth century to the present in the contexts of Russia, Western and Central Europe, and the Americas.
Communings of the Spirit
Communings of the Spirit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communings of the Spirit write by Mel Scult. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Communings of the Spirit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars of Judaica and rabbinical studies will value this honest look at the preeminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi of our times.
Jews and Protestants
Jews and Protestants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jews and Protestants write by Irene Aue-Ben David. This book was released on 2020-08-24. Jews and Protestants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book sheds light on various chapters in the long history of Protestant-Jewish relations, from the Reformation to the present. Going beyond questions of antisemitism and religious animosity, it aims to disentangle some of the intricate perceptions, interpretations, and emotions that have characterized contacts between Protestantism and Judaism, and between Jews and Protestants. While some papers in the book address Luther’s antisemitism and the NS-Zeit, most papers broaden the scope of the investigation: Protestant-Jewish theological encounters shaped not only antisemitism but also the Jewish Reform movement and Protestant philosemitic post-Holocaust theology; interactions between Jews and Protestants took place not only in the German lands but also in the wider Protestant universe; theology was crucial for the articulation of attitudes toward Jews, but music and philosophy were additional spheres of creativity that enabled the process of thinking through the relations between Judaism and Protestantism. By bringing together various contributions on these and other aspects, the book opens up directions for future research on this intricate topic, which bears both historical significance and evident relevance to our own time.
Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society
Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society write by Aviva Ben-Ur. This book was released on 2020-06-05. Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating portrait of Jewish life in Suriname from the 17th to 19th centuries Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname, a Dutch colony on the South American mainland just north of Brazil. Suriname was home to the most privileged Jewish community in the Americas where Jews, most of Iberian origin, enjoyed religious liberty, were judged by their own tribunal, could enter any trade, owned plantations and slaves, and even had a say in colonial governance. Aviva Ben-Ur sets the story of Suriname's Jews in the larger context of Atlantic slavery and colonialism and argues that, like other frontier settlements, they achieved and maintained their autonomy through continual negotiation with the colonial government. Drawing on sources in Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Spanish, Ben-Ur shows how, from their first permanent settlement in the 1660s to the abolition of their communal autonomy in 1825, Suriname Jews enjoyed virtually the same standing as the ruling white Protestants, with whom they interacted regularly. She also examines the nature of Jewish interactions with enslaved and free people of African descent in the colony. Jews admitted both groups into their community, and Ben-Ur illuminates the ways in which these converts and their descendants experienced Jewishness and autonomy. Lastly, she compares the Jewish settlement with other frontier communities in Suriname, most notably those of Indians and Maroons, to measure the success of their negotiations with the government for communal autonomy. The Jewish experience in Suriname was marked by unparalleled autonomy that nevertheless developed in one of the largest slave colonies in the New World.
Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History
Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History write by Jane S. Gerber. This book was released on 2020-05-20. Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sephardi identity has meant different things at different times, but has always entailed a connection with Spain, from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. While Sephardi Jews have lived in numerous cities and towns throughout history, certain cities had a greater impact in the shaping of their culture. This book focuses on those that may be considered most important, from Cordoba in the tenth century to Toledo, Venice, Safed, Istanbul, Salonica, and Amsterdam at the dawn of the seventeenth century. Each served as a venue in which a particular dimension of Sephardi Jewry either took shape or was expressed in especially intense form. Significantly, these cities were mostly heterogeneous in their population and culture—half of them under Christian rule and half under Muslim rule—and this too shaped the Sephardi world-view and attitude. While Sephardim cultivated a distinctive identity, they felt at home in the cultures of their adopted lands. Drawing upon a variety of both primary and secondary sources, Jane Gerber demonstrates that Sephardi history and culture have always been multifaceted. Her interdisciplinary approach captures the many contexts in which the life of the Jews from Iberia unfolded, without either romanticizing the past or diluting its reality.
