Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry - 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 Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry write by Alessandro Guetta. This book was released on 2009. Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analysing well-known Hebrew medieval poets from a new, refreshing standpoint and focusing on less known authors and periods, this book shows the maturity of the research in this field. Written in English (and French) the articles make the Hebrew texts more easily available to scholars of comparative literature.
Beautiful Death
Beautiful Death - 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 Beautiful Death write by Susan L. Einbinder. This book was released on 2002-07-01. Beautiful Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the laments reflecting the specific conditions of Jewish life in northern France. The poems offer insight into everyday life and into the ways medieval French Jews responded to persecution. They also suggest that poetry was used to encourage resistance to intensifying pressures to convert. The educated Jewish elite in northern France was highly acculturated. Their poetry--particularly that emerging from the innovative Tosafist schools--reflects their engagement with the vernacular renaissance unfolding around them, as well as conscious and unconscious absorption of Christian popular beliefs and hagiographical conventions. At the same time, their extraordinary poems signal an increasingly harsh repudiation of Christianity's sacred symbols and beliefs. They reveal a complex relationship to Christian culture as Jews internalized elements of medieval culture even while expressing a powerful revulsion against the forms and beliefs of Christian life. This gracefully written study crosses traditional boundaries of history and literature and of Jewish and general medieval scholarship. Focusing on specific incidents of persecution and the literary commemorations they produced, it offers unique insights into the historical conditions in which these poems were written and performed.
Theology and Poetry
Theology and Poetry - 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 Theology and Poetry write by Jakob J. Petuchowski. This book was released on 1978-09-01. Theology and Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Middle Ages, unconventional theological views were often expressed in poetic form. Jakob Petuchowski provides parallel texts of ten medieval theological poems in the standard liturgy that express unconventional and daring theological ideas, each with a commentary on the poem and its author, and a survey of Jewish thought on its particular theme.
A Matter of Geography: A New Perspective on Medieval Hebrew Poetry
A Matter of Geography: A New Perspective on Medieval Hebrew Poetry - 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 A Matter of Geography: A New Perspective on Medieval Hebrew Poetry write by Uriah Kfir. This book was released on 2018-03-12. A Matter of Geography: A New Perspective on Medieval Hebrew Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Matter of Geography: A New Perspective on Medieval Hebrew Poetry takes a ground-breaking approach to the relationships between centers of medieval Hebrew poetry and their implications regarding matters of poetics. It shows on the one hand how literary efforts by members of the Spanish school of secular poetry, from its zenith in the eleventh century to the thirteenth century, helped gradually shape its predominance. On the other hand, it presents thirteenth century Hebrew poets from Iraq, Egypt, Italy and Provence, and charts the different strategies of these “peripheral” authors, who had to cope with Iberian fame. The analysis, which draws on concepts from literary and cultural theories, provides close readings of many works in both the original Hebrew and, in most cases for the first time, an English translation. "Kfir’s book makes a strong case for the craft, vibrancy, and richness of Medieval Hebrew poetry as rooted in place. Highly recommended for scholars of medieval Hebrew poetry, poetry aficionados, and historians." - David B. Levy, Touro College, in: Association of Jewish LIbraries 8.4 (2018)
Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature
Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature - 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 Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature write by Isadore Twersky. This book was released on 1979. Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. critical edition and annotated translation of one of the classics of Jewish biblical interpretation. The collection will be indispensable to all students of Jewish history and culture.
