Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and
economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of
early modern Europe were extraordinarily mobile, experiencing both
displacement and integration into new cultural, legal, and
political settings. This, in turn, led to unprecedented modes of
social mixing for Jews, especially for those living in urban areas,
who frequently encountered Jews from different ethnic backgrounds
and cultural orientations. Additionally, Jews formed social,
economic, and intellectual bonds with mixed populations of
Christians. While not necessarily effacing Jewish loyalties to
local places, authorities, and customs, these connections and
exposures to novel cultural settings created new allegiances as
well as new challenges, resulting in constructive relations in some
cases and provoking strife and controversy in others. The essays
collected by Francesca Bregoli and David B. Ruderman in Connecting
Histories show that while it is not possible to speak of a single,
cohesive transregional Jewish culture in the early modern period,
Jews experienced pockets of supra-local connections between West
and East-for example, between Italy and Poland, Poland and the Holy
Land, and western and eastern Ashkenaz-as well as increased
exchanges between high and low culture. Special attention is
devoted to the impact of the printing press and the strategies of
representation and self-representation through which Jews forged
connections in a world where their status as a tolerated minority
was ambiguous and in constant need of renegotiation. Exploring the
ways in which early modern Jews related to Jews from different
backgrounds and to the non-Jews around them, Connecting Histories
emphasizes not only the challenging nature and impact of these
encounters but also the ambivalence experienced by Jews as they met
their others. Contributors: Michela Andreatta, Francesca Bregoli,
Joseph Davis, Jesus de Prado Plumed, Andrea Gondos, Rachel L.
Greenblatt, Gershon David Hundert, Fabrizio Lelli, Moshe Idel,
Debra Kaplan, Lucia Raspe, David B. Ruderman, Pavel Sladek, Claude
B. Stuczynski, Rebekka Voss.
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