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Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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In the last two decades, Jewish historians worldwide have developed
and refined the discussion of an "early modern" period in Jewish
culture, spanning roughly three centuries from 1500 to 1800, and
have increasingly found this periodization to be a useful heuristic
for interpreting historical developments.
Thirty-one leading scholars both within and beyond Jewish studies
advance, refine, and challenge how we understand the Jewish early
modern period. The collection includes a comprehensive range of
topics, beginning by examining authority structures of Jewish
communities following the expulsions and migrations that reshaped
the geographical contours of the Jewish world. The formation of
Jewish communities, communal autonomy, and cultural representations
of leadership are explored, pointing to a geographical remapping of
a Jewish early modernity that can contribute to a better
understanding of the integrated economic and cultural landscape of
the time. The volume then moves to consider Jewish intellectual
life in light of demographic, political, and technological
change--especially the advent of print culture. From there, the
discussion moves to cultural and intellectual interchange,
especially between Jews and Christians, and next, to
eighteenth-century Jewish culture as a fulcrum of the early and
late modernity. Finally, the book concludes by tracing the early
modern as it is both etched into and effaced from later eras,
reflecting on the project of historiography as both retelling the
past and connecting to the past in the present.
Read individually, the essays in this volume are finely detailed
case studies that illuminate specific aspects of Jewish culture.
Read as a mosaic, the studies combine to form a rich and nuanced
portrait of a culture that is both a contributor to and a product
of early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
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