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The Cambridge History of Judaism

Volume 7. The Early Modern World, 1500–1815

Part of The Cambridge History of Judaism

Editors:
Jonathan Karp, State University of New York, Binghamton
Adam Sutcliffe, King's College London

Jonathan Karp, Adam Sutcliffe, Kenneth Stow, R. Po-chia Hsia, Joseph R. Hacker, Andreas Gotzmann, Francesca Trivellato, Elisheva Carlebach, David Graizbord, Israel Bartal, Matthias B. Lehmann, Jean Baumgarten, Emile G. L. Schrijver, Theodore Dunkelgrun, Jay R. Berkovitz, Yosef Kaplan, Marc Saperstein, Lawrence Fine, J. H. Chajes, Matt Goldish, Adam Shear, Lois C. Dubin, Adam Teller, Glenn Dynner, Moshe Rosman, Edward Breuer, Elliott Horowitz, Marc Michael Epstein, Edwin Seroussi, Deborah Hertz, Michael K. Silber, François Guesnet, Francesca Bregoli, Bart T. Wallet, Irene Zwiep, Todd M. Endelman, Wim Klooster, Bill Pencak, Tudor Parfitt, Vera B. Moreen, David B. Ruderman

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Date Published: November 2017
availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from July 2023
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521889049

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This seventh volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, from 1500 to 1815. The essays, written by an international team of scholars, situate the Jewish experience in relation to the multiple political, intellectual and cultural currents of the period. They also explore and problematize the 'modernization' of world Jewry over this period from a global perspective, covering Jews in the Islamic world and in the Americas, as well as in Europe, with many chapters straddling the conventional lines of division between Sephardic, Ashkenazic, and Mizrahi history. The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative work in this field currently available, this volume will serve as an essential reference tool and ideal point of entry for advanced students and scholars of early modern Jewish history.
- Almost forty chapters, each written by a leading expert in their field, offer a commanding and detailed survey of all key aspects of early modern history
- Each chapter offers an engaging summary of current knowledge, but also engages with leading scholarship and provides an interpretive overview of the topic under discussion
- Will appeal to readers from advanced undergraduate level, as well as educated general readers who need information to be provided in an accessible fashion, including other scholars in the field who will seek and find challenging interpretations and syntheses
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Product details
- Date Published: November 2017
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521889049
- length: 1152 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 160 x 46 mm
- weight: 1.49kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus. 8 maps
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from July 2023
Table of Contents
Introduction Jonathan Karp and Adam Sutcliffe
Part I. European and Mediterranean Jewry 1500–1650:
1. The Catholic Church and the Jews Kenneth Stow
2. Judaism and Protestantism R. Po-chia Hsia
3. The rise of Ottoman Jewry Joseph R. Hacker
4. The shifting legal and political status of early modern Jewries Andreas Gotzmann
5. Jews and the early modern economy Francesca Trivellato
6. The early modern Jewish community and its institutions Elisheva Carlebach
Part II. Themes and Trends in Early Modern Jewish Life:
7. Iberia and beyond: Judeoconversos and the Iberian inquisitions David Graizbord
8. The establishment of East European Jewry Israel Bartal
9. Linguistic transformations: Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Matthias B. Lehmann
10. Continuity and change in early modern Yiddish language and literature Jean Baumgarten
11. Jewish book culture since the invention of printing (1469–c.1815) Emile G. L. Schrijver
12. The Christian study of Judaism in early modern Europe Theodore Dunkelgrun
13. Rabbinic culture and the development of Halakhah Jay R. Berkovitz
14. Discipline, dissent, and communal authority in the Western Sephardic Diaspora Yosef Kaplan
15. Education and Homiletics Marc Saperstein
16. Dimensions of Kabbalah from the Spanish expulsion to the dawn of Hasidism Lawrence Fine
17. Magic, mysticism, and popular belief in Jewish culture (1500–1815) J. H. Chajes
18. Sabbatai Sevi and the Sabbatean movement Matt Goldish
19. Science, medicine and Jewish philosophy Adam Shear
20. Port Jews revisited: commerce and culture in the age of European expansion Lois C. Dubin
21. Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian economy (1453–1795) Adam Teller
22. Jewish piety and devotion in early modern Eastern Europe Glenn Dynner
23. The rise of Hasidism Moshe Rosman
24. Enlightenment and Haskalah Edward Breuer
25. Women, water, and wine: the paradoxical piety of early modern Jewry Elliott Horowitz
26. Jews, Judaism, and the visual arts Marc Michael Epstein
27. Musical dilemmas of early modern Jews Edwin Seroussi
Part III. The Jewish World, 1650–1815:
28. Judaism in Germany (1650–1815) Deborah Hertz
29. The making of Habsburg Jewry in the long eighteenth century Michael K. Silber
30. The Jews of Poland-Lithuania (1650–1815) François Guesnet
31. The Jews of the Ottoman Empire 1580–1839 Joseph R. Hacker
32. The Jews of Italy (1650–1815) Francesca Bregoli
33. Locals: the Jews in the early modern Dutch Republic Bart T. Wallet and Irene Zwiep
34. The Jews of France (c.1650–c.1815) Jay R. Berkovitz
35. The Jews of Great Britain (1650–1815) Todd M. Endelman
36. The Jews in the early modern Caribbean and the Atlantic world Wim Klooster
37. The Jews in early North America: agents of empire, champions of liberty Bill Pencak
38. The Jews of Africa and Asia (1500–1815) Tudor Parfitt
39. The Jews of Iran in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Vera B. Moreen
40. Toleration, integration, regeneration, and reform: rethinking the roots and routes of 'Jewish emancipation' Adam Sutcliffe
41. Looking backward and forward: rethinking Jewish modernity in the light of early modernity David B. Ruderman
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Editors
Jonathan Karp, State University of New York, Binghamton
Jonathan Karp is Associate Professor, History and Judaic Studies Departments at State University of New York, Binghamton. He is the author of The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638–1848 (Cambridge, 2008), and the co-editor, with Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, of The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (2007) and, with Adam Sutcliffe, of Philosemitism in History (Cambridge, 2011). He has published articles and essays on a wide range of topics, with a particular focus on Jewish economic life, Jews and music, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Adam Sutcliffe, King's College London
Adam Sutcliffe is Reader in European History, Department of History at King's College London. He is the author of Judaism and Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2003), and the co-editor of Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture: From a-Andalus to the Haskalah (with Ross Brann, 2004) and of Philosemitism in History (with Jonathan Karp, Cambridge, 2011). He has published numerous articles and essays on various aspects of early modern Jewish history and intellectual history, particularly on the place of Jewish themes and issues in European thought from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Contributors
Jonathan Karp, Adam Sutcliffe, Kenneth Stow, R. Po-chia Hsia, Joseph R. Hacker, Andreas Gotzmann, Francesca Trivellato, Elisheva Carlebach, David Graizbord, Israel Bartal, Matthias B. Lehmann, Jean Baumgarten, Emile G. L. Schrijver, Theodore Dunkelgrun, Jay R. Berkovitz, Yosef Kaplan, Marc Saperstein, Lawrence Fine, J. H. Chajes, Matt Goldish, Adam Shear, Lois C. Dubin, Adam Teller, Glenn Dynner, Moshe Rosman, Edward Breuer, Elliott Horowitz, Marc Michael Epstein, Edwin Seroussi, Deborah Hertz, Michael K. Silber, François Guesnet, Francesca Bregoli, Bart T. Wallet, Irene Zwiep, Todd M. Endelman, Wim Klooster, Bill Pencak, Tudor Parfitt, Vera B. Moreen, David B. Ruderman