November 16, 2015 European Anti Semitism A MAYOR IN HUNGARY ACCUSED ISRAEL OF BEING BEHIND THE RECENT TERRORIST ATTACKS IN PARIS, THEN APOLOGIZED WHEN A RECORDING OF THE COMMENTS WAS MADE PUBLIC. During the meeting, according to the news website, Gábor Huszár, who has served as the mayor of Szentgotthárd since 2010, apparently sought to […]
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In Muslim lands Jews along with Christians were considered dhimmi, or “people of the pact.” The dhimmi status was based on a few Qur’anic statements, from Sura 9-29- “Fight against those to whom the Scriptures were given and who believe not in God nor in the Last Day, who forbid not what God and His […]
Early Modern Period Introduction to Cultural Trends Impact of Printing Innovations among Conversos and Portuguese Jews Rabbinic Culture and Learning Messianic Movements Women, Gender, and Learning Jews, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation Science, Philosophy, and Literature
Overview Overview- Mercantilism Secondary sources Israel, Jonathan. “An Amsterdam Jewish Merchant of the Golden Age- Jeronimo Nunes Da Costa (1620-1697), Agent of Portugal in the Dutch Republic.” Studia Rosenthaliana 18, no. 1 (1984)- 21-40. Israel, Jonathan. “The Economic Contribution of Dutch Sephardi Jewry to Holland’s Golden Age, 1595-1713.” Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 96, no. 4 (1983)- […]
Early Modern Period Mercantilism Court Jews
Overview Overview- Austria and Bohemian Lands Secondary sources Breuer, Mordechai. “Modernism and Traditionalism in 16th-c. Jewish Historiography- A Study of David Gans’ Tzemach David,” in Bernard Cooperman, ed., Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century, 49-88. Greenblatt, Rachel L. “The Shapes of Memory- Evidence in Stone from the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague.” Leo Baeck […]
Early Modern Period Overview Overview- German Lands Primary sources and presentations Records of the Metz Beit Din, Jay R. Berkovitz, University of Massachusetts, USA. Domestic Interiors of Two Viennese Jewish Elites, David Horowitz, Columbia University, USA. Rural Jews in Alsace, Debra Kaplan, Yeshiva University, USA. The Personal Record Book of Hayyim Gundersheim Dayyan, Edward Fram, […]
Overview Overview- Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Primary sources and presentations Jewish legal status in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,Adam Teller, University of Haifa, Israel. Close Quarters- Privacy and Jewish House Space in Early Modern Polish CitiesAdam Teller, University of Haifa, Israel. Unequal Opportunities- The Economic Possibilities Open to Jewish Women in 18th Century Poland-Lithuania, Adam […]
