Overview Overview- Women, Gender, and Learning Primary sources and presentations Jewish Heritage Online Magazine- Excerpts of Gluckel of Hameln memoirs The Letters of Bella Perlhefter, Elisheva Carlebach, Queens College, CUNY, New York, USA. Ordering Early Modern Marriage, Elisheva Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University, Israel. Jewish Marriage in Christian Eyes, Yaacov Deutsch, Hebrew University, Israel. Pinkas […]
Overview Overview- Shabbatai Zvi and Sabbateanism Secondary sources Barnai, Jacob. “Christian Messianism and the Portuguese Marranos- The Emergence of Sabbateanism in Smyrna.” Jewish History 7, no. 2 (1993)- 119-126. Goldish, Matt. “An Historical Irony- Solomon Aailion’s Court Tries the Case of a Repentant Sabbatean.” Studia Rosenthaliana 27, no. 1 (1993)- 5-12. Idel, Moshe. “”One from […]
Overview Overview- History-writing Breuer, Mordecai. “Modernism and Traditionalism in 16th Century Jewish Historiography- A Study of David Gans’ Tzemah David.” In Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century, edited by Bernard Cooperman. Cambridge- Harvard University Press, 1983. Melamed, Abraham. “The Perception of Jewish History in Italian Jewish Thought of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries- A Re-Examination.” […]
Overview Overview- Halakhah Primary sources and presentations Newman, Eugene. Life & Teachings of Isaiah Horowitz. London- G.J. Goerge & Co. Ltd., 1972. Research Notes- Page 29- Excerpt from the writings of Isaiah Horowtiz on how he studied under the Rabbi Solomon (supposedly of Lublin) before the marriage of the former and the recommendation Solomon gave […]
Overview Overview- Lurianic Kabbalah and Mysticism Primary sources and presentations Sefer `Ets Hayyim, Yosef Hacker, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Popularization of the Kabbalah- Two Early Modern Perspectives, Boaz Huss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Sefer Ha-Heshek, Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. The Role of Marriage and Marital Sexuality in Lurianic Kabbalah, Lawrence Fine, […]
Early Modern Period The early modern period brought several new developments in traditional Jewish culture- a proliferation of commentaries and responsa literature, in part a result of printing; a brief interest in historical writing; and the elaboration and popularization of Kabbalah. Lurianic Kabbalah and Mysticism Halakhah History-writing
Overview Overview- Impact of Printing Primary sources and presentations Seder Mitzvot Nashim, Edward Fram, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Sefer Ha-Heshek. Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Popularization of the Kabbalah,- Two Early Modern Perspectives, Boaz Huss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Sefer `Ets Hayyim, Yosef Hacker, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Hurvitz, Mark. “The Colophon to […]
Secondary sources Adler, Israel, and Edwin Seroussi. “Musical Notations of Zemîrôt (Sabbath Table Songs) in an Eighteenth Century Manuscript at the Prague National Library.” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 20 (1998)- 5-24. Abstract- Discussion of a notated manuscript of five Hebrew melodies, or zemirot, traditionally sung at Sabbath meals, and their German translations from between […]
Overview Overview- Introduction to Jews in the Early Modern Period Primary sources The expulsion decree- published in Edward Peters, “Jewish History and Gentile Memory,” Jewish History 9 (1995), pp. 23-28. Judah Abravanel Poem to His Son (1503), translated by Raymond Scheindlin published in “Judah Abravanel and His Sons” in Judaism 41 (Spring 1992). Charter […]
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