Reformation and the Counter-Reformation

Jews, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation
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Jews, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation

  Overview Overview- Jews, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation Primary sources Cum Nimis Absurdum (Bull establishing the Roman ghetto in 1555), translated by Kenneth Stow, in Stow, Catholic Thought and Papal Jewry Policy 1555-1593 (New York- JTS, 1977), 294-298. Secondary sources Ben-Sasson, Haim Hillel. “Jews and Christian Sectarians- Existential Similarity and Dialectical Tensions in Sixteenth-Century […]

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Sefer Yezirah (Liber Iezirah), Amsterdam: Joanne Stephano Rittangelio, 1642, Hebrew text, with Latin translation and commentary, BM525.A4 1642, Title page.
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Sefer Yezirah (Liber Iezirah), Amsterdam: Joanne Stephano Rittangelio, 1642, Hebrew text, with Latin translation and commentary, BM525.A4 1642, Title page.

 

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Portae Lucis (Shaarei Orah), Abraham Joseph Gikatilla (Translated by Paulus Ricius), Augsburg: Johann Miller, 1516, RB424:16, Title page.
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Portae Lucis (Shaarei Orah), Abraham Joseph Gikatilla (Translated by Paulus Ricius), Augsburg: Johann Miller, 1516, RB424:16, Title page.

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Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus, Johannes Leusden, Utrecht, 1663, BS1110.L44, Page 279 – Hoshaana Rabba.
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Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus, Johannes Leusden, Utrecht, 1663, BS1110.L44, Page 279 – Hoshaana Rabba.

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Address to Pope Benedict XIV, Rome, 1751, MS 3668, Fol. 1r.
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Address to Pope Benedict XIV, Rome, 1751, MS 3668, Fol. 1r.

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Overview: Jews, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation
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Overview: Jews, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation

Reformation In the early stages of his break with Rome, Martin Luther seemed to make a stark break with prevalent attitudes about Jews. In a treatise written in 1523, he depicted the Jews as models of common sense- “If I had been a Jew and seen such oafs and numbskulls governing and teaching the Christian […]

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