Connecting histories : Jews and their others in early modern Europe /
Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of early modern Europe were extraordinarily mobile, experiencing both displacement and integration into new cultural, legal, and political settings. This, in turn, led to un...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2019]
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| Series: | Jewish culture and contexts.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6jrk |
| Summary: | Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of early modern Europe were extraordinarily mobile, experiencing both displacement and integration into new cultural, legal, and political settings. This, in turn, led to unprecedented modes of social mixing for Jews, especially for those living in urban areas, who frequently encountered Jews from different ethnic backgrounds and cultural orientations. Additionally, Jews formed social, economic, and intellectual bonds with mixed populations of Christians. While not necessarily effacing Jewish loyalties to local places, authorities, and customs, these connections and exposures to novel cultural settings created new allegiances as well as new challenges, resulting in constructive relations in some cases and provoking strife and controversy in others.0The essays collected by Francesca Bregoli and David B. Ruderman in 'Connecting Histories' show that while it is not possible to speak of a single, cohesive transregional Jewish culture in the early modern period, Jews experienced pockets of supra-local connections between West and East-for example, between Italy and Poland, Poland and the Holy Land, and western and eastern Ashkenaz-as well as increased exchanges between high and low culture. Special attention is devoted to the impact of the printing press and the strategies of representation and self-representation through which Jews forged connections in a world where their status as a tolerated minority was ambiguous and in constant need of renegotiation. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 318 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812296037 0812296036 9780812250916 0812250915 |