TY  - GEN
T1  - Connecting histories : Jews and their others in early modern Europe
T2  - Jewish culture and contexts.
A2  - Bregoli, Francesca
A2  - Ruderman, David B.
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1089683570
AB  - 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.
OP  - 318
CN  - DS135.E81 C66 2019eb
SN  - 9780812296037
SN  - 0812296036
SN  - 9780812250916
SN  - 0812250915
KW  - Jews : Europe : Social life and customs : To 1500.
KW  - Jews : Europe : Identity : History : To 1500.
KW  - Judaism : Relations : Christianity : History : To 1500.
KW  - Christianity and other religions : Judaism : History : To 1500.
KW  - Europe : Ethnic relations : History : To 1500.
KW  - Juifs : Europe : Mœurs et coutumes : Jusqu'à 1500.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Western.
KW  - RELIGION : Judaism : History.
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Interfaith relations
KW  - Jews : Identity
KW  - Jews : Social life and customs
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Europe
KW  - To 1500
KW  - History
ER  -