Download or read book Constellations of Atlantic Jewish History 1555 1890 written by Arnold Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World written by Aviva Ben-Ur and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World represents the first collective attempt to reframe the study of colonial and early American Jewry within the context of Atlantic History. From roughly 1500 to 1830, the Atlantic World was a tightly intertwined swathe of global powers that included Europe, Africa, North and South America, and the Caribbean. How, when, and where do Jews figure in this important chapter of history? This book explores these questions and many others. The essays of this volume foreground the connectivity between Jews and other population groups in the realms of empire, trade, and slavery, taking readers from the shores of Caribbean islands to various outposts of the Dutch, English, Spanish, and Portuguese empires. Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World revolutionizes the study of Jews in early American history, forging connections and breaking down artificial academic divisions so as to start writing the history of an Atlantic world influenced strongly by the culture, economy, politics, religion, society, and sexual relations of Jewish people.

Download or read book The Sephardic Atlantic written by Sina Rauschenbach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is a collection of substantive, sophisticated and variegated essays, combining case studies with theoretical reflections, organized into three sections: race and blood, metropoles and colonies, and history and memory. Twelve chapters treat converso slave traders, race and early Afro-Portuguese relations in West Africa, Sephardim and people of color in nineteenth-century Curaçao, Portuguese converso/Sephardic imperialist behavior, Caspar Barlaeus’ attitude toward Jews in the Sephardic Atlantic, Jewish-Creole historiography in eighteenth-century Suriname, Savannah’s eighteenth-century Sephardic community in an Altantic setting, Freemasonry and Sephardim in the British Empire, the figure of Columbus in popular literature about the Caribbean, key works of Caribbean postcolonial literature on Sephardim, the holocaust, slavery and race, Canadian Jewish identity in the reception history of Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue and Moroccan-Jewish memories of a sixteenth-century Portuguese military defeat.

Download or read book Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th 17th Centuries written by Henryk Szlajfer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amsterdam Jews appeared up to the mid-17th century as Braudelian “great Jewish merchants.” However, the New Christians, heretic judaizantes in the eyes of the Inquisition, dispersed around the world group sui generis, were equally crucial. Their religious identities were fluid, but at the same time they and the “new Jews” from Amsterdam formed a part of economic modernity epitomized by the rebellious Netherlands and the developing Atlantic economy. At the height of their influence they played a pivotal, albeit controversial, role in the rising slave trade. The disappearance of New Christians in Latin America had to be contextualised with inquisitorial persecutions and growing competition in mind.

Download or read book Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society written by Aviva Ben-Ur and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of Jewish life in Suriname from the 17th to 19th centuries Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname, a Dutch colony on the South American mainland just north of Brazil. Suriname was home to the most privileged Jewish community in the Americas where Jews, most of Iberian origin, enjoyed religious liberty, were judged by their own tribunal, could enter any trade, owned plantations and slaves, and even had a say in colonial governance. Aviva Ben-Ur sets the story of Suriname's Jews in the larger context of Atlantic slavery and colonialism and argues that, like other frontier settlements, they achieved and maintained their autonomy through continual negotiation with the colonial government. Drawing on sources in Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Spanish, Ben-Ur shows how, from their first permanent settlement in the 1660s to the abolition of their communal autonomy in 1825, Suriname Jews enjoyed virtually the same standing as the ruling white Protestants, with whom they interacted regularly. She also examines the nature of Jewish interactions with enslaved and free people of African descent in the colony. Jews admitted both groups into their community, and Ben-Ur illuminates the ways in which these converts and their descendants experienced Jewishness and autonomy. Lastly, she compares the Jewish settlement with other frontier communities in Suriname, most notably those of Indians and Maroons, to measure the success of their negotiations with the government for communal autonomy. The Jewish experience in Suriname was marked by unparalleled autonomy that nevertheless developed in one of the largest slave colonies in the New World.

Download or read book From Catalonia to the Caribbean The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times written by Federica Francesconi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times is a polyphonic collection of essays in honor of Jane S. Gerber’s contributions as a leading scholar and teacher. Each chapter presents new or underappreciated source materials or questions familiar historical models to expand our understanding of Sephardic cultural, intellectual, and social history. The subjects of this volume are men and women, rich and poor, connected to various Sephardic Diasporas—Spanish, Portuguese, North African, or Middle Eastern—from medieval to modern times. They each, in their own way, challenged the expectations of their societies and helped to define the religious, ethnic, and intellectual experience of Sephardim as well as surrounding cultures throughout the world.

Download or read book Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures written by Anita Norich and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, globalization, hybrid cultures, multilingualism, and interlingual contexts. Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures collects work from prominent scholars in the field, bringing world literary and linguistic perspectives to generate distinctively new historical, cultural, theoretical, and scientific approaches to this topic of ongoing interest. Chapters of this edited volume consider from multiple angles the cultural politics of myths, fantasies, and anxieties of linguistic multiplicity in the history, cultures, folkways, and politics of global Jewry. Methodological range is as important to this project as linguistic range. Thus, in addition to approaches that highlight influence, borrowings, or acculturation, the volume represents those that highlight syncretism, the material conditions of Jewish life, and comparatist perspectives.

Download or read book American Jewish Year Book 2015 written by Arnold Dashefsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Year Book, now in its 115th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities and is the Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities. The first two chapters of Part I examine Jewish immigrant groups to the US and Jewish life on campus. Chapters on “National Affairs” and “Jewish Communal Affairs” analyze the year’s events. Three chapters analyze the demography and geography of the US, Canada, and world Jewish populations. Part II provides Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Centers, social service agencies, national organizations, overnight camps, museums, and Israeli consulates. The final chapters present national and local Jewish periodicals and broadcast media; academic resources, including Jewish Studies Programs, books, articles websites, and research libraries; and lists of major events in the past year, Jewish honorees, and obituaries. For those interested in the North American Jewish community—scholars, service providers, volunteers—this volume undoubtedly provides the single best source of information on the structure, dynamics, and ongoing religious, political, and social challenges confronting the community. It should be on the bookshelf of everyone interested in monitoring the dynamics of change in the Jewish communities of North America. Sidney Goldstein, Founder and Director, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, and Alice Goldstein, Population Studies and Traini ng Center, Brown University The American Jewish Year Book is a unique and valuable resource for Jewish community professionals. It is part almanac, directory, encyclopedia and all together a volume to have within easy reach. It is the best, concise diary of trends, events, and personalities of interest for the past year. We should all welcome the Year Book’s publication as a sign of vitality for the Jewish community. Brenda Gevertz, Executive Director, JPRO Network, the Jewish Professional Resource Organization

Download or read book For the Sake of Learning written by Ann Blair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tribute to Anthony Grafton, a preeminent historian of early modern European intellectual and textual culture and of classical scholarship, fifty-eight contributors present new research across the many areas in which Grafton has been active. The articles span topics from late antiquity to the 20th century, from Europe to North American, and a full spectrum of fields of learning, including art history, the history of science, classics, Jewish and oriental studies, church history and theology, English and German literature, political, social, and book history. Major themes include the communities and dynamics of the Republic of Letters, the reception of classical texts, libraries and book culture, the tools, genres and methods of learning. Contributors are: James S. Amelang, Ann Blair, Christopher S. Celenza, Stuart Clark, Thomas Dandelet, Lorraine Daston, Mordechai Feingold, Paula Findlen, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Robert Goulding, Alastair Hamilton, James Hankins, Nicholas Hardy, Kristine Louise Haugen, Bruce Janacek, Lisa Jardine, Henk Jan de Jonge, Diane Greco Josefowicz, Roland Kany, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Arthur Kiron, Jill Kraye, Urs B. Leu, Scott Mandelbrote, Suzanne Marchand, Margaret Meserve, Paul Michel, Peter N. Miller, Glenn W. Most, Martin Mulsow, Paul Nelles, William R. Newman, C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Laurie Nussdorfer, Jürgen Oelkers, Brian W. Ogilvie, Nicholas Popper, Virginia Reinburg, Daniel Rosenberg, Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Ingrid D. Rowland, David Ruderman, Hester Schadee, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Richard Serjeantson, Salvatore Settis, Jonathan Sheehan, William H. Sherman, Nancy Siraisi, Jacob Soll, Peter Stallybrass, Daniel Stolzenberg, N.M. Swerdlow, Dirk van Miert, Kasper van Ommen, Arnoud Visser, Joanna Weinberg and Helmut Zedelmaier.

Download or read book Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica written by Arnold Kaplan and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, Monticello was seized by the Confederacy and sold but afterwards was reclaimed by Jefferson Levy after a lengthy court battle. On repossession, Monticello was in a state of terrible disrepair. Jefferson Levy then undertook to restore the historic home at great personal expense. The Kaplan Collection has numerous documents relating to the Levy family and the fate of Monticello. The Kaplan Collection holds what may very well be the largest collection of early American Jewish photographs. These include photographs made by Jewish-owned photograph businesses, by Jewish photographers, or of American Jews themselves. Among the noteworthy photographs are Civil War-era photos, for example, of the devastation in Richmond, cartes de visite, portrait (or studio) photos, and dozens of stereographs, the nineteenth-century version of 3-D glasses. The collection extensively covers the career of Solomon Nunes Carvalho, a portrait painter and daguerreotypist who was one of the first commercial Jewish photographers in the United States and perhaps in the world. His career and adventures included accompanying Colonel John C. Fremont on a government-sponsored expedition across the Rocky Mountains to chart the potential for a transcontinental railroad. Carvalho also became famous for his oil painting of President Lincoln. While that painting is not in the Kaplan Collection, there are two oils by Carvalho as well as an exceptionally rare lithograph depicting the interior of the Beth Elohim Synagogue of Charleston, South Carolina, which had been destroyed by fire in April 1838. The lithograph was used to raise funds for rebuilding that house of worship. Though mainly focused on original manuscripts and unique fine and folk works of art, the Kaplan Collection also contains approximately three hundred and fifty volumes of rare printed books, serials, and pamphlets. Among them are a remarkable variety of landmark first edition imprints of Judaica Americana, such as Judah Monis's Hebrew grammar Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet [Ivrit, i.e., Hebrew]. Printed in Boston by Jonas Green in1735 with Hebrew font imported from London, this grammar is regarded as the first Hebrew textbook in colonial America. The Kaplan Collection also holds the second such grammar, authored by Samuel Sewall and printed in Boston in 1763, which is the only other Hebrew grammar published in North America before the nineteenth century. The grammars of Monis, a convert to Christianity, and Sewall, a Christian Hebraist, bear witness to the early Protestant American interest in the language of the Old Testament. In fact, students were required to study Hebrew as part of the early standard curriculum at Harvard, where both men taught. Also found in the Kaplan rare print collection is the Essai historique sur la colonie de Surinam (Paramaribo [Suriname], 1788) by David Nassy, which contains the first history of the Jewish settlement of that Dutch colony. Nassy, a physician who came to Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, was able to treat the city's inhabitants successfully, defying the bloodletting methods of Benjamin Rush. The printed record of how he did it, based on his experiences treating the disease in tropical Suriname, is also in the collection: Observations on the Cause, Nature, and Treatment of the Epidemic Disorder, Prevalent in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Parker & Co. for M. Carey, 1793). Also noteworthy is the first children's book by a Jewish author (Isaac Gomez), which is accompanied by a printed approbation from former President John Adams pasted inside its cover; the first Jewish almanac ( lu'ah), printed by Moses Lopez (the Kaplan copy once belonged to Rebecca Gratz and contains her handwritten notes); and what is, according to Jonathan Sarna, probably the first bar mitsvah sermon printed in the United States. The collection of rare early American newspapers includes reprintings of the famous letters of congratulations sent by the Jewish congregations of the new republic to George Washington on the occasion of his inauguration as the first president of the United States. Found here is perhaps the most important exchange in American Jewish letters, that between Moses Seixas, representing the Jews of Newport, and Washington, in which he famously echoes Seixas' phrase "to bigotry no sanction." The phrase heralded a new epoch for Jews as citizens of a republic entitled to the same rights and privileges as all other (male) citizens. Remarkably, the Kaplan Collection holds copies, some in mint condition, of the contemporary newspaper reprintings of the letters from all six cities (Newport, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Charleston, and Savannah). The Kaplan Collection also has the first printing of Benjamin Nones's "I am a Jew, I am a Republican, but I am poor" speech. In what is perhaps the most famous speech in the history of early American Jewish oratory, Nones, the French-born Revolutionary War patriot and veteran who fought under the command of the Polish General Pulaski against the British, inverts the scathing epithets hurled at him by his Federalist enemies to defend the dignity and constitutional rights of Jews in the United States. Not only is this printed version in the collection, but so too is the original court petition, written on vellum, and signed by Nones's creditors. In it, Nones attests that he is not bankrupt and had paid off the very debts that he references in that speech. Other newspaper accounts, pamphlets, and broadsides bear witness to painful episodes of resistance to Jewish civil rights such as occurred during the legislative debates over the Maryland Jew Bill to rectify the exclusion of Jews from serving in that state's assembly, political infighting during the Jacksonian era, and in other moments of anti-Jewish antagonism, both social and political, such as the Mortara Affair in 1858, an international uproar caused by the Vatican's defense of the secret baptism of a Jewish infant who later was taken from his parents to be raised as a Catholic. There are also numerous volumes and individual issues of important Jewish periodicals such as Leeser's Occident as well as the American Israelite, edited by Isaac Mayer Wise, the leader of the American Reform movement of Judaism, and Leeser's principal adversary in the battle over the character of Jewish religious practice in the United States. 1 Jonathan Sarna, "An Eighteenth Century Hebrew Lu'ah from Pennsylvania," American Jewish Archives Journal 57 (2005), 25-27. 2 Murray Friedman, ed., When Philadelphia Was the Capital of Jewish America (Philadelphia: Balch Institute Press, 1993). Scope and contents note originally appeared in a slightly different form in: Arthur Kiron, "Introduction," in Constellations of Atlantic Jewish History, 1555-1890: The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica, ed. Arthur Kiron (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).

Download or read book When Scotland Was Jewish written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.

Download or read book Prominent Families of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Judaism Volume 2 The Hellenistic Age written by William David Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

Download or read book Historical Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Digital Judaism written by Heidi A. Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, contributors consider the ways that Jewish communities and users of new media negotiate their uses of digital technologies in light of issues related to religious identity, community and authority. Digital Judaism presents a broad analysis of how and why various Jewish groups negotiate with digital culture in particular ways, situating such observations within a wider discourse of how Jewish groups throughout history have utilized communication technologies to maintain their Jewish identities across time and space. Chapters address issues related to the negotiation of authority between online users and offline religious leaders and institutions not only within ultra-Orthodox communities, but also within the broader Jewish religious culture, taking into account how Jewish engagement with media in Israel and the diaspora raises a number of important issues related to Jewish community and identity. Featuring recent scholarship by leading and emerging scholars of Judaism and media, Digital Judaism is an invaluable resource for researchers in new media, religion and digital culture.

Download or read book The Writing on the Wall written by Sharon Liberman Mintz and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Valmadonna Trust Library is the world's single most important and extensive private collection of Hebrew books. Assembled over the better part of the twentieth century by Mr. Jack Lunzer, the indefatigable Custodian of the Library, the collection comprises thousands of rare volumes from virtually all corners of the Jewish world and has stimulated a remarkable level of fascination and admiration among scholars and laypeople alike. In addition, there is a veritable "collection within a collection" of more than 550 broadsides; primarily single sheets of paper printed on one side for public distribution or posting. While broadsides have long served as important documentary sources of information for those who study the history of the Jews in the early modern era, there has been a marked paucity of systematic scholarly treatments of Judaic broadsides as a genre in their own right. Leading academics whose areas of research have in the past made extensive use of the types of material found in the Valmadonna Collection have contributed scholarly essays which provide the reader with a richer contextualization and a fuller understanding of the materials.The 554 catalogue entries provide essential information and concise descriptions of each broadside in the Collection. Thirty-six highlighted broadsides feature full-color images and more comprehensive narratives, augmented by English translations for the benefit of the lay reader. Additional material includes a numerical conversion chart for the cross-referencing of catalogue numbers with preexisting Valmadonna Collection reference numbers, an index of first lines of poems, and a general index. The publisher has made full-color high-resolution images of all the broadsides available on a complementary, dedicated website (valmadonnabroadsides.com), enabling scholars to undertake their own detailed examinations of these broadsides, thus facilitating a more nuanced comprehension and an even greater appreciation of the Collection as a whole. From these examinations, new perspectives will emerge and new connections will be seen. This volume will serve, not only as a lasting testament to this storied collection and its venerable collector, but also as a valuable resource that inspires further learning, research, and expansion of knowledge for years to come.

Download or read book The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity written by Aby Warburg and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.