Download or read book Iudaei in Polonia written by Andrzej K. Paluch and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discourse on the State of the Jews written by Simone Luzzatto and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published “appresso Gioanne Calleoni” under the title “Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice.” It was dedicated to the Doge of Venice and his counsellors, who are labelled “lovers of Truth.” The author of the book was a certain Simone (Simḥa) Luzzatto, a native of Venice, where he lived and died, serving as rabbi for over fifty years during the course of the seventeenth century. Luzzatto’s political thesis is simple and, at the same time, temerarious, if not revolutionary: Venice can put an end to its political decline, he argues, by offering the Jews a monopoly on overseas commercial activity. This plan is highly recommendable because the Jews are “wellsuited for trade,” much more so than others (such as “foreigners,” for example). The rabbi opens his argument by recalling that trade and usury are the only occupations permitted to Jews. Within the confines of their historical situation, the Venetian Jews became particularly skilled at trade with partners from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Luzzatto’s argument is that this talent could be put at the service of the Venetian government in order to maintain – or, more accurately, recover – its political importance as an intermediary between East and West. He was the first to define the role of the Jews on the basis of their economic and social functions, disregarding the classic categorisation of Judaism’s alleged privileged religious status in world history. Nonetheless, going beyond the socio-economic arguments of the book, it is essential to point out Luzzatto’s resort to sceptical strategies in order to plead in defence of the Venetian Jews. It is precisely his philosophical and political scepticism that makes Luzzatto’s texts so unique. This edition aims to grant access to his works and thought to English-speaking readers and scholars. By approaching his texts from this point of view, the editors hope to open a new path in research into Jewish culture and philosophy that will enable other scholars to develop new directions and new perspectives, stressing the interpenetration between Jews and the surrounding Christian and secular cultures.

Download or read book The Call of Albion written by Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at British–Polish literary pre-Enlightenment contacts, The Call of Albion explores how the reverberations of British religious upheavals in distant Poland–Lithuania surprisingly served to strengthen the impact of English, Scottish, and Welsh works on Polish literature. The book argues that Jesuits played a key role in that process. The book provides an insightful account of how the transmission, translation, and recontextualization of key publications by British Protestants and Catholics served Calvinist and Jesuit agendas, while occasionally bypassing barriers between confessionally defined textual communities and inspiring Polish–Lithuanian political thought, as well as literary tastes.

Download or read book Das neue Ghetto written by Jürgen Heyde and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Auf den ersten Blick scheint »Ghetto« vor allem eine Ortsbezeichnung zu sein. Ursprünglich hieß so der Wohnbezirk, den der Senat von Venedig 1516 für die jüdische Bevölkerung festlegte. Zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs richteten die deutschen Besatzer in vielen Städten Ost- und Südosteuropas erneut Bezirke ein, in die Juden zwangsweise einquartiert wurden. Außer dem äußeren Zwang gibt es kaum etwas, was beide Arten von »Ghetto« verbindet. Der Begriff funktioniert bis heute in einer Vielzahl von Kontexten, in ganz unterschiedlichen Regionen der Welt, auch ohne Bezug zur jüdischen Bevölkerung. Gemeinsam ist allen diesen Zuschreibungen, dass der Begriff »Ghetto« starke Emotionen in sich trägt und zum Ausdruck bringt. Überwiegend negativ besetzt, markiert er die Bewohner als eine Randgruppe, verweist auf Ungleichheit, Ausgrenzung und soziales Elend. Er suggeriert aber auch eine gewisse Zusammengehörigkeit der Bewohner, die aus einer Innenperspektive auch als Aneignung dieses Raumes verstanden werden kann. Jürgen Heyde untersucht, wie der Begriff im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert von Italien nach Mitteleuropa wanderte und dort zu einem Zentralbegriff für die Suche nach jüdischer Identität wurde." -- Back cover.

Download or read book Hugh Gibson and a Controversy Over Polish Jewish Relations After World War I written by Andrzej Kapiszewski and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents documents describing the activities of the first American ambassador in independent Poland, Hugh Gibson, in the period of the Paris Peace Conference, and documents on the Minorities Treaty, against the background of tension between the Polish and Jewish communities in the U.S. related to the situation of the Jews in Poland. Jewish American circles (led by Louis Marshall) considered Gibson an antisemite who distorted the facts in favor of the Poles. Deals also with Morgenthau's mission; he was sent to Poland by the American government to investigate the situation of the Jews. Analyzing documents and Gibson's diary, concludes that although he lacked understanding of the extent of antisemitism in Poland and of its possible consequences, it is difficult to accept the thesis of his antisemitism.

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Download or read book Blood Libel written by Magda Teter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark history of the antisemitic blood libel myth—how it took root in Europe, spread with the invention of the printing press, and persists today. Accusations that Jews ritually killed Christian children emerged in the mid-twelfth century, following the death of twelve-year-old William of Norwich, England, in 1144. Later, continental Europeans added a destructive twist: Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood. While charges that Jews poisoned wells and desecrated the communion host waned over the years, the blood libel survived. Initially blood libel stories were confined to monastic chronicles and local lore. But the development of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century expanded the audience and crystallized the vocabulary, images, and “facts” of the blood libel, providing a lasting template for hate. Tales of Jews killing Christians—notably Simon of Trent, a toddler whose body was found under a Jewish house in 1475—were widely disseminated using the new technology. Following the paper trail across Europe, from England to Italy to Poland, Magda Teter shows how the blood libel was internalized and how Jews and Christians dealt with the repercussions. The pattern established in early modern Europe still plays out today. In 2014 the Anti-Defamation League appealed to Facebook to take down a page titled “Jewish Ritual Murder.” The following year white supremacists gathered in England to honor Little Hugh of Lincoln as a sacrificial victim of the Jews. Based on sources in eight countries and ten languages, Blood Libel captures the long shadow of a pernicious myth.

Download or read book Erasmus and the Other written by Nathan Ron and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how Erasmus viewed non-Christians and different races, including Muslims, Jews, the indigenous people of the Americas, and Africans. Nathan Ron argues that Erasmus was devoted to Christian Eurocentrism and not as tolerant as he is often portrayed. Erasmus’ thought is situated vis-à-vis the thought of contemporaries such as the cosmographer and humanist Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini who became Pope Pius II; the philosopher, scholar, and Cardinal, Nicholas of Cusa; and the Dominican missionary and famous defender of the Native Americans, Bartolomé Las Casas. Additionally, the relatively moderate attitude toward Islam which was demonstrated by Michael Servetus, Sebastian Franck, and Sebastian Castellio is analyzed in comparison with Erasmus’ harsh attitude toward Islam/Turks.

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Download or read book Epistol Obscurorum Virorum written by Johannes Crotus Rubeanus and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Historiarum Poloniae Ab Excessu Vladislai Iv Ad Pacem Olivensem Usque Libri Ix Seu Annales Regnante Joanne Casimiro Ab 1648 Usque Ad 1660 Auctore written by Laurentius Johannes Rudawski and published by . This book was released on 1755 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abt Materialien und Dokumente 165 v written by Christian Freiherr von Wolff and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Socrates or on Human Knowledge written by Simone Luzzatto and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates, Or On Human Knowledge, published in Venice in 1651, is the only work written by a Jew that contains so far the promise of a genuinely sceptical investigation into the validity of human certainties. Simone Luzzatto masterly developed this book as a pièce of theatre where Socrates, as main actor, has the task to demonstrate the limits and weaknesses of the human capacity to acquire knowledge without being guided by revelation. He achieved this goal by offering an overview of the various and contradictory gnosiological opinions disseminated since ancient times: the divergence of views, to which he addressed the most attention, prevented him from giving a fixed definition of the nature of the cognitive process. This obliged him to come to the audacious conclusion of neither affirming nor denying anything concerning human knowledge, and finally of suspending his judgement altogether. This work unfortunately had little success in Luzzatto’s lifetime, and was subsequently almost forgotten. The absence of substantial evidence from his contemporaries and that of his epistolary have thus increased the difficulty of tracing not only its legacy in the history of philosophical though, but also of understanding the circumstances surrounding the writing of his Socrates. The present edition will be a preliminary study aiming to shed some light on the philosophical and historical value of this work’s translation, indeed it will provide a broader readership with the opportunity to access this immensely complicated work and also to grasp some aspects of the composite intellectual framework and admirable modernity of Venetian Jewish culture in the ghetto.

Download or read book Franco Gallia written by Francis Hotoman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Franco-Gallia by Francis Hotoman