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The Making of a Medieval Bestseller
In 1277, Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil produced a concise work of accessible religious law. This handbook, 'Amudei Golah (Pillars of Exile), began as a list of religious commandments (mitzvot) meant to be recited weekly. It was divided into seven 'pillars', drawn primarily from the limbs of the human body and its activities (heart, hand, mouth, monetary transactions, etc), and dealt exclusively with laws relevant to Jews living in the Diaspora in medieval times. This handbook of religious law, written in Hebrew, became the most widespread book of its kind during the late Middle Ages within the various French- and German-speaking Jewish communities known as Ashkenaz. Nearly two hundred medieval copi...
Visual Aspects of Scribal Culture in Ashkenaz
The medieval Ashkenazi manuscripts of the Small Book of Commandments (Sefer Mitzvot Katan, or ‘SeMaK’ for short), which was written by Isaac of Corbeil, attest a scribal culture in which rabbinical knowledge and piety were combined with creative freedom in manuscript design. This study is concerned with the creation, composition and circulation of manuscripts of the SeMaK and concentrates on the book as an artefact. The focus of the author’s attention is the manuscripts’ material nature, their artistic embellishment and the personal touches that scribes added to them. With the act of writing a text and decorating a SeMaK manuscript, they ‘appropriated’ the text, so to speak, givi...
"Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe
In "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe, Ivan G. Marcus proposes a new paradigm for understanding how Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," was composed and how it extended an earlier Byzantine rabbinic tradition of authorship into medieval European Jewish culture.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion
Hailed by Library Journal as the "best ready-reference access point to the Jewish religion," and as "essential" by CHOICE in its First Edition, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion has been the go-to resource for students, scholars, and researchers in Judaic Studies since its 1997 publication. Now, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, Second Edition focuses on recent and changing rituals in the Jewish community that have come to the fore since the 1997 publication of the First Edition, including the growing trend of baby-naming ceremonies and the founding of gay/lesbian synagogues Under the editorship of Adele Berlin, nearly 200 internationally renowned scholars have created...
Flipping Out?
The Jewish community has changed over the past four decades for many reasons, prominent among them the phenomenon of large numbers of students spending a year after high school studying Torah full time in Israel. The Results of this "Year in Israel" can be felt in many synagogues and homes, with a good deal of increased ritual observance and dedication to Torah study û the much discussed "Shift to the Right" Many questions arise from these changes. Have these students been brainwashed'? Has their primary education so failed them that a single year in Israel is more influential than over a decade of American schooling? Do only students with psychological problems change? And how long do these religious shifts last? These questions and many more, including the broader communal implications of this phenomenon, are addressed by three experts in Flipping Out? Myth or Fact: The Impact of the "Year in Israel". Book jacket.
Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory
Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory uncovers the unstated assumptions and expectations of scribes and scholars who fashioned editions from manuscripts of Jewish mystical literature. This study offers a theory of kabbalistic textuality in which the material book the printed page no less than handwritten manuscripts serves as the site for textual dialogue between Jewish mystics of different periods and locations. The refashioning of the text through the process of reading and commenting that takes place on the page in the margins and between the lines blurs the boundaries between the traditionally defined roles of author, reader, commentator and editor. This study shows that kabbalists ...
Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France
A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the changing paradigms in the research and history of Jews and Christians in medieval Europe, discussing law, scholarly pursuits, art, culture, and poetry.
Wirtschaftsgeschichte der mittelalterlichen Juden
Christian perceptions of Jewish economic activity in the middle ages / Giacomo Todeschini -- Taking interest from non-Jews : main problems in traditional Jewish law / Hans-Georg von Mutius -- The Jews in Byzantium and the Eastern Mediterranean : economic activities from the thirteenth to the mid-fifteenth century / David Jacoby -- The Jews of Sicily and Southern Italy : economic activity / David Abulafia -- The status and economic activity of Jews in the Venetian dominions during the fifteenth century / Reinhold C. Mueller -- Church articles : pawns in the hands of Jewish moneylenders / Joseph Shatzmiller -- Medieval "pigeonholes" : the Jewish account books from Vesoul and medieval bookkeeping practices / Annegret Holtmann -- Juden als Munzmeister, Zollpachter und furstliche Finanzberater im mittelalterlichen Aschkenas / Markus J. Wenninger -- "Was der Arme benotigt, bist du verpflichtet zu geben" : Forschungsansatze zur Armenfursorge in Aschkenas im hohen und spaten Mittelalter / Rainer Barzen -- Mobilitat und Sittsamkeit : judische Frauen im Wirtschaftsleben des spatmittelalterlichen Aschkenas / Martha Keil -- Economic activities of German Jews in the middle ages / Michael Toch.
Jews and Muslims in the Islamic World
Essays on the symbiotic relation ship between Jews and Muslims, including their history, social life, architecture, religion, music, and literature.
