{"product_id":"early-modern-jewry-9780691152882","title":"Early Modern Jewry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, this title examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest of society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council \"Brave, stimulating, highly erudite, and informative.\"--Moshe Rosman, Jewish Review of Books \"Ruderman's provocative thesis marks a scholarly watershed. It reopens and complicates the question of when modern Jewish history began, and suggests that far-reaching but underappreciated trends analogous to those traced in this book have already inaugurated a postmodern era of Jewish history.\"--Lawrence Grossman, Forward \"David B. Ruderman plunges into one of the central debates in the writing of Jewish history... When we think of the history of Europe, it is in terms derived from the experience of Christians and Christianity... But does this familiar timeline apply to the history of the Jews? ... Early Modern Jewry will certainly help to shape future debates over the ways we write and interpret Jewish history.\"--Adam Kirsch, Tablet Magazine \"Ruderman's learned and fluently written book presents a thought-provoking interpretation of the period beginning with the Spanish expulsion of 1492, which set into motion the extraordinary communities of Iberian Jewry--and much else besides--and stretching forward to the onset of modernity.\"--Yehudah Mirsky, Jewish Ideas Daily \"Ruderman has given readers fascinated by Jewish history much material upon which to ponder.\"--Benjamin Ivry, Forward \"David Ruderman ... provides a masterful synthesis of the vast scholarship of the past 30 years... This book is an important addition to any university library.\"--Harvey Sukenic, AJL Newsletter \"Its thought-provoking discussion of the early modern period in Jewish history, the notes and bibliography providing additional information, and the extensive appendix discussing various historiographical interpretations of early modernity make this book indispensable for both students and teachers of early modern and modern Jewish history alike, as well as for those more generally interested in Jewish history. Ruderman's study will decisively shape future discussions about early modern Jewish history and the beginnings of modernity.\"--Rebekka Voss, H-Net Reviews \"David Ruderman has produced an admirable synthesis of the latest research on early modem Jewish history, while offering a cogent assessment of the historiography of the term 'early modern' and of the role of Jews in European and world history between the medieval and modem eras. The clear structure and approachable writing of Early Modern Jewry make it an excellent resource.\"--Gayle K. Brunelle, Canadian Journal of History \"[T]he book greatly advances scholarship toward a more holistic, multidisciplinary approach to Jewish history during this very dynamic epoch... His work is a great introductory monograph for students and emerging scholars in early modern Jewish studies, providing an excellent foundation of knowledge to build upon for future research.\"--Barry Stiefel, Sixteenth Century Journal \"Ruderman also discusses a number of crucial works on early modern Jewish history, making his study more accessible to novice readers. His extensive bibliography may serve as a useful starting point for the reader's own exploration of early modern Jewry\"--.Pnina M. Rubesh, European Legacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaps x  Introduction 1      Chapter One?: Jews on the Move 23  The Mobility of Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Period 24  Jewish Migration to Italy and the Ottoman Empire 26  Jewish Migration to Eastern Europe 29  Converso Migration 34  The Social Consequences of Jewish Mobility 37  Did Jewish Mobility Engender Cultural Productivity? 41      Chapter Two: Comm unal Cohesion 57  Italian Communal Developments 59  Converso Communal Organizations: Leghorn and Amsterdam 65  Jewish Communal Organization in Germanic Lands 74  The Jewish Community under Ottoman Rule 81  Jewish Self-Government in Eastern Europe 86  Some Comparative Observations 93      Chapter Three?: Knowledge Explosion 99  The Printed Book and the Creation of a Connected Jewish Culture 99  Further Consequences of the Printing of Jewish Books 103  Christian Hebraists and Their Judaic Publications 111  The Expansion of Cultural Horizons 120  Jewish Medical Students at the University 125      Chapter Four: Crisis of Rabbinic Authority 133  Locating the Beginnings of a Jewish Crisis in the Seventeenth Century 136  The Sabbatean Turmoil of the Eighteenth Century 140  Sabbateanism and the Birth of \"Orthodoxy\" in the Eighteenth Century 146  Sabbateanism and the Other Crises of Early Modernity: Some Tentative Conclusions 155      Chapter Five?: Mingled Identities 159  The Ambiguity of Converso Lives 160  Sabbatean Syncretism 163  The Conflicting Loyalties of Christian Hebraists 173  The Mediating Roles of Jewish Converts to Christianity 180  Jewish Christians and Christian Jews 186      Chapter Six: Toward Modernity: Some Final Thoughts 191  When Does the Early Modern Period Begin and When Does It End? 193  Early Haskalah, Early Modernity, and Haskalah Reconsidered 198  Viewing the Modern Era in the Light of the Early Modern 202  Appendix: H istoriographical Re flec tions 207  Jonathan Israel's Interpretation of Early  Modern Jewish Culture 207  Jewish Historians on the Early Modern Period 214  Early Modernity in European and World Historiography 220      Acknowledgments 227  Notes 231  Bibliography of Secondary Works 287  Index 319","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865526415703,"sku":"9780691152882","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691152882.jpg?v=1722274395","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/early-modern-jewry-9780691152882","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}