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In the last two decades, Jewish historians worldwide have developed and refined the discussion of an early modern” period in Jewish culture, spanning roughly three centuries from 1500 to 1800, and have increasingly found this periodization to be a useful heuristic for interpreting historical developments. Thirty-one leading scholars both within and beyond Jewish studies advance, refine, and challenge how we understand the Jewish early modern period. The collection includes a comprehensive range of topics, beginning by examining authority structures of Jewish communities following the expulsions and migrations that reshaped the geographical contours of the Jewish world. The formation of Jewish communities, communal autonomy, and cultural representations of leadership are explored, pointing to a geographical remapping of a Jewish early modernity that can contribute to a better understanding of the integrated economic and cultural landscape of the time. The volume then moves to consider Jewish intellectual life in light of demographic, political, and technological changeespecially the advent of print culture. From there, the discussion moves to cultural and intellectual interchan

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Author

Richard I. Cohen and Natalie B. Dohrmann and Adam Shear and Elchanan Reiner (Editors)

Publisher

Hebrew Union College Press University of Pittsburgh Press Proquest

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822944331

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Judaism, Social Science