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Author : Shlomo Simonsohn
Publisher : Ktav Publishing House
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053161975
Author : Edna Nahshon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004173354
While a frequently used term, Jewish Theatre has become a contested concept that defies precise definition. Is it theatre by Jews? For Jews? About Jews? Though there are no easy answers for these questions, "Jewish Theatre: A Global View," contributes greatly to the conversation by offering an impressive collection of original essays written by an international cadre of noted scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel. The essays discuss historical and current texts and performance practices, covering a wide gamut of genres and traditions.
Author : Shlomo Simonsohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015000601487
Author : Shlomo Simonsohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4936500
A systematic documentary history of the Jews of Lombardy. The records reflect the contacts between the local community and groups of Jewish exiles from France, Germany, Spain and the East, as well as between Jews and non-Jews. The documents are assembled from non-Jewish archives which until now have rarely been utilized for this purpose. The documents are accompanied by English summaries.
Author : Erith Jaffe-Berg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317164012
Drawing on published collections and also manuscripts from Mantuan archives, Commedia dell' arte and the Mediterranean locates commedia dell' arte as a performance form reflective of its cultural crucible in the Mediterranean. The study provides a broad perspective on commedia dell’ arte as an expression of the various cultural, gender and language communities in Italy during the early-modern period, and explores the ways in which the art form offers a platform for reflection on power and cultural exchange. While highlighting the prevalence of Mediterranean crossings in the scenarios of commedia dell' arte, this book examines the way in which actors embodied characters from across the wider Mediterranean region. The presence of Mediterranean minority groups such as Arabs, Armenians, Jews and Turks within commedia dell' arte is marked on stage and 'backstage' where they were collaborators in the creative process. In addition, gendered performances by the first female actors participated in 'staging' the Mediterranean by using the female body as a canvas for cartographical imaginings. By focusing attention on the various communities involved in the making of theatre, a central preoccupation of the book is to question the dynamics of 'exchange' as it materialized within a spectrum inclusive of both cultural collaboration but also of taxation and coercion.
Author : Giuseppe Veltri,Gianfranco Miletto
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004222250
Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference organized in Mantua and consists of contributions on Moscato and his intellectual world.
Author : Don Harrán
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198162715
Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1627) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition. Working for the Gonzaga dukes in Mantua, yet remaining faithful to his own religious community, Rossi has a biography fraught with difficult and often exciting questions of socio-cultural order. How Rossi solved, or appears to have solved, the problem of conflicting interests is a subject worthy of inquiry, not only because we want to know more about Rossi, but also because Rossi can stand as a paradigm for other Jewish figures who, contemporary with him, moved between different cultures.
Author : Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1967-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0231088485
Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.
Author : Robert C. Davis,Benjamin Ravid
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0801865123
The constraints of the ghetto and the concomitant interaction of various Jewish traditions produced a remarkable cultural flowering.
Author : Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786949837
The reputed wealth and benevolence of the Portuguese Jews of early modern Amsterdam attracted many impoverished people to the city, both ex-Conversos from the Iberian peninsula and Jews from many other countries. In describing the consequences of that migration in terms of demography, admission policy, charitable institutions—public and private—philanthropy and daily life, and the dynamics of the relationship between the rich and the poor, Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld adds a nuanced new dimension to the understanding of Jewish life in the early modern period.
Author : Lynette Bowring,Rebecca Cypess,Liza Malamut
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253060075
Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy evaluates the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped this community, especially in light of the need to recognize individual experiences within minority populations. Contributors draw from rich materials, topics, and approaches as they explore the inherently diverse understandings of music in daily life, the many ways that Jewish communities conceived of music, and the reception of and responses to Jewish musical culture. Highlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.
Author : Dana E. Katz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812240856
Dana E. Katz reveals how Italian Renaissance painting became part of a policy of tolerance that deflected violence from the real world onto a symbolic world. While the rulers upheld toleration legislation governing Christian-Jewish relations, they simultaneously supported artistic commissions that perpetuated violence against Jews.
Author : Rachel Elior
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111044521
The Unknown History of Jewish Women—On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty is a comprehensive study on the history of Jewish women, which discusses their absence from the Jewish Hebrew library of the "People of the Book" and interprets their social condition in relation to their imposed ignorance and exclusion from public literacy. The book begins with a chapter on communal education for Jewish boys, which was compulsory and free of charge for the first ten years in all traditional Jewish communities. The discussion continues with the striking absence of any communal Jewish education for girls until the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the implications of this fact for twentieth-century immigration to Israel (1949-1959) The following chapters discuss the social, cultural and legal contexts of this reality of female illiteracy in the Jewish community—a community that placed a supreme value on male education. The discussion focuses on the patriarchal order and the postulations, rules, norms, sanctions and mythologies that, in antiquity and the Middle Ages, laid the religious foundations of this discriminatory reality.
Author : Daniel Jütte (Jutte)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300213423
The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge which extended into all areas of daily life. So asserts Daniel Jütte in this engrossing, vivid, and award-winning work. He maintains that the widespread acceptance and even reverence for this “economy of secrets” in premodern Europe created a highly complex and sometimes perilous space for mutual contact between Jews and Christians. Surveying the interactions between the two religious groups in a wide array of secret sciences and practices, the author relates true stories of colorful “professors of secrets” and clandestine encounters. In the process Jütte examines how our current notion of secrecy is radically different in this era of WikiLeaks, Snowden, etc., as opposed to centuries earlier when the truest, most important knowledge was generally considered to be secret by definition.
Author : Moses Rischin,John Livingston
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0814321712
In a series of nine original essays, the editors and other leading American historians bring dramatically new perspectives to bear on our understanding of the West, its Jews, and other Americans, both old and new. Whether comparing the history of the Jews of the West with the Jewish experience in the older regions of the country or bringing attention to the uniquely local aspects of the western experience, the contributors to this landmark volume perceive the West as an increasingly important and vital presence in the nation's history. The agrarians of Utah's Clarion and the cureseekers of Denver, no less than the boomers of Tucson, have been representative Americans, Jews, and westerners. Essays on the role of intermarriage, the shared encounter of immigrants and migrants, and the response to the founding of the State of Israel by western pioneer families, tell us much about the interaction of the West with our American world nation.