Jewish Communal Autonomy And Institutional Memory In Venetian Crete

Author : Martin Borýsek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004547421

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Jewish Communal Autonomy and Institutional Memory in Venetian Crete by Martin Borýsek Pdf

In the first book-length study of Takkanot Kandiyah, Martin Borýsek analyses this fascinating corpus of Hebrew texts written between 1228 –1583 by the leaders of the Jewish community in Candia, the capital of Venetian Crete. Collected in the 16th century by the Cretan Jewish historian Elijah Capsali, the communal byelaws offer a unique perspective on the history of a vibrant, culturally diverse Jewish community during three centuries of Venetian rule. As well as confronting practical problems such as deciding whether Christian wine can be made kosher by adding honey, or stopping irresponsible Jewish youths disturbing religious services by setting off fireworks in the synagogue, Takkanot Kandiyah presents valuable material for the study of communal autonomy and institutional memory in pre-modern Jewish society.

Author : Rena N. Lauer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812295917

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Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete by Rena N. Lauer Pdf

When Venice conquered Crete in the early thirteenth century, a significant population of Jews lived in the capital and main port city of Candia. This community grew, diversified, and flourished both culturally and economically throughout the period of Venetian rule, and although it adhered to traditional Jewish ways of life, the community also readily engaged with the broader population and the island's Venetian colonial government. In Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete, Rena N. Lauer tells the story of this unusual and little-known community through the lens of its flexible use of the legal systems at its disposal. Grounding the book in richly detailed studies of individuals and judicial cases—concerning matters as prosaic as taxation and as dramatic as bigamy and murder—Lauer brings the Jews of Candia vibrantly to life. Despite general rabbinic disapproval of such behavior elsewhere in medieval Europe, Crete's Jews regularly turned not only to their own religious courts but also to the secular Venetian judicial system. There they aired disputes between family members, business partners, spouses, and even the leaders of their community. And with their use of secular justice as both symptom and cause, Lauer contends, Crete's Jews grew more open and flexible, confident in their identity and experiencing little of the anti-Judaism increasingly suffered by their coreligionists in Western Europe.

Author : Bea Lewkowicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 0853035792

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The Jewish Community of Salonika by Bea Lewkowicz Pdf

This book is a pioneering study of the often forgotten Sephardi voices of the Holocaust. It is an account of the Sephardi Jewish community of the Greek city of Salonika, which at one point numbered 80,000 members, but which was almost completely annihilated during the German occupation of Greece in the Second World War. Through her systematic series of interviews with the remnants of this once-flourishing community, the author reawakens the communal memory and is able to show how individual identities and memories can be seen to have been shaped by historical experience. She traces the radical demographic and political changes Salonika itself has undergone, in particular the ethnic and religious composition of the city's population, and she interprets the narratives of the Salonikan Jewish survivors in the context of this changing landscape of memory and as part of contemporary Greece. With the vivid power of oral history and ethnography, this book highlights a significant aspect of the Jewish experience.

Author : William David Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521219299

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The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age by William David Davies Pdf

Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

Author : Bryan Cheyette
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198809951

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The Ghetto: a Very Short Introduction by Bryan Cheyette Pdf

For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European "ghettos", which enabled genocide, were crudely rehabilitated by the Nazis during World War Two as if they were part of a benign medieval tradition. In the United States, the word ghetto was routinely applied to endemic black ghettoization which has lasted from 1920 until the present. Outside of America "the ghetto" has been universalized as the incarnation of class difference, or colonialism, or apartheid, and has been applied to segregated cities and countries throughout the world. In this Very Short Introduction Bryan Cheyette unpicks the extraordinarily complex layers of contrasting meanings that have accrued over five hundred years to ghettos, considering their different settings across the globe. He considers core questions of why and when urban, racial, and colonial ghettos have appeared, and who they contain. Exploring their various identities, he shows how different ghettos interrelate, or are contrasted, across time and space, or even in the same place. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Matthias B. Lehmann,Jessica M. Marglin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253047991

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Jews and the Mediterranean by Matthias B. Lehmann,Jessica M. Marglin Pdf

What does an understanding of Jewish history contribute to the study of the Mediterranean, and what can Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of Jewish history? Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Ashkenazi Jews meet in the Mediterranean region. By focusing on the specificity of the Jewish experience, the essays gathered in this volume emphasize human agency and culture over the length of Mediterranean history. This collection draws attention to what made Jewish people distinctive and warns against facile notions of Mediterranean connectivity, diversity, fluidity, and hybridity, presenting a new assessment of the Jewish experience in the Mediterranean.

Author : Zvi Stampfer,Amir Ashur
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004422179

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Language, Gender and Law in the Judaeo-Islamic Milieu by Zvi Stampfer,Amir Ashur Pdf

The articles in this volume focus on the legal, linguistic, historical and literary roles of Jewish women in the Islamic world of the Middle Ages, drawing heavily on manuscript evidence from the Cairo Genizah.

Author : Argyri Dermitzaki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004499546

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Shrines in a Fluid Space: The Shaping of New Holy Sites in the Ionian Islands, the Peloponnese and Crete under Venetian Rule (14th-16th Centuries) by Argyri Dermitzaki Pdf

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In Shrines in a Fluid Space: The Shaping of New Holy Sites in the Ionian Islands, the Peloponnese and Crete under Venetian Rule (14th-16th Centuries), Argyri Dermitzaki reconstructs the devotional experiences within the Greek realm of the Venetian Stato da Mar of Western European pilgrims sailing to Jerusalem. The author traces the evolution of the various forms of cultic sites and the perception of them as nodes of a wider network of the pilgrims’ ‘holy topography’. She scrutinises travelogues in conjunction with archaeological, visual and historical evidence and offers a study of the cultic phenomena and sites invested with exceptional meaning at the main ports of call of the pilgrims’ galleys in the Ionian Sea, the Peloponnese and Crete.

Author : Katherine L. Jansen,Joanna Drell,Frances Andrews
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812206067

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Medieval Italy by Katherine L. Jansen,Joanna Drell,Frances Andrews Pdf

Medieval Italy gathers together an unparalleled selection of newly translated primary sources from the central and later Middle Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse cultural landscape of urban towers and fortified castles, the spirituality of Saints Francis and Clare, and the vernacular poetry of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The texts highlight the continuities with the medieval Latin West while simultaneously emphasizing the ways in which Italy was exceptional, particularly for its cities that drove Mediterranean trade, its new communal forms of government, the impact of the papacy's temporal claims on the central peninsula, and the richly textured religious life of the mainland and its islands. A unique feature of this volume is its incorporation of the southern part of the peninsula and Sicily—the glittering Norman court at Palermo, the multicultural emporium of the south, and the kingdoms of Frederick II—into a larger narrative of Italian history. Including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and Lombard sources, the documents speak in ethnically and religiously differentiated voices, while providing wider chronological and geographical coverage than previously available. Rich in interdisciplinary texts and organized to enable the reader to focus by specific region, topic, or period, this is a volume that will be an essential resource for anyone with a professional or private interest in the history, religion, literature, politics, and built environment of Italy from ca. 1000 to 1400.

Author : Jay R. Berkovitz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004417403

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Law’s Dominion by Jay R. Berkovitz Pdf

In Law’s Dominion, Jay Berkovitz offers a new history of early modern Jewry. Set in the city of Metz, legal sources reveal a robust community able to integrate religion and civic consciousness while navigating competing Jewish and French jurisdictions.

Author : [Anonymus AC00538411]
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015082122055

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Encyclopædia Britannica : a new survey of universal knowledge. 8. Edward to Extract by [Anonymus AC00538411] Pdf

Author : Francisco Apellániz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004431737

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Breaching the Bronze Wall: Franks at Mamluk and Ottoman Courts and Markets by Francisco Apellániz Pdf

Breaching the Bronze Wall deals with the idea that the words of honorable Muslims constitutes proof and that written documents and the words of non-Muslims are of inferior value. Thus, foreign merchants in cities such as Istanbul, Damascus or Alexandria could barely prove any claim, as neither their contracts nor their words were of any value if countered by Muslims. Francisco Apellániz explores how both groups labored to overcome the ‘biases against non-Muslims’ in Mamlūk Egypt’s and Syria’s courts and markets (14th-15th c.) and how the Ottoman conquest (1517) imposed a new, orthodox view on the problem. The book slips into the Middle Eastern archive and the Ottoman Dīvān, and scrutinizes sharīʿa’s intricacies and their handling by consuls, dragomans, qaḍīs and other legal actors.

Author : Benjamin Braude
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1588268659

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Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire by Benjamin Braude Pdf

How did the vast Ottoman empire, stretching from the Balkans to the Sahara, endure for more than four centuries despite its great ethnic and religious diversity? The classic work on this plural society, the two-volume Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire, offered seminal reinterpretations of the empire¿s core institutions and has sparked more than a generation of innovative work since it was first published in 1982. This new, abridged, and reorganized edition, with a substantial new introduction and bibliography covering issues and scholarship of the past thirty years, has been carefully designed to be accessible to a wider readership.

Author : David B. Ruderman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691152882

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Early Modern Jewry by David B. Ruderman Pdf

Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest of society. Looking at how Jewish settlements in the early modern period were linked to one another in fascinating ways, he shows how Jews were communicating with each other and were more aware of their economic, social, and religious connections than ever before. Ruderman explores five crucial and powerful characteristics uniting Jewish communities: a mobility leading to enhanced contacts between Jews of differing backgrounds, traditions, and languages, as well as between Jews and non-Jews; a heightened sense of communal cohesion throughout all Jewish settlements that revealed the rising power of lay oligarchies; a knowledge explosion brought about by the printing press, the growing interest in Jewish books by Christian readers, an expanded curriculum of Jewish learning, and the entrance of Jewish elites into universities; a crisis of rabbinic authority expressed through active messianism, mystical prophecy, radical enthusiasm, and heresy; and the blurring of religious identities, impacting such groups as conversos, Sabbateans, individual converts to Christianity, and Christian Hebraists. In describing an early modern Jewish culture, Early Modern Jewry reconstructs a distinct epoch in history and provides essential background for understanding the modern Jewish experience.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004428874

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Cultures of Empire: Rethinking Venetian Rule, 1400–1700 by Anonim Pdf

This book investigates perceptions, modes, and techniques of Venetian rule in the early modern Eastern Mediterranean (1400–1700) between colonial empire, negotiated and pragmatic rule; between soft touch and exploitation; in contexts of former and continuous imperial belongings; and with a focus on representations and modes of rule as well as on colonial daily realities and connectivities.