"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 interpre…
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…
A study on the scientific dimension of Jewish intellectual history in the early modern world.
A study on the scientific dimension of Jewish intellectual history in the early modern world.
A study on the scientific dimension of Jewish intellectual history in the early modern world.
The series Studies and Texts in Scepticism contains monographs, translations, and collected essays exploring scepticism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a set of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field - especially …
Rethinking European Jewish history
by Ruderman, David B., Cohen, Judah M., Nirenberg, David, Engel, David, Soyer, Daniel, Bodian, Miriam, Rosman, Moshe, Rosman, Murray Jay, Cohen, Jeremy, Hyman, Paula E., Mandel, Maud, Hundert, Gershon David, Ben-Shalom, Ram
fromLittman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
Europe has changed greatly in the last century. Political, social and ideological transformations have not only redrawn the map of the continent but have rewoven the fabric of its culture. These changes have nourished widespread reassessment in European historical research in te…
