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Author Ruderman, David B

Title Early modern Jewry : a new cultural history / David B. Ruderman
Published Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 326 pages) : maps
Contents Jews on the move -- Communal cohesion -- Knowledge explosion -- Crisis of rabbinic authority -- Mingled identities -- Toward modernity: some final thoughts
Summary 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 powe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Europa gnd
Subject Jews -- Intellectual life.
Jews -- Europe -- History
Jews -- Social networks -- Europe -- History
Jews -- History -- 70-1789.
Jewish learning and scholarship -- Europe
Judaism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800
Judaism -- History.
Judaism -- Europe -- History
Rabbis -- Biography
11.20 Judaism: general.
15.70 history of Europe.
HISTORY -- Jewish.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Intellectual life
Jewish learning and scholarship
Jews
Jews -- Intellectual life
Judaism
Judaism -- Doctrines
Rabbis
Kultur
Intelligenz
Juden
Judentum
Geistesleben
Jews.
Social networks.
Cultural history.
Juif -- réseau social -- société (milieu humain) -- Europe -- 15e s. (fin) -- 18e s.
judaïsme -- Europe -- 15e s. (fin) -- 18e s.
Juif -- vie intellectuelle -- Europe -- 15e s. (fin) -- 18e s.
Judar -- intellektuellt liv -- historia -- Europa.
Judendom -- lärosatser -- verk före 1800.
Judendom -- historia -- Europa.
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726
Subject Europe
Europa
Europe.
Juden -- Europa -- Geschichte Neuzeit.
Juden.
Genre/Form Biographies
Early works
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009034692
ISBN 9781400834693
1400834694
9780691152882
0691152888