Ancient and Medieval Jewish History

Ancient and Medieval Jewish History
Title Ancient and Medieval Jewish History PDF eBook
Author Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher
Pages 632
Release 1972
Genre History
ISBN

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Mothers and Children

Mothers and Children
Title Mothers and Children PDF eBook
Author Elisheva Baumgarten
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 312
Release 2004
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9780691091662

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This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. Elisheva Baumgarten draws on a rich trove of primary sources to give a full portrait of medieval Jewish family life during the period of childhood from birth to the beginning of formal education at age seven. Illustrating the importance of understanding Jewish practice in the context of Christian society and recognizing the shared foundations in both societies, Baumgarten's examination of Jewish and Christian practices and attitudes is explicitly comparative. Her analysis is also wideranging, covering nearly every aspect of home life and childrearing, including pregnancy, midwifery, birth and initiation rituals, nursing, sterility, infanticide, remarriage, attitudes toward mothers and fathers, gender hierarchies, divorce, widowhood, early education, and the place of children in the home, synagogue, and community. A richly detailed and deeply researched contribution to our understanding of the relationship between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors, Mothers and Children provides a key analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz.

Mistress of the Art of Death

Mistress of the Art of Death
Title Mistress of the Art of Death PDF eBook
Author Ariana Franklin
Publisher Penguin
Pages 404
Release 2007-02-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1101206756

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The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition." In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed doors of the country's churches, the killer prepares to strike again.

From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism

From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism
Title From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism PDF eBook
Author Robert Chazan
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 271
Release 2016-12-24
Genre History
ISBN 1107152461

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This book traces the hardening of Christian attitudes to Jews, Judiasm and their history during the second half of the Middle Ages.

The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender

The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender
Title The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender PDF eBook
Author Julie L. Mell
Publisher Springer
Pages 346
Release 2017-10-14
Genre History
ISBN 1137397780

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This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. It traces how and why this narrative was constructed as a philosemitic narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in response to the rise of political antisemitism. This book also documents why it is a myth for medieval Europe, and illuminates how changes in Jewish history change our understanding of European history. Each chapter offers a novel interpretation of central topics, such as the usury debate, commercial contracts, and moral literature on money and value to demonstrate how the revision of Jewish history leads to new insights in European history.

Cultural Exchange

Cultural Exchange
Title Cultural Exchange PDF eBook
Author Joseph Shatzmiller
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 203
Release 2017-05-09
Genre History
ISBN 0691176183

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Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societies where Jews and Christians coexisted for centuries, and he synthesizes the most current research to describe the daily encounters that enabled both societies to appreciate common artistic values. Detailing the transmission of cultural sensibilities in the medieval money market and the world of Jewish money lenders, this book examines objects pawned by peasants and humble citizens, sacred relics exchanged by the clergy as security for loans, and aesthetic goods given up by the Christian well-to-do who required financial assistance. The work also explores frescoes and decorations likely painted by non-Jews in medieval and early modern Jewish homes located in Germanic lands, and the ways in which Jews hired Christian artists and craftsmen to decorate Hebrew prayer books and create liturgical objects. Conversely, Christians frequently hired Jewish craftsmen to produce liturgical objects used in Christian churches. With rich archival documentation, Cultural Exchange sheds light on the social and economic history of the creation of Jewish and Christian art, and expands the general understanding of cultural exchange in brand-new ways.

Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe

Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe
Title Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe PDF eBook
Author Robert Chazan
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 291
Release 2010-09-27
Genre History
ISBN 1139493043

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This book re-evaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, governmental exploitation and expropriation, and unceasing popular violence. Robert Chazan argues that, while Jewish life in medieval Western Christendom was indeed beset with grave difficulties, it was nevertheless an environment rich in opportunities; the Jews of medieval Europe overcame obstacles, grew in number, explored innovative economic options, and fashioned enduring new forms of Jewish living. His research also provides a reconsideration of the legacy of medieval Jewish life, which is often depicted as equally destructive and projected as the underpinning of the twentieth-century catastrophes of antisemitism and the Holocaust. Dr Chazan's research proves that, although Jewish life in the medieval West laid the foundation for much Jewish suffering in the post-medieval world, it also stimulated considerable Jewish ingenuity, which lies at the root of impressive Jewish successes in the modern West.