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1 online resource. |
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Bloomsbury companions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
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Print version record. |
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Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Detailed Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The Development of Jewish Studies; Jews, Jewish Studies, and Higher Education in America; Jewish Studies, Judaism, and the Jewish Community; Jewish Studies Today; Future Orientations; A Note on This Volume; Notes; Part I Judaism and Jewish Society from the Bible to Modernity; 2 The Hebrew Bible; Introduction: Where to Start; Major Books and Themes; After the Hebrew Bible: Interpretation and Scholarship; Notes; 3 The World of the Rabbis. |
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Introduction: Overview of the Rabbinic PeriodInterpretation and Scholarship; Conclusions: New Visions of Judaism in Late Antiquity; Notes; New Contexts: Medieval Jews and Judaism; 4 Comparative Medieval Perspectives; 5 Jews and the Islamic World: Transitions from Rabbinic to Medieval Contexts; Demographics in the Transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages; Responses to Conquest; Legal Status; Babylonians, Palestinians, and Karaites; Urbanization and Geographic Mobility; Linguistic and Cultural Change; The Breakdown of Empire and the Shift Westward; The Cairo Geniza; Islamic Iberia. |
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The Late Medieval PeriodNotes; 6 Medieval Jews and Judaism in Christian Contexts; Introduction; Settlement and Migration; Legal Status and Jewish Cultural Life before the First Crusade; The First Crusade; Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century Developments: Daily Life, Learned Culture, and Religious Entanglement; Religious Polemic, Conversion, and Identity; Persecutions, Expulsion, and Beyond; Notes; Changing Tempos and Foci: Looking to Modernity; 7 Early Modern Jews and Judaism; Introduction; Defining Early Modern Jews and Judaism: Questions of Identity; Settlement and Demography. |
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Jewish Communal Structure and GovernanceJewish Social Structures and Dynamics; Religion: Belief, Praxis, Deviation; Relations beyond the Jewish Community; Conclusions and Scholarly Directions; Notes; 8 Modernity, Judaism, and Jews; Introduction; Toward Modernity; Haskalah in Western Europe; Embracing Citizenship; New Religious Currents; Political and Racial Anti-Semitism in the Closing Quarter of the Nineteenth Century; Eastern European Jewry; Zionism; Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewry; American Judaism; The Shoah: End of an Era; Key Research Trends. |
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Part II Reorienting Contemporary Jewry and Jewish Studies9 Mainstreams and Margins: Rethinking Contemporary Jewry; Introduction; Mainstreams and Margins; From Ben-Gurion/Blaustein to Bibi/Barack; Memory Anxiety; Religion Rising; Fate and Destiny; Notes; 10 Women, Gender, and Judaism; Introduction; Hebrew Bible; Late Ancient Mediterranean Diaspora; Women in the System of Rabbinic Judaism; Middle Ages; Early Modern Period; Jewish Enlightenment and Modernity; Conclusions: Contemporary Challenges; Notes; 11 Jewish Arts and Material Culture; Introduction; Creativity and Jewish Populations. |
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Jews -- History.
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Judaism -- History.
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Bell, Dean Phillip, 1967- editor.
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Bell, Dean Phillip, 1967-
editor. Early modern Jews and Judaism.
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Ebooks Corporation
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Purchased with the support of the Barton and Judy Lessin Library Endowment Fund.
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| Related To |
Print version: Bloomsbury companion to Jewish Studies. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 9781441158574 (DLC) 2013025906 |
| ISBN |
9781472505408 (electronic bk.) |
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1472505409 (electronic bk.) |
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9781472513267 (electronic bk.) |
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1472513266 (electronic bk.) |
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9781441158574 |
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144115857X |
| OCLC # |
EBC1477401 |
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