Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of David B. Ruderman
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Cohen, Richard I.; Dohrmann, Natalie B.; Shear, Adam; Reiner, Elchanan. Num Pages: 408 pages, 5 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; HRLP; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 748.
David B. Ruderman's groundbreaking studies of Jewish intellectuals as they engaged with Renaissance humanism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment have set the agenda for a distinctive historiographical approach to Jewish culture in early modern Europe, from 1500 to 1800. From his initial studies of Italy to his later work on eighteenth-century English, German, and Polish Jews, Ruderman has emphasized the individual as a representative or exemplary figure through whose life and career the problems of a period and cultural context are revealed. Thirty-one leading scholars celebrate Ruderman's stellar career in essays that bring new insight into Jewish culture as ... Read more
David B. Ruderman's groundbreaking studies of Jewish intellectuals as they engaged with Renaissance humanism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment have set the agenda for a distinctive historiographical approach to Jewish culture in early modern Europe, from 1500 to 1800. From his initial studies of Italy to his later work on eighteenth-century English, German, and Polish Jews, Ruderman has emphasized the individual as a representative or exemplary figure through whose life and career the problems of a period and cultural context are revealed. Thirty-one leading scholars celebrate Ruderman's stellar career in essays that bring new insight into Jewish culture as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Hebrew Union College Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780822944331
SKU
V9780822944331
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About
Richard I. Cohen is Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Natalie B. Dohrmann is Associate Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Adam Shear is Associate Professor ... Read more
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