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18%OFFElisheva Carlebach - Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe - 9780674052543 - V9780674052543
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Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe

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Description for Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe Hardback. Palaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time. Num Pages: 304 pages, 56 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; HRJC; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 190 x 28. Weight in Grams: 850.

From one of the leading historians of the Jewish past comes a stunning look into a previously unexamined dimension of Jewish life and culture: the calendar. In the late sixteenth century, Pope Gregory XIII instituted a momentous reform of Western timekeeping, and with it a period of great instability. Jews, like all minority cultures in Europe, had to realign their time-keeping to accord with the new Christian calendar.

Elisheva Carlebach shows that the calendar is a complex and living system, constantly modified as new preoccupations emerge and old priorities fade. Calendars serve to structure time and activities and thus ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674052543
SKU
V9780674052543
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About Elisheva Carlebach
Elisheva Carlebach is Salo W. Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society at Columbia University.

Reviews for Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe
A remarkable and pioneering study of the Jewish calendar and its significance. Brilliantly researched, gracefully written, and timely
in every sense of the word.
Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism: A History In a brilliant tour de force, Carlebach presents a masterful and penetrating analysis of the Jewish calendar as literature and material object, and as a ... Read more

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