Jewish Culture and Society in Medieval France and Germany

Informationen zum Autor Ivan G Marcus is Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History! Yale University! USA. Zusammenfassung These studies explore the history of the Jewish minority of Ashkenaz (northern France and the German Empire) during the High Middle Ages. A number of studies in the collection focus on Jewish-Christian cultural and social interactions, the foundations of the community ascribed to Charlemagne. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction. The Jews of Medieval Northern France and Germany (Ashkenaz): A Jewish-Christian symbiosis: the culture of early Ashkenaz; The foundation legend of Ashkenazic Judaism; Rashi's historiosophy in the introductions to his Bible commentaries; The dynamics of Jewish Renaissance and renewal in the 12th century; Honey cakes and Torah: a Jewish boy learns his letters; A pious community and doubt: Jewish martyrdom among northern European Jewry and the story of Rabbi Amnon of Mainz; History! story and collective memory: narrativity in early Ashkenazic culture; From politics to martyrdom: shifting paradigms in the Hebrew narratives of the 1096 crusade riots; Jews and Christians imagining the other in medieval Europe. Medieval German Pietism (Hasidei Ashkenaz): The recensions and structure of Sefer Hasidim; The song of songs in German Hasidism and the school of Rashi: a preliminary comparison; Exegesis for the few and for the many: Judah he-Hasid's biblical commentaries; Narrative fantasies from Sefer Hasidim; The historical meaning of Hasidei Ashkenaz: fact! fiction or cultural self-image?; The devotional ideals of Ashkenazic pietism; Prayer gestures in German Hasidism. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ivan G. Marcus, Marcus Ivan G.
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2014
• EAN: 9781472436344
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-3634-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies Series; Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, France, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Relating to Jewish people and groups, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Social groups: religious groups and communities