Cultures of the Jews A New History

Name: Cultures of the Jews A New History
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ISBN: 9780805241310

ISBN-10: 0805241310

ISBN-13: 9780805241310

Edition: 2002

Authors: David Biale

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An unprecedented interdisciplinary work of Jewish History - the first to bring together the wealth of research and analysis that have emerged in the past 50 years.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/15/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1232
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.49" long x 2.32" tall
Weight: 4.510
Language: English

Robert S. Westman is Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.David Biale is the Emmanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. He lives in Berkeley, California.



List of Contributors


Acknowledgments


Preface: Toward a Cultural History of the Jews




Mediterranean Origins


Introduction




Imagining the Birth of Ancient Israel: National Metaphors in the Bible




Israel Among the Nations: Biblical Culture in the Ancient Near East




Hellenistic Judaism




Jewish Culture in Greco-Roman Palestine




Confronting a Christian Empire: Jewish Culture in the World of Byzantium




Babylonian Rabbinic Culture




Jewish Culture in the Formative Period of Islam




Diversities of Diaspora


Introduction




Merchants and Intellectuals, Rabbis and Poets: Judeo-Arabic Culture in the Golden Age of Islam




A Letter to a Wayward Teacher: The Transformations of Sephardic Culture in Christian Iberia




A Jewish-Christian Symbiosis: The Culture of Early Ashkenaz




Innovative Tradition: Jewish Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth




Families and Their Fortunes: The Jews of Early Modern Italy




Bom Judesmo: The Western Sephardic Diaspora




Childbirth and Magic: Jewish Folklore and Material Culture




Modern Encounters


Introduction




Urban Visibility and Biblical Visions: Jewish Culture in Western and Central Europe in the Modern Age




A Journey Between Worlds: East European Jewish Culture from the Partitions of Poland to the Holocaust




The Ottoman Diaspora: The Rise and Fall of Ladino Literary Culture




Multicultural Visions: The Cultural Tapestry of the Jews of North Africa




Challenges to Tradition: Jewish Cultures in Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Bukhara




Religious Interplay on an African Stage: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia




Locus and Language: Hebrew Culture in Israel, 1890-1990




The "Other" Israel: Folk Cultures in the Modern State of Israel




Declarations of Independence: American Jewish Culture in the Twentieth Century



Conclusion



Index