1st Edition
Early Modern Jewish Civilization Unity and Diversity in a Diasporic Society. An Introduction
1. Introduction: Continuities and Discontinuities in The Formation of a Transoceanic Diaspora, 1391-1789
David Graizbord
2. Who were the Jews of the Pre-Modern Diaspora?
Jonathan Ray
3. Ḥayei ha-Torah (The Life of Torah): Rabbinic Culture and The Premodern Jewish Heritage Preserved and Adapted
David Graizbord
4. Erets Iśra’el (The Land of Israel): The Homeland, Its Jews, and Their Orienting Influence
David Graizbord
5. ‘Umot ha-‘Olam (The Nations of the World): Relations with The Other(s)
Iberian Watersheds: The Crisis of judeoconversos and the Evolution of Anti-Jewish Bigotry
David Graizbord
Jews in the Iberian Peninsula to 1498 and the Problem of judeoconversos 130
David Graizbord
Iberian judeoconversos and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Polemical Tracts 137
Axel Kaplan-Szyld
Jews and Their Non-Jewish Hosts in an Evolving Diaspora: Jews and Jewish-Muslim Relations in the Ottoman Sphere
David Graizbord
6. Kol Yisrael ‘Arevim Zeh la-Zeh (“All Israel are Mutually Responsible”): Self-Government, Economy, and the Rise of New Diasporic Centers
The Jews of the Italian Peninsula
Serena di Nepi
The Rise of New Diasporic Centers
Jessica Vance Roitman
7. Tsena u-Re’ena (Go Out and See): The World of Jewish Books
Noam Sienna
8. Ḳabalah (Tradition): Early Modern Jewish Mysticism as a Devotional Matrix of Jewish Life
Roni Weinstein
9. Minhagim (Customs): A Window on Popular Culture
Yaron Nisenholz
10. ‘Erev Rav (A Mixed Multitude): Class, Gender, and Ideological Cleavages
Stanley Mirvis
11: Ḥasidut and Haskalah (Pietism and Enlightenment): Toward the Watershed of Modernity
Stanley Mirvis
Biography
David Graizbord, a historian, is Curson Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. His publications include Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700 (2004), and The New Zionists: Young American Jews, Jewish National Identity, and Israel (2020).
