Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xii, 296 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

French, English

Biographical note

Ilana Zinguer is Professor Emerita in Renaissance French Literature and ex-Chair of The Center for the Study of French Civilization at the Univesity of Haifa. Her publications include discussions of French literature, emblems, women, travels, alchemy, medicine, Hebrew, and Hebraic sources of the Renaissance.

Abraham Melamed is Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Wolfson Chair for the Study of Jewish Cultural Heritage at the University of Haifa. He has published widely on medieval and Renaissance Jewish intellectual history and political philosophy.

Zur Shalev, Ph.D. (2004) in History, Princeton University, is researching and teaching early modern European history at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has published works on geography, cartography, travel, pilgrimage, Hebraism, and Orientalism.

Readership

This volume will be of interest to scholars of Renaissance humanism and of Christian Hebraism, to those who specialize in Judaic culture and inter-cultural exchanges, and to historians of early modern religion.

Part I – Kabbalah and Mysticism
Giulio Camillo’s Memory Theatre and the Kabbalah
Lina Bolzoni
Entering the Labyrinth: On the Hebraic and Kabbalistic Universe of Egidio da Viterbo
Daniel Stein-Kokin
Whither Kabbalah? Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Kabbalah, and the Disputations against Judicial Astrology
Sheila J. Rabin
Part II – Philosophy and the Humanities
A - The Abravanel
A Paradigm in Isaac Abravanel's Encounter with Renaissance Culture
Cédric Cohen Skalli
Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’amore as a Pivotal Document of Jewish-Christian Relations in Renaissance Rome
James Nelson Novoa
B - Philosophical Aspects
The Immortality of the Soul and Opening Up to the Christian World: A Chapter in Early Modern Jewish-Italian Literature
Alessandro Guetta
Authority vs. Authenticity. The Leiden Debate on Bible and Hebrew (1575-1650)
Arthur Eyffinger
C - Conversos, Language and Baroque
De la pureté de sang aux XVe et XVIe siècles
Annie Molinié et Béatrice Perez
L'implicite à propos des Juifs de Rome
Ilana Zinguer
Vers une sémiotique du Judaïsme à l'âge baroque
Georges Molinié
D - Literature
Moses Zacuto Poet of Kabbalah
Dvora Bregman
Le Rôle de la poésie Hébraïque dans l’enseignement de Charles Utenhove
Philip Ford
E - Hebraism and Geographical Thought
The Role of Early Renaissance Geographical Discoveries in Yohanan Alemanno's Messianic Thought
Fabrizio Lelli
Kabbale et cosmographie, de Guillaume Postel à Jacques d'Auzoles-Lapeyre
Frank Lestringant
Conclusion
Race, Antisemitism and the Renaissance in Fascist Italy
David Baum

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The Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference

Edited by Shlomo Simonsohn, Tel-Aviv University and Joseph Shatzmiller, Duke University

This volume contains the proceedings of the Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference, held at Tel Aviv University 3-5 January, 2010, on the occasion of the jubilee celebration of outstanding scholarship on the history of Italian Jewry.

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The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919-‐1939

Ilse Josepha Lazaroms, Central European University

In The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 1919–1939 Ilse Josepha Lazaroms offers an account of the life and intellectual legacy of Joseph Roth, one of interwar Europe's most critical and modern writers.

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Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context

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A collection of essays by an international cadre of theater scholars, which addresses Jewish theater practitioners, playwrights, critics, financiers and audiences roles in the development of the European and American theater.

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The Martyrdom of a Moroccan Jewish Saint

Sharon Vance

The martyrdom of a young Jewish girl from Tangier in 1834 sparked a literary response that continues today. This book translates and analyzes printed and manuscript versions of her story in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Spanish, Spanish and French written in the first century after her death.

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Between Scylla and Charybdis

Shlomo Simonsohn

The history of the Jews in Sicily covers a period of over a thousand years, from Antiquity to the Expulsion, based on some 40,000 archival records, most of them hitherto unpublished. It illustrates the political, legal, economic, social and religious vicissitudes of the Jewish minority and its ...

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Using cutting-edge theory regarding trade networks and diaspora, this book offers an innovative analysis of Sephardic merchants in 17th c. Amsterdam’s trade. Challenging views that Sephardic success stemmed from endogamous business relationships, it shows that Sephardic merchants traded with ...

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9789004186385

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The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book (2 vols)

Marvin J. Heller

The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book covers the gamut of Hebrew literature in that century. Each entry has a descriptive text page and an accompaning reproduction. There is an extensive introduction with an overview of Hebrew printing in the seventeenth century.

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The Jews of Iran in the Nineteenth Century

David Yeroushalmi

Dealing with some of the main aspects of general history among the Jews of nineteenth-century Iran, this book provides the reader with over 40 selected archival and published sources. Analyzed and annotated in detail, the sources shed light on the general history, community, culture, and ...

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The Messianic Secret of Hasidism

Mor Altshuler, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

This book goes back to the early days of Hasidism and retells its beginning with an esoteric circle of messianic Kabbalists that established the first Hasidic court. Paradoxically, their failure to bring redemption enabled the growth of Hasidism from a small group of devotees to a mass movement, ...

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The Dutch Intersection

Edited by Yosef Kaplan

The articles of this volume deal with the connections between the history and culture of the Jews of the Netherlands from the beginning of the seventeenth century until the Holocaust and its aftermath, and phenomena and processes that distinguish all of Jewish history in the modern period.