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Section I. External relations -- The council of Elvira -- Christian leaders object to the sabbath and to the Jewish dating of Easter -- Jews and the later Roman law -- Julian and the Jews -- St. Ambrose and the Jews -- Augustine -- Pope Gregory the Great and the Jews -- The Jews of Spain : church councils and the visigothic code -- Louis the Pious -- Agobard of Lyons -- Bodo and the Jews -- Charters -- The crusader in Mainz -- The accusation of the ritual murder of St. William of Norwich -- The ritual murder accusations at Blois -- The expulsion of the Jews from France -- The York riots -- Innocent III and the Jews -- A Jewish woman impregnated by a cleric; a Jewish woman who became a Catholic -- The burning of the Talmud -- King Louis and the Jews -- Medieval Spanish laws and the Jews -- A bull of Pope Gregory X -- The black death and the Jews -- An oath taken by Jews -- Anti-Jewish riots in the Iberian peninsula -- The Passau host desecration -- The Spanish inquisition begins operations -- The expulsion from Spain -- The massacre of the new Christians of Lisbon -- The Spanish Inquisition at work -- Reuchlin's appeal to Bonetto de Lattes -- Martin Luther and the Jews -- The burning of Talmud in Italy -- Pope Paul IV cum nimis adsurdum -- A new Jewish community in the Netherlands -- The coassack revolt -- A petition for the readmission of the Jews to England -- The readmission of the Jews into Brandenburg -- The martyrdom of the Reizes brothers -- The charter decreed by Frederick II for the Jews of Prussia -- The punishment for sacrilege -- Ezekiel Landau's eulogy for the Empress Maria Theresa -- Section II. Internal dynamics A. Jewish self-government -- Legal questions regarding communal authority -- Ordinances (Takkanot) of Rabbenu Gershom -- Judah ben Asher : homicide and criminal penalties -- Valladolid synod of Castilian Jews -- Sumptuary and other Police laws -- Joseph Colon's responsa on community ordinances and rabbinic synods -- The Shulhan Arukh and its Mappah -- The council of four lands and the Lithuanian council -- The ransom of captives : eastern and southern Europe -- The Barbers' guild at Cracow, Poland -- The continuation of the Jewish community of Sugenheim town -- An attack on the hasidim -- -Shephatiah and Basil I in Constantinople -- Soloman bar Isaac (Rashi) -- Rabbenu Jacob ben Meir and the crusaders -- Abraham ibn Ezra -- Moses ben Nahman (ramban) -- Abraham Abulafia --Geronides on miracles -- Joseph ibn Shem Tov : a sermon on Jewish suffering -- Don Isaac Abravanel on monarchy and republics -- David Reuben -- Josel of Rosheim -- The oath of Amatus Lusitanus -- Maharal of Prague -- Mordecai Meisel, financier, and philanthropist -- Baruch Spinoza, philosopher -- The memoirs of Gluckel of Hamlen -- Joseph Sub Oppenheimer ("Jud Sub") -- Israel ben Eliezer Ba'al Shem Tov (Besht) -- Jacob Frank and the Frankists -- Solomon Maimon in Poland and Berlin -- The Messiah in Crete -- Sefe Hasidim on women -- Kabbalah -- "Practical kabbalah" -- Responses to the philosophical work of maimonides -- Ethical wills -- Jewish education -- A moralist's rebuke of Spanish Jewish society -- A proposed Jewish college -- The woman who refused to remain the wife of an innkeeper -- The Jewish community of Palermo -- A Jewish beautician -- Jewish books and their printers -- Leon Modena on gambling, money-lending, and Jewish languages -- Anti-Christian polemics -- Unusual experiences from the responsa literature -- Letters from ordinary Jews of Prague -- Seventeenth-century memoirs -- Saul Levi Morteira, "the people's envy" -- A preacher's rebuke of Polish Jewish society : berekhiah berakh -- Messianic excitement in Hamburg and Livorno -- An attack on hypocrisy -- Ber of Bloechow and his times. |
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9780822981237 (electronic bk.) |
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0822981238 (electronic bk.) |
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40025630014 |
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