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Author : David B. Ruderman
Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe by : David B. Ruderman
Download or read book Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe written by David B. Ruderman. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study on the scientific dimension of Jewish intellectual history in the early modern world
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Release : 1995
Genre : Jewish physicians
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Author : David B. Ruderman
Release : 2004-04-23
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Cultural Intermediaries by : David B. Ruderman
Download or read book Cultural Intermediaries written by David B. Ruderman. This book was released on 2004-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on an epoch of spectacular demographic, political, economic, and cultural changes for European Jewry, Cultural Intermediaries chronicles the lives and thinking of ten Jewish intellectuals of the Renaissance, nine of them from Italy and one a Portuguese exile who settled in the Ottoman empire after a long sojourn in Italy. David B. Ruderman, Giuseppe Veltri, and the other contributors to this volume detail how, in the relative openness of cultural exchange encountered in such intellectual centers as Florence, Mantua, Pisa, Naples, Ferrara, and Salonika, these Jewish savants sought to enlarge their cultural horizons, to correlate the teachings of their own tradition with those outside it, and to rethink the meaning of their religious and ethnic identities within the intellectual and religious categories common to European civilization as a whole. The engaging intellectual profiles created especially for this volume by scholars from Israel, North America, and Europe represent an important rereading and reinterpretation of early modern Jewish culture and society and its broader European intellectual contexts.
Author : Margaret C. Jacob
Release : 2006-07-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 334/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Strangers Nowhere in the World by : Margaret C. Jacob
Download or read book Strangers Nowhere in the World written by Margaret C. Jacob. This book was released on 2006-07-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of genteel naturalists busily distilling plants or making air pumps, the ritual fraternizing of "brothers" in privacy and even secrecy--Margaret Jacob invokes all of these examples in Strangers Nowhere in the World to provide glimpses of the cosmopolitan ethos that gradually emerged over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Jacob investigates what it meant to be cosmopolitan in Europe during the early modern period. Cosmopolites had to strike a delicate balance between the transgressive and the subversive, the radical and the dangerous, the open-minded and the libertine. Drawing upon sources as various as Inquisition records and spy reports, minutes of scientific societies and the writings of political revolutionaries, Strangers Nowhere in the World reveals a moment in European history when an ideal of cultural openness came to seem strong enough to counter centuries of prevailing chauvinism and xenophobia. Perhaps at no time since, Jacob cautions, has that cosmopolitan ideal seemed more fragile and elusive than it is today.
Author : David B. Ruderman
Release : 2007-07-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 160/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Connecting the Covenants by : David B. Ruderman
Download or read book Connecting the Covenants written by David B. Ruderman. This book was released on 2007-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ruderman uncovers a fascinating episode in the history of European Jewry and Jewish-Christian intellectual relations. Connecting the Covenants is compelling as both narrative and history."—Matt Goldish, The Ohio State University
