Early Modern Jewish Civilization: Unity and Diversity in a Diasporic Society. An Introduction

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David Graizbord

Early Modern Jewish Civilization

Unity and Diversity in a Diasporic Society. An Introduction

David Graizbord

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Routledge
14 August 2024

European history; Social & cultural history; Judaism; Jewish studies

Series: Early Modern Themes

This collection is an introductory historical survey and selective cultural analysis of the development, coalescence, and eventual waning of a diasporic civilization—that of the Jews of the early modern period (ca. 1391–1789) in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and key nodes of the Iberian Empires in the Americas.

Each chapter explores key factors that shaped both distinctive early modern Jewish communities and a remarkably coalescent and far broader community-of-communities. The contributors engage and answer the following questions: What do historians mean by “early modernity,” and to what extent does the concept illuminate the history and culture(s) of Jews from the end of the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment? What were the general demographic contours of the Jewish diaspora over this period and how did they change? How did culture, politics, technology, economics, and gender shape diasporic Jewish communities across eastern and western Europe and the New World over the course of some 400 years? Ultimately, the work renders a portrait of coherence and diversity, continuity and discontinuity, in early modern Jewish life within and across temporal and geographic boundaries.

Early Modern Jewish Civilization is essential reading for all students of Jewish history and civilization and early modern history more broadly.

Edited by: David Graizbord
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780367767211
ISBN 10: 036776721X
Series: Early Modern Themes
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 14 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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).