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The Politics Of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department Of Justice, And Civil Rights, 1866-1876, Robert John Kaczorowski Nov 2004

The Politics Of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department Of Justice, And Civil Rights, 1866-1876, Robert John Kaczorowski

History

This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which federal judges, attorneys, and other law officers defined a new era of civil and political rights in the South and implemented the revolutionary 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments during Reconstruction.


A Century Of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years Of New York's Underground Railways, Brian J. Cudahy Sep 2004

A Century Of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years Of New York's Underground Railways, Brian J. Cudahy

History

Brian Cudahy offers a fascinating tribute to the world the subway created. Taking a fresh look at one of the marvels of the 20th century, Cudahy creates a vivid sense of this extraordinary achievement—how the city was transformed once New Yorkers started riding in a hole in the ground.


Lincoln On Democracy, Mario C. Cuomo, Harold Holzer Sep 2004

Lincoln On Democracy, Mario C. Cuomo, Harold Holzer

History

Back in print after ten years, this unique book brings together 141 speeches, speech excerpts, letters, fragments, and other writings by Lincoln on the theme of democracy. Selected by leading historians, the writings include such standards as the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address, but also such little-seen writings as a letter assuring a general that the President felt safe—drafted just three days before Lincoln’s assassination.

In this richly annotated anthology, the writings are grouped thematically into seven sections that cover politics, slavery, the union, democracy, liberty, the nation divided, and the American Dream.

The introductions are by well-known historians: …


Sefer Zikhronot-Book Of Remembrances By Samuel Aboab (1650), Bernard D. Cooperman Aug 2004

Sefer Zikhronot-Book Of Remembrances By Samuel Aboab (1650), Bernard D. Cooperman

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

This presentation is for the following text(s):

  • Sefer Zikhronot-Book of Remembrances


Records Of The Metz Beit Din: Jewish Court Records (1771-1789), Jay R. Berkovitz Aug 2004

Records Of The Metz Beit Din: Jewish Court Records (1771-1789), Jay R. Berkovitz

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Until roughly 1789, the hallmark of Jewish communal autonomy was the authority granted to rabbinic courts to adjudicate civil cases involving Jewish litigants. Nevertheless, the exclusive civil jurisdiction of these tribunals was challenged regularly by individuals seeking to resolve their disputes in the general courts. In Metz, the much esteemed rabbinic court (beit din) continued to convene until early 1790. Three registers from the beit din are preserved in manuscript at the YIVO Archives in New York. Commencing in 1771, the registers contain nearly two decades of judicial cases totaling 1167 decisions.

The texts included are two cases …


The Jewishness Of Conversos, Talya Fishman Aug 2004

The Jewishness Of Conversos, Talya Fishman

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Talya Fishman discusses rabbinic views on the Jewishness of conversos in the early modern period.

This presentation is for the following text(s):

  • Keshet U-Magen
  • Respuesta A Un Cavallero Frances
  • She'elot u-Teshuvot Yakhin u-Vo'az
  • Voice of a Fool


The Order Of Women's Commandments Seder Mitzvot Nashim By Benjamin Slonik (1577), Edward Fram Aug 2004

The Order Of Women's Commandments Seder Mitzvot Nashim By Benjamin Slonik (1577), Edward Fram

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Using Benjamin Slonik's Seder mitsvot ha-nashim (1577), Edward Fram discusses the impact of printing on Jewish culture in the early modern period.


Anti-Jewish Accusations In Poland: A Medieval Or Early Modern Phenomenon?, Magda Teter Aug 2004

Anti-Jewish Accusations In Poland: A Medieval Or Early Modern Phenomenon?, Magda Teter

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Anti-Jewish accusations of host desecration and ritual murder, both of medieval origin and nature, became characteristic of the early modern period in Poland. Despite their medieval roots, some of the medieval characteristics of the accusations were gradually lost in the early modern period, even though their traces continue to appear in the sources. The presentation discusses the loss of theological significance of the accusations. The host desecration accusations gradually become church robbery cases, even if some theological rhetoric is retained, and the blood libels become cases of Jewish hostility and not of reenacting of the Crucifixion.

This presentation is for …


Trent 1475: The Responses Of A Pope And A Jewish Chronicler, Kenneth Stow Aug 2004

Trent 1475: The Responses Of A Pope And A Jewish Chronicler, Kenneth Stow

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

This presentation discusses two responses to the 1475 trial of Jews accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy, Simon, in the city of Trent. One comes from Pope Sixtus IV and another, a century later, from a Jewish chronicler, Joseph ha-Cohen.


The Letters Of Bella Perlhefter (1674-75), Elisheva Carlebach Aug 2004

The Letters Of Bella Perlhefter (1674-75), Elisheva Carlebach

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Elisheva Carlebach discusses the literary legacy of Bella bat Jacob Perlhefter (born c. 1650), accomplished writer, instructor of music and rhythm, and entrepreneurial seventeenth-century businesswoman. Her letters provide a rare glimpse into the life of a seventeenth-century Jewish woman (other than Glikl).


Letter From Jerusalem By Obadiah Of Bertinoro (1488), Elliott Horowitz Aug 2004

Letter From Jerusalem By Obadiah Of Bertinoro (1488), Elliott Horowitz

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Elliott Horowitz discusses letters by the fifteenth-century Jewish traveler, Obadiah of Bertinoro, who traveled from northern Italy to Jerusalem, as an example of early modern travel literature and encounters with different cultures.


Sefer Ha-Heshek By Hillel Baal Shem (1739), Moshe Rosman Aug 2004

Sefer Ha-Heshek By Hillel Baal Shem (1739), Moshe Rosman

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Moshe Rosman discusses the 1739 book by Hillel Baal Shem as an example of early modern Jewish culture. It focuses on the tension between manuscript and print culture, and esoteric and exoteric knowledge.

The selected passages highlight Hillel's training, the problems caused by charlatans, the undesirable popularization of mystical techniques fostered by the publication of simplistic handbooks, and the tangled relationship between ba'al shem type practices and "proper" medicine.

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Introduction To Triumpho Del Govierno Popular, Anne Oravetz Albert Aug 2004

Introduction To Triumpho Del Govierno Popular, Anne Oravetz Albert

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

The Triumpho del Govierno Popular, y de la Antiguedad Holandesa by Miguel de Barrios (Daniel Levi de Barrios) describes the political and religious 'government' of the community, and includes accounts of its literary and charitable associations, along with poems, encomia, funeral orations, and other miscellanea from de Barrios' Jewish oeuvre. This excerpt constitutes the opening of the work, part of a 58-page introduction which sets a theme for the rest by relating the exilic governance of the Jewish people to the six days of creation, and the restored monarchy of the messianic age to the seventh day, on which God …


Popularization Of The Kabbalah: Two Early Modern Perspectives, Boaz Huss Aug 2004

Popularization Of The Kabbalah: Two Early Modern Perspectives, Boaz Huss

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

In this presentation Boaz Huss of Ben Gurion University discusses two texts, one from the sixteenth century, and one from the eighteenth century, illustrating the popularization of the Zohar, the foundational kabbalistic text, in the early modern period.


Introduction To R Hayim Vital And His Treatise Etz Hayim - The Tree Of Life [And To] The Sha'ar Hahaqdamot - Gate Of Principles (1572), Yosef Hacker, Menachem Kallus, Brian Ogren Aug 2004

Introduction To R Hayim Vital And His Treatise Etz Hayim - The Tree Of Life [And To] The Sha'ar Hahaqdamot - Gate Of Principles (1572), Yosef Hacker, Menachem Kallus, Brian Ogren

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Yosef Hacker of Hebrew University in Jerusalem discusses Hayim Vital's Ets Hayim.


Privilege And Statute Of Maria Theresia For The Jews Of Trieste (1771), Lois Dubin Aug 2004

Privilege And Statute Of Maria Theresia For The Jews Of Trieste (1771), Lois Dubin

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

In 1771 the Habsburg ruler Maria Theresia issued a Privilege and a Statute to Jews in Trieste, both to confirm their status and to attract additional Jewish merchants to help develop the Adriatic Free Port.

Lois Dubin discusses the legal and historical significance of this privilege.

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Jewish Legal Status In The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Adam Teller Aug 2004

Jewish Legal Status In The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Adam Teller

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

In this presentation, Adam Teller discusses the change of status of Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the subjects of the King in the late medieval period to subjects of lords, in private dominions during the early modern period. He contrasts two legal documents: a privilege granted to Jews by King Kazimierz Jagiellończyk (1453) and a privilege granted to Jews in the town of Jampol by the town's owner.


Elia Schadeus' Mysterium: About The Conversion Of The Jews (1592), Debra Kaplan Aug 2004

Elia Schadeus' Mysterium: About The Conversion Of The Jews (1592), Debra Kaplan

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

This text reflects Elia Schadeus' position that economic tolerance of Jews and of converts would facilitate conversion to Christianity. It also documents the desperation felt by Jewish converts to Christianity, who had difficulty integrating into both their old and new societies.


Welcome Address At Emw 2004, Magda Teter Aug 2004

Welcome Address At Emw 2004, Magda Teter

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Welcome address to the first annual Early Modern Workshop.

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Early Modern Jewries, Emw 2004 Aug 2004

Early Modern Jewries, Emw 2004

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

The 2004 workshop’s goal was to look broadly at the early modern period, and develop a number of themes that might be pursued at subsequent workshops. At the workshop, a number of scholars worked together for three days trying to define the parameters of this chronological period in Jewish history. Participants have covered a broad, if still necessarily limited, range of geographic, thematic, and disciplinary topics, resulting in the first collection of impressive texts on early modern Jewish history. They include privileges granted by monarchs and lords to Jews (privileges granted to Jews of Great Poland in 1453, to a …


A Coat Of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, And Reform In New York City's Garment Industry, Daniel Soyer Apr 2004

A Coat Of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, And Reform In New York City's Garment Industry, Daniel Soyer

History

For more than a century and a half—from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 20th—the garment industry was the largest manufacturing industry in New York City, and New York made more clothes than anywhere else.

For generations, the industry employed more New Yorkers than any other and was central to the city’s history, culture, and identity. Today, although no longer the big heart of industrial New York, the needle trades are still an important part of the city’s economy—especially for the new waves of immigrants who cut, sew, and assemble clothing in shops around the …