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Emw 2012: Cross-Cultural Connections In The Early Modern Jewish World, Emw 2012
Emw 2012: Cross-Cultural Connections In The Early Modern Jewish World, Emw 2012
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Understanding the processes of cultural change in early modern history as a process of creating and negotiating social, cultural, and religious borders has become a commonplace in the last generation of research. This perspective has great validity for Jewish history, too: early modern Jews also found themselves in a range of new settings, which allowed a considerably greater range of interactions with their non-Jewish neighbors than had previously been the case. It was not only geographical dispersion that broadened their social, economic, cultural and religious contacts with their non-Jewish surroundings: new ideas and ideologies deriving from the thought of the …