Regional identities and cultures of medieval Jews /edited by Javier Castaņo, Talya Fishman and Ephraim Kanarfogel.
- London : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization ; (c)2018. Liverpool : in association with Liverpool University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (x, 352 pages)
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / The emergence of the medieval Jewish diaspora(s) of Europe from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, with some thoughts on historical DNA studies / Medieval Jewish legends on the decline of the Babylonian centre and the primacy of the other geographical centres / The sacrifice of the souls of the righteous upon the heavenly altar : transformations of apocalyptic traditions in medieval Ashkenaz / The bifurcated legacy of Rabbi Moses Hadarshan and the rise of Peshat exegesis in medieval France / A new look at medieval Jewish exegetical constructions of Peshat in Christian and Muslim lands : Rashbam and Maimonides / The 'Our Talmud' tradition and the predilection for works of applied law in early Sephardi Rabbinic culture / From Germany to northern France and back again : a tale of two Tosafist centres / Rabbinic politics, royal conquest, and the creation of a Halakhic tradition in medieval Provence / Mediterranean regionalism in Hebrew panegyric poetry / Attraction and attribution : framings of Sephardi identity in Ashkenazi prayer books / Minhag and migration : Yiddish custom books from sixteenth-century Italy / A collection of Jewish philosophical prayers / Prophets and their impacts in the high middle ages : a subculture of Franco-German Jewry / Index. Talya Fishman -- Michael Toch -- Avraham Grossman -- Paul Mandel -- Hananel Mack -- Mordechai Z. Cohen -- Talya Fishman -- Ephraim Kanarfogel -- Pinchas Roth -- Jonathan Decter -- Elisabeth Hollender -- Lucia Raspe -- Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Moshe Idel --
The origins of Judaism's regional 'subcultures' are poorly understood, as are Jewish identities other than 'Ashkenaz' and 'Sepharad'. Through case studies and close textual readings, this volume illuminates the role of geopolitical boundaries, cross-cultural influences, and migration in the medieval formation of Jewish regional identities.