TY  - BOOK
AU  - Castaño,Javier
AU  - Fishman,Talya
AU  - Kanarfogel,Ephraim
TI  - Regional identities and cultures of medieval Jews /edited by Javier Castaño, Talya Fishman and Ephraim Kanarfogel
T2  - The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
SN  - 9781786949905
AV  - BM180 .R445 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
KW  - Jews
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction; Talya Fishman --; The emergence of the medieval Jewish diaspora(s) of Europe from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, with some thoughts on historical DNA studies; Michael Toch --; Medieval Jewish legends on the decline of the Babylonian centre and the primacy of the other geographical centres; Avraham Grossman --; The sacrifice of the souls of the righteous upon the heavenly altar : transformations of apocalyptic traditions in medieval Ashkenaz; Paul Mandel --; The bifurcated legacy of Rabbi Moses Hadarshan and the rise of Peshat exegesis in medieval France; Hananel Mack --; A new look at medieval Jewish exegetical constructions of Peshat in Christian and Muslim lands : Rashbam and Maimonides; Mordechai Z. Cohen --; The 'Our Talmud' tradition and the predilection for works of applied law in early Sephardi Rabbinic culture; Talya Fishman --; From Germany to northern France and back again : a tale of two Tosafist centres; Ephraim Kanarfogel --; Rabbinic politics, royal conquest, and the creation of a Halakhic tradition in medieval Provence; Pinchas Roth --; Mediterranean regionalism in Hebrew panegyric poetry; Jonathan Decter --; Attraction and attribution : framings of Sephardi identity in Ashkenazi prayer books; Elisabeth Hollender --; Minhag and migration : Yiddish custom books from sixteenth-century Italy; Lucia Raspe --; A collection of Jewish philosophical prayers; Y. Tzvi Langermann --; Prophets and their impacts in the high middle ages : a subculture of Franco-German Jewry; Moshe Idel --; Index; 2; b
N2  - 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
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