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Author | : Ingrid M. Kaufmann |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2019-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110574411 |
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The medieval Ashkenazi manuscripts of the Small Book of Commandments (Sefer Mitzvot Katan, or ‘SeMaK’ for short), which was written by Isaac of Corbeil, attest a scribal culture in which rabbinical knowledge and piety were combined with creative freedom in manuscript design. This study is concerned with the creation, composition and circulation of manuscripts of the SeMaK and concentrates on the book as an artefact. The focus of the author’s attention is the manuscripts’ material nature, their artistic embellishment and the personal touches that scribes added to them. With the act of writing a text and decorating a SeMaK manuscript, they ‘appropriated’ the text, so to speak, giving it a character of its very own. They drew on a visual language in the process – or rather, on visual languages, which occupy a special place between pure writing culture and pure painting culture. It was in this area ‘in between’ the two that spontaneous touches arose, ranging from changes in the physical arrangement of the text (mise-en-page) to drawings and doodles added in the margins. An examination of paratextual elements broadens the reader’s knowledge about Jewish scribal culture and grants insights into medieval book art, material culture and Judeo-Christian co-existence in the Middle Ages as well as throwing some light on Jewish values, ideals and eschatological hopes.
Author | : Ingrid M. Kaufmann |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2019-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110573628 |
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The medieval Ashkenazi manuscripts of the Small Book of Commandments (Sefer Mitzvot Katan, or ‘SeMaK’ for short), which was written by Isaac of Corbeil, attest a scribal culture in which rabbinical knowledge and piety were combined with creative freedom in manuscript design. This study is concerned with the creation, composition and circulation of manuscripts of the SeMaK and concentrates on the book as an artefact. The focus of the author’s attention is the manuscripts’ material nature, their artistic embellishment and the personal touches that scribes added to them. With the act of writing a text and decorating a SeMaK manuscript, they ‘appropriated’ the text, so to speak, giving it a character of its very own. They drew on a visual language in the process – or rather, on visual languages, which occupy a special place between pure writing culture and pure painting culture. It was in this area ‘in between’ the two that spontaneous touches arose, ranging from changes in the physical arrangement of the text (mise-en-page) to drawings and doodles added in the margins. An examination of paratextual elements broadens the reader’s knowledge about Jewish scribal culture and grants insights into medieval book art, material culture and Judeo-Christian co-existence in the Middle Ages as well as throwing some light on Jewish values, ideals and eschatological hopes.
Author | : Irina Wandrey |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2017-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 311054654X |
Download Jewish Manuscript Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hebrew manuscripts are considered to be invaluable documents and artefacts of Jewish culture and history. Research on Hebrew manuscript culture is progressing rapidly and therefore its topics, methods and questions need to be enunciated and reflected upon. The case studies assembled in this volume explore various fields of research on Hebrew manuscripts. They show paradigmatically the current developments concerning codicology and palaeography, book forms like the scroll and codex, scribes and their writing material, patrons, collectors and censors, manuscript and book collections, illuminations and fragments, and, last but not least, new methods of material analysis applied to manuscripts. The principal focus of this volume is the material and intellectual history of Hebrew book cultures from antiquity to the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, its intention being to heighten and sharpen the reader’s understanding of Jewish social and cultural history in general.
Author | : Noa Hazan |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2022-09-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472133187 |
Download Visual Syntax of Race Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The visual representation of racial thought
Author | : Clare Moore |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1000306925 |
Download The Visual Dimension Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book looks at art historical explorations, matters of archival legitimacy, the survival of fakes and forgeries and many other aspects of Jewish art. It commemorates the life and work of Isaiah Shachar through the medium of papers given at the first international conference on Jewish art.
Author | : Lewis Glinert |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Download Hebrew in Ashkenaz Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hebrew in Ashkenaz is a pioneering attempt to reverse an age-old academic prejudice against the legitimacy of Ashkenazi Hebrew. Glinert has gathered philosophers, historians, sociologists, and linguists to address such contentious issues as the role of Hebrew in Jewish life and the evolving shape of the language, over the period of one thousand years from the dawn of Ashkenazi life in Germany through contemporary Jewish society in Britain and Russia. This book finally abolishes the myth that Ashkenazi Hebrew was solely a language of religious study and fixed prayer. Instead, it is shown through these essays to be a language with vibrancy and creativity all its own, from which today's Hebrew emerged with remarkably little effort. This study, the first global look at the role of Hebrew in Jewish society, will interest students and scholars of Jewish history, Hebrew, mysticism, and general sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics.
Author | : Gertrude Hirschler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : 9780881253221 |
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Author | : Yeshiva University. Museum |
Publisher | : [New York] : Yeshiva University Museum |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : 9780945447016 |
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An illustrated catalogue of an exhibition at the Yeshiva University Museum, 1986-87, covering all aspects of Jewish religious, cultural, social, and economic life in Germany and Austria. A brief essay introduces each section. Pp. 301-315, "The Tragedy of Ashkenaz", traces the history of German antisemitism from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust.
Author | : Talya Fishman |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2012-01-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0812204980 |
Download Becoming the People of the Talmud Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. Although the Talmud's preeminence in Jewish study and its determining role in Jewish practice are generally taken for granted, Fishman contends that these roles were not solidified until the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. The inscription of Talmud—which Sefardi Jews understand to have occurred quite early, and Ashkenazi Jews only later—precipitated these developments. The encounter with Oral Torah as a written corpus was transformative for both subcultures, and it shaped the roles that Talmud came to play in Jewish life. What were the historical circumstances that led to the inscription of Oral Torah in medieval Europe? How did this body of ancient rabbinic traditions, replete with legal controversies and nonlegal material, come to be construed as a reference work and prescriptive guide to Jewish life? Connecting insights from geonica, medieval Jewish and Christian history, and orality-textuality studies, Becoming the People of the Talmud reconstructs the process of cultural transformation that occurred once medieval Jews encountered the Babylonian Talmud as a written text. According to Fishman, the ascription of greater authority to written text was accompanied by changes in reading habits, compositional predilections, classroom practices, approaches to adjudication, assessments of the past, and social hierarchies. She contends that certain medieval Jews were aware of these changes: some noted that books had replaced teachers; others protested the elevation of Talmud-centered erudition and casuistic virtuosity into standards of religious excellence, at the expense of spiritual refinement. The book concludes with a consideration of Rhineland Pietism's emergence in this context and suggests that two contemporaneous phenomena—the prominence of custom in medieval Ashkenazi culture and the novel Christian attack on Talmud—were indirectly linked to the new eminence of this written text in Jewish life.
Author | : Sina Rauschenbach |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2020-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110695529 |
Download Sephardim and Ashkenazim Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sephardic and Ashkenazic Judaism have long been studied separately. Yet, scholars are becoming ever more aware of the need to merge them into a single field of Jewish Studies. This volume opens new perspectives and bridges traditional gaps. The authors are not simply contributing to their respective fields of Sephardic or Ashkenazic Studies. Rather, they all include both Sephardic and Ashkenazic perspectives as they reflect on different aspects of encounters and reconsider traditional narratives. Subjects range from medieval and early modern Sephardic and Ashkenazic constructions of identities, influences, and entanglements in the fields of religious art, halakhah, kabbalah, messianism, and charity to modern Ashkenazic Sephardism and Sephardic admiration for Ashkenazic culture. For reasons of coherency, the contributions all focus on European contexts between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries.