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The Jews of Europe After the Black Death
Anna Foa
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Description for The Jews of Europe After the Black Death
Hardback. A history of Jewish life in Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth century that breaks through the boundaries of traditional narratives. It concentrates on the creative aspects of Jewish life, and on continuities and correspondences among very different local Jewish communities. Translator(s): Grover, Andrea. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3J; HBJD; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Anna Foa's richly innovative history of Jewish life in Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth century breaks through the boundaries of traditional narratives. Instead of featuring a long series of catastrophes and cataclysms and the Jews' responses to them, Foa concentrates on the creative aspects of Jewish life, and on continuities and correspondences among very different local Jewish communities. Foa's illuminating overview of the issues and debates that have dominated the study of Western European Jewish society more than justifies her blending of narrative history with thematic investigations. This is, perhaps surprisingly, the story of a stability that underlies ... Read more
Anna Foa's richly innovative history of Jewish life in Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth century breaks through the boundaries of traditional narratives. Instead of featuring a long series of catastrophes and cataclysms and the Jews' responses to them, Foa concentrates on the creative aspects of Jewish life, and on continuities and correspondences among very different local Jewish communities. Foa's illuminating overview of the issues and debates that have dominated the study of Western European Jewish society more than justifies her blending of narrative history with thematic investigations. This is, perhaps surprisingly, the story of a stability that underlies ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520087651
SKU
V9780520087651
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About Anna Foa
Anna Foa is a research fellow at the University of Rome "La Sapienza." In addition to The Jews of Europe after the Black Death (published in Italy as Ebrei in Europa, 1992), she is the author or editor of four other books, most recently Giordano Bruno (1998). Andrea Grover is Adjunct Associate Professor of Humanities at New York University.
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