Author: Gustav PearlsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Twelve Centuries of Jewish Persecution
Author: Gustav PearlsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Twelve Centuries of Jewish Persecution
Author: Gustav PearlsonTwelve Centuries of Jewish Persecution ... Second Impression
Author: Gustav PEARLSONTwelve Centuries of Jewish Persecution
Author: Gustav PearlsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Toleration and Persecution of the Jews in the Roman Empire
Author: Dora AskowithJewish Persecution of the Christians During the First Two Centuries
Author: George Calvin CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Persecution
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Sanctifying the Name of God
Author: Jeremy CohenPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201639
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
How are martyrs made, and how do the memories of martyrs express, nourish, and mold the ideals of the community? Sanctifying the Name of God wrestles with these questions against the background of the massacres of Jews in the Rhineland during the outbreak of the First Crusade. Marking the first extensive wave of anti-Jewish violence in medieval Christian Europe, these "Persecutions of 1096" exerted a profound influence on the course of European Jewish history. When the crusaders demanded that Jews choose between Christianity and death, many opted for baptism. Many others, however, chose to die as Jews rather than to live as Christians, and of these, many actually inflicted death upon themselves and their loved ones. Stories of their self-sacrifice ushered the Jewish ideal of martyrdom—kiddush ha-Shem, the sanctification of God's holy name—into a new phase, conditioning the collective memory and mindset of Ashkenazic Jewry for centuries to come, during the Holocaust, and even today. The Jewish survivors of 1096 memorialized the victims as martyrs as they rebuilt their communities during the decades following the Crusade. Three twelfth-century Hebrew chronicles of the persecutions preserve their memories of martyrdom and self-sacrifice, tales fraught with symbolic meaning that constitute one of the earliest Jewish attempts at local, contemporary historiography. Reading and analyzing these stories through the prism of Jewish and Christian religious and literary traditions, Jeremy Cohen shows how these persecution chronicles reveal much more about the storytellers, the martyrologists, than about the martyrs themselves. While they extol the glorious heroism of the martyrs, they also air the doubts, guilt, and conflicts of those who, by submitting temporarily to the Christian crusaders, survived.
History of the Jews: From the Chmielnicki persecution of the Jews in Poland, 1648 C.E., to the present time, 1870 C.E
Author: Heinrich GraetzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Constantine's Sword
Author: James CarrollPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618219087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives. "Chicago Tribune" Novelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. Fascinating, brave, and sometimes infuriating ("Time"), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create a deeply felt work ("San Francisco Chronicle") as Carroll wrangles with centuries of strife and tragedy to reach a courageous and affecting reckoning with difficult truths."
History of the Jews
Author: Heinrich GraetzPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1605209481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
A landmark work of Jewish history and a worldwide phenomenon when it was first published, this masterpiece of Jewish history was translated in multiple languages and instantly become the de facto standard in the field. German academic HEINRICH GRAETZ (1817-1891) brings a sympathetic Jewish perspective to the story of his own people, offering readers today an affectionate, passionate history, not a detached, clinical one. Backed by impeccable scholarship and originally published in German across 11 volumes between 1853 and 1875, this six-volume English-language edition was abridged under the direction of the author, and brought to American readers by the Jewish Publication Society of America in 1891. It remains an important work of the study of the Jewish religion and people to this day. Volume V, subtitled From the Chmielnicki Persecution of the Jews in Poland (1648 C.E.) to the Period of Emancipation in Central Europe (c. 1870 C.E.), opens with an exploration of the condition of Jews in Poland before the persecution and the unique character of Polish Judaism, and continues through to a discussion of reform movements and the state of Judaism in the United States up to the time of the book's writing.