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Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750
Carlebach (history, Queens College and CUNY) writes that while conversion usually summoned up a kind of transfiguration and rebirth into a superior religion, the meaning began eroding when speaking of 16th century German Jews. Christians increasingly saw Jewish converts as "`taufjuden,' baptized, b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present
by Debra Kaplan • Elisheva Carlebach • Nadia Valman • Judith R. Baskin • Dianne Ashton • Moshe Rosman • Marla Brettschneider • Dina Danon • Rebecca Lynn Winer • Natalia Aleksiun • Rachel Adelman • Benjamin M. Baader • Joseph and Esther Foster Professor in Judaic Studies Sylvia Barack Fishman • Book Review Editor Federica Francesconi • ChaeRan Freeze • Tal Ilan • Book Review Editor Melissa R Klapper • Sharon Koren • Frances Malino • Renee Levine Melammed • Lilach Rosenberg-FriedmanJewish Women’s History from Antiquity to the Present is broad in geographical scope exploring Jewish women’s lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. Editors Federica Francesconi and Rebecca Lynn Winer focus the volume on reconstructi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021