Description
Understanding the processes of cultural change in early modern history as a process of creating and negotiating social, cultural, and religious borders has become a commonplace in the last generation of research. This perspective has great validity for Jewish history, too: early modern Jews also found themselves in a range of new settings, which allowed a considerably greater range of interactions with their non-Jewish neighbors than had previously been the case. It was not only geographical dispersion that broadened their social, economic, cultural and religious contacts with their non-Jewish surroundings: new ideas and ideologies deriving from the thought of the renaissance, the enlightenment, mercantilism, as well as the Protestant and Catholic reformations opened up new horizons for cross-cultural contacts, too.
The texts discussed during the EMW 2012 included inquisition trials, correspondence, criminal trials, rabbinic court records, takkanot, works by Christian Hebraists, and more.
Event Website
http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/emw/emw2012/
Start Date
27-2-2012 10:00 AM
End Date
28-2-2012 6:00 PM
Location
Brown University
Included in
Cultural History Commons, European History Commons, History of Religion Commons, Jewish Studies Commons, Social History Commons
EMW 2012: Cross-Cultural Connections in the Early Modern Jewish World
Brown University
Understanding the processes of cultural change in early modern history as a process of creating and negotiating social, cultural, and religious borders has become a commonplace in the last generation of research. This perspective has great validity for Jewish history, too: early modern Jews also found themselves in a range of new settings, which allowed a considerably greater range of interactions with their non-Jewish neighbors than had previously been the case. It was not only geographical dispersion that broadened their social, economic, cultural and religious contacts with their non-Jewish surroundings: new ideas and ideologies deriving from the thought of the renaissance, the enlightenment, mercantilism, as well as the Protestant and Catholic reformations opened up new horizons for cross-cultural contacts, too.
The texts discussed during the EMW 2012 included inquisition trials, correspondence, criminal trials, rabbinic court records, takkanot, works by Christian Hebraists, and more.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/emw/emw2012/emw2012/1
