Description
A considerable part of Rabbi Abraham Joseph Canette s book includes autobiographical material. It sheds light on the life of an orphaned son who became a travelling rabbi. He describes the circumstances of his life in Safed, Jerusalem, Aleppo, Candia, Venice, Livorno, Algiers and Constantinople, and praises his benefactors and patrons in each. While much of his writing is stylized praise for these individuals, he also portrays his own personal life in great detail. His life story and the networks it reveals offer a view of individuals in communities and between communities. I intend to focus on several overlapping networks that emerge from his descriptions, both locally in Constantinople, where the book was printed, and in particular across the various communities in which the author lived, along which some of his own travels can be traced.
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Event Website
http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/emw/emw2010/
Start Date
17-8-2010 10:00 AM
Location
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Included in
History of Religion Commons, Jewish Studies Commons, Political History Commons, Social History Commons
Layered Networks: Functioning Across Communities
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
A considerable part of Rabbi Abraham Joseph Canette s book includes autobiographical material. It sheds light on the life of an orphaned son who became a travelling rabbi. He describes the circumstances of his life in Safed, Jerusalem, Aleppo, Candia, Venice, Livorno, Algiers and Constantinople, and praises his benefactors and patrons in each. While much of his writing is stylized praise for these individuals, he also portrays his own personal life in great detail. His life story and the networks it reveals offer a view of individuals in communities and between communities. I intend to focus on several overlapping networks that emerge from his descriptions, both locally in Constantinople, where the book was printed, and in particular across the various communities in which the author lived, along which some of his own travels can be traced.
This presentation is for the following text(s):
https://research.library.fordham.edu/emw/emw2010/emw2010/11
