Early modern Jewry
Subtitle: a new cultural history
By: David B. Ruderman.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780691144641
Subjects: Jews -- Intellectual life; Jews -- Europe -- History; Jews -- Social networks -- Europe -- History; Jews -- History -- 70-1789; Jewish learning and scholarship -- Europe; Judaism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Judaism -- History; Judaism -- Europe -- History; Rabbis -- Biography; Europe -- Intellectual life
Genres: Early works to 1800; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jews on the move; title: Communal cohesion; title: Knowledge explosion; title: Crisis of rabbinic authority; title: Mingled identities; title: Toward modernity: some final thoughts.