Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture
Subtitle: From al-Andalus to the Haskalah (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
Contributors: Ross Brann (Editor); Adam Sutcliffe (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780812237429
Subjects: Jewish studies; World history; Spain; History - General History; Congresses; History; Jews; History: World; Europe; Europe - General; Jewish - General; Religion / Judaism / History; Civilization; Italy
First sentence: Localized comparisons between distant and different periods always run the risk of being superficial, all the more so comparisons between periods of transition and development-for in the latter, one has to compare both the point of departure and the outcome, not to mention the internal forces at work in the distinctive periods involved.