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Studies on the Jews of Venice, 1382–1797

By: Benjamin Ravid

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Studies on the Jews of Venice, 1382–1797

By: Benjamin Ravid

The Jewish community of early modern Venice was perhaps the leading Jewish community of its time. It emerged as a response to the desire of the Venetian government to make credit readily available and, toward the end of the 16th century, it greatly expanded as Venice, faced with a serious decline in its international maritime trade, adopted a policy of attracting Iberian New Christian merchants. Yet Jews were still treated as the Other and subjected to restrictions and discriminatory measures, including confinement to a segregated enclosed quarter; the 'ghetto'. Despite this, the interplay between economically motivated raison d'état and traditional religious hostility resulted in a delicate balance which enabled the Jewish community of Venice to assume a real leadership role in the world of the Iberian Jewish Diaspora. Based extensively on previously unconsulted documents, these articles deal with central issues in the experience of the Jews of Venice, and so of Diaspora Jewish history in general: the Jewish quarter, maritime trade and urban moneylending, the Jewish distinguishing head-covering, relations with church and state, the forced baptism of Jewish minors, the converso problem, and anti-Judaism.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000945499

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Trading Nations

Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean

By: Benjamin Arbel

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Trading Nations

Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean

By: Benjamin Arbel

This book deals with the intricate, and often uneasy relationship which developed between Jews and Venetians, as they struggled to cope with the changing realities of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world. The fruit of many years of research in the Venetian archives, this volume explores undiscovered aspects of Mediterranean history regarding the involvement of Venetians and Jews in the international maritime trade, Venetian attitudes towards Jews, the impact of Venetian-Ottoman contention on the relationship between Jews and Venetians, and more. The unfolding of this relationship reveals new perspectives on the history of sixteenth-century Venice, on the social and economic history of the Jews, and on the history of the Ottoman Empire in its prime.

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255

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BRILL

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9004679170

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9789004679177

Feminism, Family, and Identity in Israel

Women’s Marital Names

By: M. Rom,O. Benjamin

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Feminism, Family, and Identity in Israel

Women’s Marital Names

By: M. Rom,O. Benjamin

Women's inner struggle over their marital names reveal how they negotiate a specific identity location in each dimension of identity. This book tackles a complex sociological project of examining three existing theories, and will prove to be important for the study of Gender and Middle Eastern Culture.

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412

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Springer

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0230118941

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9780230118942

Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah

Learning from Lebanon and Getting It Right in Gaza

By: Benjamin S. Lambeth

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Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah

Learning from Lebanon and Getting It Right in Gaza

By: Benjamin S. Lambeth

Examines the performance of the Israeli Defense Forces in Lebanon in 2006 and contrasts it with Israel's action against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in December 2008 and January 2009.

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443

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Rand Corporation

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0833058436

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9780833058430

Decision Making for Student Success

Behavioral Insights to Improve College Access and Persistence

By: Benjamin L. Castleman,Saul Schwartz,Sandy Baum

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Decision Making for Student Success

Behavioral Insights to Improve College Access and Persistence

By: Benjamin L. Castleman,Saul Schwartz,Sandy Baum

Each year, many students with affordable college options and the academic skills needed to succeed do not enroll at all, enroll at institutions where they are not well-positioned for success, or drop out of college before earning a credential. Efforts to address these challenges have included changes in financial aid policy, increased availability of information, and enhanced academic support. This volume argues that the efficacy of these strategies can be improved by taking account of contemporary research on how students make choices. In Decision Making for Student Success, scholars from the fields of behavioral economics, education, and public policy explore contemporary research on decision-making and highlight behavioral insights that can improve postsecondary access and success. This exciting volume will provide scholars, researchers, and higher education administrators with valuable perspectives and low-cost strategies that they can employ to improve outcomes for underserved populations.

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191

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Routledge

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1317664922

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9781317664925

Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean

Studies in Honour of David Jacoby

By: Benjamin Arbel

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Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean

Studies in Honour of David Jacoby

By: Benjamin Arbel

These essays by medievalists touch upon many aspects of intercultural links in the medieval Mediterranean, covering not only strictly cultural and religious contacts, but also political, military, ethnic, social institutional, scientific and technological relationships.

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Routledge

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1135781958

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Divided by Faith

Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe

By: Benjamin J. Kaplan

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Divided by Faith

Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe

By: Benjamin J. Kaplan

As religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute dilemma: Can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Benjamin Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less pressing than it is today. Divided by Faith begins in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, when the unity of western Christendom was shattered, and takes us on a panoramic tour of Europe's religious landscape--and its deep fault lines--over the next three centuries. Kaplan's grand canvas reveals the patterns of conflict and toleration among Christians, Jews, and Muslims across the continent, from the British Isles to Poland. It lays bare the complex realities of day-to-day interactions and calls into question the received wisdom that toleration underwent an evolutionary rise as Europe grew more "enlightened." We are given vivid examples of the improvised arrangements that made peaceful coexistence possible, and shown how common folk contributed to toleration as significantly as did intellectuals and rulers. Bloodshed was prevented not by the high ideals of tolerance and individual rights upheld today, but by the pragmatism, charity, and social ties that continued to bind people divided by faith. Divided by Faith is both history from the bottom up and a much-needed challenge to our belief in the triumph of reason over faith. This compelling story reveals that toleration has taken many guises in the past and suggests that it may well do the same in the future.

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Harvard University Press

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0674039300

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9780674039308

Your Name Is Your Blessing

Hebrew Names and Their Mystical Meanings

By: Benjamin Blech,Elaine Blech

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Your Name Is Your Blessing

Hebrew Names and Their Mystical Meanings

By: Benjamin Blech,Elaine Blech

Your Name Is Your Blessing: Hebrew Names and Their Mystical Meanings represents the first time that the secrets of the Kabbalah, the mystical teachings of Jewish spiritual leaders, were introduced to the general public for the purpose of explaining the profound meanings hidden in every person’s name. Even now, Your Name is Your Blessing remains alone in its application of Kabbalistic teachings to the choice and understanding of one’s name. A name tells a story that captures a person’s character and personality, and Your Name Is Your Blessing, Benjamin and Elaine Blech provide a guide to understanding what your name says about you and your life. The Blechs give the gematria—the total numerical value of a word, which is the starting point for kabbalistic analysis—for hundreds of names, as well as Biblical words, phrases, and blessings associated with this numerical value.

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Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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1461632684

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Amsterdam's People of the Book

Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century

By: Benjamin E. Fisher

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Amsterdam's People of the Book

Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century

By: Benjamin E. Fisher

The Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centered on the Bible. School children studied the Bible systematically, while rabbinic literature was pushed to levels reached by few students; adults met in confraternities to study Scripture; and families listened to Scripture-based sermons in synagogue, and to help pass the long, cold winter nights of northwest Europe. The community's rabbis produced creative, and often unprecedented scholarship on the Jewish Bible as well as the New Testament. Amsterdam's People of the Book shows that this unique, Bible-centered culture resulted from the confluence of the Jewish community's Catholic and converso past with the Protestant world in which they came to live. Studying Amsterdam's Jews offers an early window into the prioritization of the Bible over rabbinic literature -- a trend that continues through modernity in western Europe. It allows us to see how Amsterdam's rabbis experimented with new historical methods for understanding the Bible, and how they grappled with doubts about the authority and truth of the Bible that were growing in the world around them. Amsterdam's People of the Book allows us to appreciate how Benedict Spinoza's ideas were in fact shaped by the approaches to reading the Bible in the community where he was born, raised, and educated. After all, as Spinoza himself remarked, before becoming Amsterdam's most famous heretic and one of Europe's leading philosophers and biblical critics, he was "steeped in the common beliefs about the Bible from childhood on.

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Hebrew Union College Press

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0878201890

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9780878201891

Bibi

My Story

By: Benjamin Netanyahu

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Bibi

My Story

By: Benjamin Netanyahu

In Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's sweeping, moving autobiography, one of the most formidable and insightful leaders of our time tells the story of his family, his path to leadership, and his unceasing commitment to defending Israel and securing its future.

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Simon and Schuster

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1668008440

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9781668008447

Trading Nations

Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean

By: Benjamin Arbel

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Trading Nations

Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean

By: Benjamin Arbel

The unfolding of this relationship reveals new perspectives on the history of sixteenth-century Venice, on the social and economic history of the Jews, and on the history of the Ottoman Empire in its prime.

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9004100571

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Studies on the Jews of Venice, 1382–1797

Studies on the Jews of Venice, 1382–1797

Trading Nations

Trading Nations

Feminism, Family, and Identity in Israel

Feminism, Family, and Identity in Israel

Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah

Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah

Decision Making for Student Success

Decision Making for Student Success

Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean

Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean

Divided by Faith

Divided by Faith

Your Name Is Your Blessing

Your Name Is Your Blessing

Amsterdam's People of the Book

Amsterdam's People of the Book

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