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Die Esthernovelle - Vom Erzählten zur Erzählung

Studien zur Traditions- und Redaktionsgeschichte des Estherbuches

By: Ruth Kossmann

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Die Esthernovelle - Vom Erzählten zur Erzählung

Studien zur Traditions- und Redaktionsgeschichte des Estherbuches

By: Ruth Kossmann

In this book the author attempts to unravel the original narratives which underlie the biblical Book of Esther. She reconstructs the contents of three non-Jewish narratives: A wedding story, in which the foreign beauty (Esther) takes the place of the disobedient queen, and two court narratives, telling the story of the rivalry between two courtiers at the Persian court. In exilic and postexilic times these basic narratives were merged into one topical and literarily well developed narrative, which expressed the problems connected with Jewish life in the diaspora. The author shows that this text has been redactionally revised once more, in an attempt to adjust Palestinian Judaism to the Jewish communities that flourished in the diaspora. This redaction bears the hallmarks of Judaism’s clash with Hellenised political forces; Purim emerges as a succesful defense.

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413

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BRILL

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9004276041

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9789004276048

Virtually Jewish

Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe

By: Ruth Ellen Gruber

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Virtually Jewish

Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe

By: Ruth Ellen Gruber

The author explores the phenomenon of the Jewish culture in Europe. In this book she askes in what way do non-Jews embrace and enact Jewish culture and for what reasons.

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320

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Univ of California Press

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0520213637

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9780520213630

The Jews of Germany

A Historical Portrait

By: Ruth Gay

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The Jews of Germany

A Historical Portrait

By: Ruth Gay

This unique book provides a panoramic overview of a now extinct culture: the 1500-year history of the Jews in Germany. Through texts, pictures, and contemporary accounts, it follows the German Jews from their first settlements on the Rhine in the fourth century to the destruction of the community in World War II. Using both voices and images of the past, the book reveals how the German Jews looked, how they lived, what they thought about, and what others thought of them. Ruth Gay's text, interwoven with passages from memoirs, letters, newspapers, and many other contemporary sources, shows how the German Jews organized their communities, created a new language (Yiddish), and built their special culture--all this under circumstances sometimes friendly, but often murderously hostile. The book explores the internal debates that agitated the community from medieval to modern times and analyzes how German Jewry emerged into the modern world. The earliest document in the book is a fourth-century decree by the Roman emperor Constantine permitting Jews to hold office in Cologne. Among the last are poignant letters from Betty Scholem in Berlin, writing during the Nazi years to her son Gershom in Palestine. In between are accounts of a ninth-century Jewish merchant appointed by Charlemagne to a diplomatic mission to Baghdad, a thirteenth-century Jewish minnesinger, a seventeenth-century pogrom in Frankfurt in which gentiles helped to save their Jewish neighbors, and the nineteenth-century innovation of department stores, palaces of consumerism. The book tells a story--moving, terrifying, and exhilarating--that must be remembered.

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Yale University Press

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0300060521

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9780300060522

U.S. Census

A Mirror of America

By: Ruth Kassinger

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U.S. Census

A Mirror of America

By: Ruth Kassinger

Recounts the history of the census in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present and describes the methods used to take it and how they have changed.

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Raintree

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0739812173

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Die Esthernovelle - Vom Erzählten zur Erzählung

Die Esthernovelle - Vom Erzählten zur Erzählung

Virtually Jewish

Virtually Jewish

The Jews of Germany

The Jews of Germany

U.S. Census

U.S. Census

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