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Writing Plague

Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague

By: Susan L. Einbinder

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Writing Plague

Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague

By: Susan L. Einbinder

A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630–31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores the Hebrew texts that lay witness to the event. These Jewish sources on the Great Italian Plague have never been treated together as a group, Einbinder observes, but they can contribute to a bigger picture of this major outbreak and how it affected people, institutions, and beliefs; how individuals and institutions responded; and how they did or did not try to remember and memorialize it. High self-consciousness characterizes many of the authorial voices, and the sophisticated and deliberate ways these authors represented themselves reveal a complex process of self-fashioning that equally contours the representation and meaning of plague. Conversely, it is under the strain of plague that conventions of self-fashioning come to the fore. In the end, what proves most striking is how quickly these accounts retreated into obscurity. Why was this plague, which was among the most documented of all outbreaks since the Black Death of the fourteenth century, ultimately consigned to silence in Jewish memory? Did the memory take shape outside the written or material remains that we typically consult, in ephemeral forms that were lost over time? How much were the official genres of commemoration responsible for the erosion of historical particularity? How much did these conventionalized forms of mourning help individuals find language for private experience? And how, conversely, was private experience reconfigured to signify public grief? Throughout Writing Plague, Einbinder unearths and analyzes a cluster of little-known texts, reading them as much for the things about which they remain silent as for the things they seem openly to express. It is a compelling hybrid work of literary criticism and historical reflection about premodern constructions of self and community.

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Beautiful Death

Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France

By: Susan L. Einbinder

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Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France

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When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the laments reflecting the specific conditions of Jewish life in northern France. The poems offer insight into everyday life and into the ways medieval French Jews responded to persecution. They also suggest that poetry was used to encourage resistance to intensifying pressures to convert. The educated Jewish elite in northern France was highly acculturated. Their poetry--particularly that emerging from the innovative Tosafist schools--reflects their engagement with the vernacular renaissance unfolding around them, as well as conscious and unconscious absorption of Christian popular beliefs and hagiographical conventions. At the same time, their extraordinary poems signal an increasingly harsh repudiation of Christianity's sacred symbols and beliefs. They reveal a complex relationship to Christian culture as Jews internalized elements of medieval culture even while expressing a powerful revulsion against the forms and beliefs of Christian life. This gracefully written study crosses traditional boundaries of history and literature and of Jewish and general medieval scholarship. Focusing on specific incidents of persecution and the literary commemorations they produced, it offers unique insights into the historical conditions in which these poems were written and performed.

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Princeton University Press

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1400825253

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After the Black Death

Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews

By: Susan L. Einbinder

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After the Black Death

Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews

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In After the Black Death, Susan L. Einbinder uncovers Jewish responses to plague and violence in fourteenth-century Provence and Iberia, discovering a fundamental continuity in Jewish worldview and means of expression.

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0812250311

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No Place of Rest

Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France

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No Place of Rest

Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France

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No Place of Rest pursues the literary traces of the traumatic expulsion of Jews from France in 1306. Through careful readings of liturgical, philosophical, memorial, and medical texts, Susan Einbinder reveals how medieval Jews asserted their identity in exile.

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No Place of Rest

Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France

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Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France

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After the Black Death

Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews

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Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews

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Writing Plague

Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague

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Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague

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Beautiful Death

Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France

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Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France

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Writing Plague

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After the Black Death

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No Place of Rest

No Place of Rest

No Place of Rest

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After the Black Death

After the Black Death

Writing Plague

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