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Ladino rabbinic literature and Ottoman Sephardic culture by Lehmann, Matthias B., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…forms of sociability -- The construction of the social order -- Three social types : the wealthy, the poor, the learned -- The representation of gender -- Understanding exile, setting boundaries -- The impossible homecoming -- Reincarnation and the discovery of history -- Scientific and rabbinic knowledge and the notion of change.…”
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Challenges of equality Judaism, state, and education in nineteenth-century France / by Haus, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…-- A tale of two cities: from Metz to Paris -- Challenges of equality: financial anticlericalism -- Jewish education and Jewish space -- "Just proportions": financial anticlericalism and rabbinical space.…”
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Rabbis and revolution the Jews of Moravia in the age of emancipation / by Miller, Michael Laurence

Table of Contents: “…From Premyslids to Habsburgs : Moravian Jewry in the "Land of Canaan" -- Rabbinic enlightenment : Mordechai Benet and the Moravian Haskalah, 1789-1829 -- Nehemias Trebitsch and the decline of the Moravian chief rabbinate, 1832-1842 -- Locking antlers : Hirsch Fassel, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and the forging of a new rabbinical ideal -- Conflict and revolution : Samson Raphael Hirsch and the politics of leadership, 1847-1849 -- On the altar of freedom : Moravian Jewry and the Revolution of 1848 -- Emancipation and its aftershocks : the reorganization of Moravian Jewry -- Drifting rabbis, shifting centers, and the burgeoning Czech-German conflict.…”
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