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Polin : Focusing on Jewish Religious Life, 1500-1900.

This volume highlights new research on Jewish spiritual and religious life in Poland before modern political ideas began to transform the Jewish world. It covers a range of topics. Three articles deal with rabbinic scholarship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and a fourth presents accounts...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Polonsky, Antony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The, 2002.
Colección:Polin Studies in Polish Jewry Ser.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This volume highlights new research on Jewish spiritual and religious life in Poland before modern political ideas began to transform the Jewish world. It covers a range of topics. Three articles deal with rabbinic scholarship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and a fourth presents accounts of Purim festivities at that time. The eighteenth-century studies focus on Jewish spirituality. Four articles deal with the Frankist movement, the main topics being Frankist propaganda; non-Christian Frankists; Jonathan Eibeschuetz and the Frankists; and the influence of Frankism on Polish culture.
Notas:Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw 1939-1945, with extracts from the diary of Wilm Hosenfeld.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (575 pages)
ISBN:9781909821668
1909821667