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JEWISH HISTORY International Advisory Board: Salo Baron, Isaiah Berlin, Shmuel Ettinger and Arnaldo Momigliano. JEWISH HISTORY Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky Edited by Ada Rapoport-Albert and Steven J. Zipperstein Foreword by Isaiah Berlin lh PETER HALBAN LONDON I FIRST PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY PETER HALBAN PUBLISHERS LTD 42 South Molton Street London wiy ihb 1988 AU rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Jewish history: essays in honour of Chimen Abramsky. I. Jews to 1986 I. Zipperstein, Steven J. II. Rapoport-Albert, Ada III. Abramsky, Chimen 9*0409914 ISBN 1-87001-519-3 Copyright © by each contributor, 1988 Introduction Copyright © by Ada Rapoport-Albert A Steven J. Zipperstein, 1988 Typeset at Oxford University Computing Service Printed in Great Britain by WBC Print Ltd, Bristol Contents Foreword ix Isaiah Berlin Note from the Editors xi Ada Rapoport-Albert and Steven J. Zipperstein i THE MEDIAEVAL JEWISH COMMUNITY I. The Historical Background to the Ordinances on Family Affairs 3 Attributed to Rabbenu Gershom Me’or ha-Golah (‘The Light of the Exile’) Avraham Grossman 2. Sexual Behaviour in Mediaeval Hispano-Jcwish Society 25 Yom Tov Assis 3. Rabbi Isaac Ha-Cohen of Manosque and His Son Rabbi Peretz: 61 The Rabbinate and its Professionalization in the Fourteenth Century Joseph Shatzmiller 2 JEWISH CULTURE AND EDUCATION 4. Transforming the Heder: Maskilic Politics in Imperial Russia 87 Steven J. Zipperstein 5. Anglicization and the Education of Jewish Immigrant Children 111 in the East End of London Suzanne Kirsch Greenberg 6. A Hebrew Island in the British Isles: Hayehoody and its Editor 127 I. Suwalski (1897-1913) Risa Domb 3 HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ISSUES 7. The Expulsion from Spain and Jewish Historiography 141 Eleazar Gutuñrth 8. The Quest for Philo in Sixteenth-Century Jewish 163 Historiography Joanna Weinberg 9. Yiddish Song as Historical Source Material: Plague in the 189 Judenstadt of Prague in 1713 Chava Tumiansky V io. Jewish Historiography in the United States and Britain 199 Lloyd P. Gartner 4 PERCEPTIONS OF JEWS IN THE WIDER SOCIETY ii. The Romans and the Maccabees 231 Arnaldo Momigliano 12. English Charity and Jewish Qualms: The Rescue of the 24s Ashkenazi Community of Seventeenth-Century Jerusalem David Katz 13. Gregorio Leti (1631-1701) and the Dutch Sephardi Elite at the 267 Close of the Seventeenth Century Jonathan Israel 14. A Historiographical Oversight: The Austrian Consul-General 285 and the Damascus Blood Libel (with the Laurin-Rothschild Correspondence, 1840) Jonathan Frankel i $■ Did the Russian Jacobins (Blanquists) Have a Special Attitude 319 Towards the Jews? Moshe Mishkinsky 5 LINGUISTIC TRANSMUTATIONS 16. A Mediaeval Latin-German Magical Text in Hebrew 345 Characters Raphael Loewe 17. Pierre Leroux and the Book ofjob 369 Anita Haimon-Weitzman 18. ‘Prinzessin Sabbat* by H. Heine in a Yiddish Translation by 379 H.N. Bialik Chone Shmeruk 6 HASIDISM 19. Between Yesh and Ayin: The Doctrine of the Zaddik in the 393 Works ofjacob Isaac, the Seer of Lublin Rachel Elior 20. Self-sacrifice of the Zaddik in the Teachings of R. Dov Ber, 457 the Mitteler Rebbe Naftali Loewenthal 21. On Women in Hasidism: S.A. Horodecky and The Maid 495 of Ludmir Tradition Ada Rapoport-Albert 7 JEWISH SOCIALISM 22. Rosa Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches and the Jewish Labour 529 Movement, 1893-1903 Robert S. Wistrich vi 23. The Bund in Polish Political Life, I935~i939 547 Antony Polonsky 8 PALESTINE AND THE JEWISH NATIONAL MOVEMENT 24. The Establishment of the Jewish Settlement in Eretz Israel and 581 die Gaster Papers Ron Aaronsohn and Yehoshua Beit Arieh 25. Reflections on the Growth of the Jewish National Home, 1880-1948 595 Jehuda Reinharz 26. Patterns of Communal Conflict in Palestine 611 Bernard Wasserstein 27. The Dynamics of Zionist Leftist Trends 629 Anita Shapira 28. Diplomacy in the Jewish Interest 683 David Vital Notes on Contributors 697 vii
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