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Tradition and crisis: Jewish society at the end of the Middle Ages
Jacob Katz and Bernard Dov Cooperman
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Frontmatter
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Translator's Foreword (page ix)
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Preface (page xi)
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Preface to the First Edition (page xiii)
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A Note on Transliteration (page xvii)
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PART I THE BASIS OF EXISTENCE (page 1)
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1 Definition of Our Subject (page 3)
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2 Jewish Society and Its Environment (page 10)
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3 Barriers against the Outside (page 17)
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4 Contact with the Surrounding Society (page 26)
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5 The Attitude toward the Environment (page 31)
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6 Economic Structures (page 38)
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7 Sociological Aspects of Jewish Capitalism (page 44)
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8 Religion and Economic Activity (page 52)
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PART II COMMUNAL INSTITUTIONS AND STRUCTURE (page 63)
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9 The Form and Structure of the Kehila (page 65)
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10 The Kehila's Range of Activities (page 76)
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11 The Composition of the Kehila (page 88)
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12 Inter-communal Relations (page 95)
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13 Supra-Kehila Organizations (page 103)
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The Family (page 113)
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15 The Extended Family (page 125)
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16 Confraternities and Social Life (page 132)
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17 Religious Institutions (page 141)
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18 Educational Institutions (page 156)
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19 Stratification and Mobility (page 170)
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PART III THE BEGINNINGS OF BREAKDOWN (page 181)
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20 The Impact of Historical Events (page 183)
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21 Historic Turning Points (page 195)
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22 The Transition to Hasidism (page 202)
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23 The Emergence of the Neutral Society (page 214)
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24 The Haskala's Vision of the Future (page 226)
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AFTERWORD: TRADITION AND CRISIS and the Study of Early Modern Jewish History (Bernard Dov Cooperman, page 237)
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Notes (page 255)
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Bibliography (page 361)
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Index (page 383)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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SP | 37.4 (Oct.1962): 624-629 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2850260 |
THIS | 57.1 (Autumm. 1994): 171 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/24449216 |
RRR | 4.1 (Autumn. 1962): 61-63 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3509874 |
SHO | 12.3 (Spring. 1994): 151-152 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/42942022 |
JS | 21.4 (Oct. 1959): 249-251 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4465725 |
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Published: 2000
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- 9780815628279 (paper)