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Israel Abrahams (1858–1925)

Autor(a) de Jewish Life in the Middle Ages

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About the Author

Israel Abrahams (1858-1924) was a preeminent English scholar. A reader in rabbinic and talmudic literature at Cambridge, he was a pivotal figure in English intellectual life. A community leader, literary reviewer, and editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review, Abrahams was the author of many essays and mostrar mais books mostrar menos

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Obras de Israel Abrahams

Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (1896) 203 cópias
Hebrew ethical wills (1926) 78 cópias
Maimonides (1903) 53 cópias
The Legacy of Israel (1927) 48 cópias
By-Paths in Hebraic Bookland (1920) 38 cópias
Judaism (1907) 31 cópias
Hebrew Ethical Wills Part 1 (1948) 12 cópias

Associated Works

Chosen Peoples: The Hebraic Ideal Versus The Teutonic (1918) — Posfácio — 8 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Abrahams, Israel
Data de nascimento
1858-11-26
Data de falecimento
1925-10-6
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
Local de nascimento
London, England, UK
Local de falecimento
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Educação
Jews' College
University College London
University of London (MA)
Ocupação
author
teacher
scholar
Organizações
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Jewish Quarterly Review
Jewish Historical Society of London
Cambridge University
Pequena biografia
Israel Abrahams was born in London. His father Barnett Abrahams was a rabbinical scholar and principal of Jews' College, now the London School of Jewish Studies. Israel Abrahams was educated at Jews' College and University College, London, and earned a master's degree from the University of London.He wrote a number of classic works on Jewish history and literature, including Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (1896) and Chapters on Jewish Literature (1899).

He also taught for several years at Jews’ College before succeeding Solomon Schechter as reader in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his death. From 1888 to 1908 he was co-editor with Claude Montefiore of the Jewish Quarterly Review.

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That’s “Israel” as in the people. What we have here is a collection of essays from various hands that explores the cultural influence of Jews on the cultures around them over time. It’s very much a cross-party affair with contributors Jewish and Christian. On the whole it’s an interesting and enjoyable read, but not all essays are to the same standard.

I was particularly looking forward to “The Influence of Judaism on Islam”, as I’m interested in both religions. Ironically, this turned out to be the worst of the bunch. It’s full of snide and contemptuous comments about Mohammed and Muslims generally, and the author makes racist comments about Arabs. I also noticed a few factual errors. The fuck? If I wanted to hear this sort of thing I’d go down the pub. Those errors and the hostility made me doubt the truth of a lot of what he was telling me. I did actually consider once or twice if he were deliberately lying. The author was a professor at Durham. That’s a good university.

The antidote to that sort of thing is the very next essay where the Singers are able to discuss the interplay of Judaism and Islam in a completely normal and grown up kind of a way. In fact, the following three essays (two by the Singers and one by no less a personage than G H Box) are particularly good. In a series of thumbnail sketches of writers and their work they trace European history from the pit of the Dark Ages through to the Renaissance. Very interesting to see this sweep of time from a new perspective.

So on the whole worth dipping in to. You’ll definitely learn something and will be able to impress your friends, or your mother, if you don’t have any friends.

There’s also a very good essay on Judaism in the Hellenistic period by Edwyn Bevan that really falls outside the remit of the book, but is the kind of thing you can get away with if you’re the co-editor.

The Epilogue, by C G Montefiore, talks about his hopes and fears for the future of Judaism in Europe. It’s interesting, but not an easy read, looking back on his words from the other side of the Holocaust.
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Lukerik | Jan 12, 2020 |
I like the Kabbalah chapters. The other chapters are a little boring although it is amazing how many physicians in these chapters were also other things. One was also a rabbi. Others were poets. Personally as cool as being a rabbi sounds, when would one have time to write a sermon and run a synagogue with all the patients around? Is this something that is possible for me?
 
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melsmarsh | Feb 13, 2013 |
NO OF PAGES: 452 SUB CAT I: European Jews SUB CAT II: Jewish Life SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: Jewish life in the Middle Ages was hidden from the inquisitive, and not infrequently hostile, gaze of Christian Europe. It was carried on under unsettled and shifting conditions. Though it enjoyed stability, its stability derived less from the outside world than from the resources which Jewish tradition had bequeathed. Its social institutions, amusements, cultural life, family and home life, traditions of love and courtship, dress, theatre, schools and educational system represented first and foremost an effort to preserve the vitalities of Jewish culture. Inescapably its dispersion throughout the European Diaspora produced an effort, often successful, to accommodate agreeable aspects of European life. The rise of a secular poetic tradition, the Jewish troubadour, and chivalric tradition represent such an accommodation. It is to the exposure of the richness, display, and fullness of medieval Jewish life that the great English scholar, Israel Abrahams, has directed his efforts in "Jewish Life in the Middle Ages". Reprinted innumerable times, but unfortunately unavailable for the past few years, it is a pleasure to make "Jewish Life in the Middle Ages" available once more.NOTES: Donated by Dale and Karen Blackwood. SUBTITLE:… (mais)
 
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BeitHallel | Feb 18, 2011 |

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Membros
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Resenhas
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ISBNs
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