Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky

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Contents Foreword Note from the Editors Part 1: The Mediaeval Jewish Community 1 The Historical Background to the Ordinances on Family Affairs Attributed to Rabbenu Gershom Me’or ha-Golah (‘The Light of the Exile') 2 Sexual Behaviour in Mediaeval Hispano-Jewish Society 3 Rabbi Isaac Ha-Cohen of Manosque and His Son Rabbi Peretz: The Rabbinate and its Professionalization in the Fourteenth Century Part 2: Jewish Culture and Education 4 Transforming the Heder: Maskilic Politics in Imperial Russia 5 Anglicization and the Education of Jewish Immigrant Children in the East End of London 6 A Hebrew Island in the British Isles: Hayehoody and its Editor I. Suwalski (1897-1913) Part 3: Historiographical Issues 7 The Expulsion from Spain and Jewish Historiography 8 The Quest for Philo in Sixteenth-Century Jewish Historiography 9 Yiddish Song as Historical Source Material: Plague in the Judenstadt of Prague in 1713 10 Jewish Historiography in the United States and Britain Part 4: Perceptions of Jews in the Wider Society 11 The Romans and the Maccabees 12 English Charity and Jewish Qualms: The Rescue of the Ashkenazi Community of Seventeenth-Century Jerusalem 13 Gregorio Leti (1631—1701) and the Dutch Sephardi Elite at the Close of the Seventeenth Century 14 A Historiographical Oversight: The Austrian Consul-General and the Damascus Blood Libel (with the Laurin-Rothschild Correspondence, 1840) 15 Did the Russian Jacobins (Blanquists)1 Have a Special Attitude Towards the Jews Part 5: Linguistic Transmutations 16 A Mediaeval Latin-German Magical Text in Hebrew Characters 17 Pierre Leroux and the Book of Job 18 ‘Prinzessin Sabbat’ by H. Heine in a Yiddish Translation by H. N. Bialik. Part 6: Hasidism 19 Between Yesh and Ayin: the Doctrine of the Zaddik in the Works of Jacob Isaac, the Seer of Lublin 20 Self-sacrifice of the Zaddik in the Teachings of R. Dov Ber, the Mitteler Rebbe 21 On Women in Hasidism, S. A. Horodecky and The Maid of Ludmir Tradition Part 7: Jewish Socialism 22 Rosa Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches and the Jewish Labour Movement, 1893-1903 23 The Bund in Polish Political Life, 1935—1939 Part 8: Palestine and the Jewish National Movement 24 The Establishment of the Jewish Settlement in Eretz Israel and the Gaster Papers Appendix 25 Reflections on the Growth of the Jewish National Home, 1880-1948 26 Patterns oí Communal Conflict in Palestine 27 The Dynamics of Zionist Leftist Trends 28 Diplomacy in the Jewish Interest Notes on Contributors