Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5117/SR2021.1.001.RAUS
Sina Rauschenbach
Abstract Studies in the Jewish reception of Christian theological discussions beyond the proper field of polemics are rare and only in their beginnings. Until now, scholars have often argued that Portuguese Jews discussed Christian concepts of divine foreknowledge and human free will because they were either struggling with their own Christian past or sought to help their ‘New Jewish’ coreligionists to turn into reliable members of the Amsterdam Sephardic community. This article uses the example of the Catholic Controversia de auxiliis, and the Protestant fight over Predestination before and after the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) to argue that Portuguese Jews such as Menasseh ben Israel and Daniel Levi de Barrios recognised the cross-confessional dimension of the Christian debates on divine grace; they used their Iberian background and knowledge to order and explain what they observed; and they displayed their position as outsiders to deconstruct religious boundaries, imagine alternative religious landscapes, and finally re-insert themselves into their newly created religious maps and orders. The argument is based on a close reading of one chapter of the last volume of Menasseh ben Israel’s Conciliador (1651) as well as Daniel Levi de Barrios’s poem Libre Alvedrio y Harmonia del Cuerpo, por disposicion del alma (1680).
研究犹太人接受基督教神学讨论超出适当的论战领域是罕见的，只是在他们的开始。到目前为止，学者们经常认为葡萄牙犹太人讨论基督教的神圣预知和人类自由意志的概念，因为他们要么是在与自己的基督教历史作斗争，要么是在寻求帮助他们的“新犹太人”同教者成为阿姆斯特丹西班牙系犹太人社区的可靠成员。本文以天主教的辅助争论(arguma de auxiliis)和新教在多特主教会议(1618-1619)前后对宿命论的争论为例，论证葡萄牙犹太人，如Menasseh ben Israel和Daniel Levi de Barrios，认识到基督教关于神圣恩典的辩论的跨忏悔维度;他们利用他们的伊比利亚背景和知识来整理和解释他们所观察到的;他们以局外人的身份来解构宗教界限，想象不同的宗教景观，最终将自己重新插入到他们新创造的宗教地图和秩序中。这一论点是基于对《以色列的和解》(1651年)最后一卷《玛拿西》的一章的仔细阅读，以及丹尼尔·利瓦伊·德·巴里奥斯(Daniel Levi de Barrios)的诗歌《自由的阿尔韦德里奥与和谐的爱情》(1680年)。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5117/SR2021.1.005.ISRA
J. Israel
{"title":"Carsten Wilke, ed. Isaac Orobio: The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt, Studies and Texts in Scepticism vol. 2. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. vi + 128 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-057561-3 (hardcover), 978-3-11-057619-1 (open access pdf).","authors":"J. Israel","doi":"10.5117/SR2021.1.005.ISRA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/SR2021.1.005.ISRA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80444455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5117/SR2021.1.008.SPOH
Jesse A. Spohnholz
{"title":"Adam Teller, Rescuing the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.","authors":"Jesse A. Spohnholz","doi":"10.5117/SR2021.1.008.SPOH","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/SR2021.1.008.SPOH","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73698615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5117/SR2021.1.002.NADL
Steven M. Nadler
Abstract This article discusses Rembrandt’s etchings for Menasseh ben Israel’s Piedra Gloriosa (1655). After a brief review of the content of Menasseh’s book and of the scholarly discussion over an alleged collaboration between Menasseh and Rembrandt, the article examines how many known copies of the book actually have Rembrandt’s etchings, and whether their replacement by engravings by another artist represents a second edition.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5117/SR2021.1.007.ALBE
A. Albert
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5117/SR2021.1.003.ZAID
Daniella Zaidman-Mauer
Abstract One of the most fascinating products of late antique Judaism is Pereq Shira, a collection of hymns sung by an assortment of God’s creatures in His praise. Thus far ample research has been conducted mostly into the manuscript traditions of Pereq Shira. The early modern Amsterdam Yiddish print editions have, however, escaped extensive analysis. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the paratexts of both the Yiddish and the Hebrew Amsterdam stand-alone Pereq Shira editions (1692). My main methodology will be a paratextual analysis, using the theory developed by Gerard Genette and introduced into the field of early modern Yiddish studies by the late Shlomo Berger. The spiritual utility of the book in Yiddish is at the forefront, explaining its potential audience how the book would enhance their religious observance. This research is located at the intersection of the study of early modern Ashkenaz, Amsterdam book history and Yiddish scholarship. This article introduces and examines the paratexts of the Amsterdam Yiddish and Hebrew Pereq Shira editions (1692), and reinforces the process of transmission of piety in early modern Ashkenaz through Yiddish.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5117/SR2021.1.004.SCHO
Jenneken Schouten
Abstract This article is an analysis of the memorbukh of the Jewish community in the Dutch village of Oisterwijk, Brabant. The manuscript was written in 1770 as part of a protocol book by the community’s rabbi Yekutiel Ziskind Rofe, who had come to Oisterwijk in 1757. The genre of memorbikher started as a response to the large-scale persecutions of Jews at the time of the First Crusade in 1096, the Rindfleisch persecutions of 1298, and the persecutions at the time of the Black Death. In the late medieval and early modern period, the genre was incorporated into the liturgy of Ashkenazic synagogues. The memorbukh from Oisterwijk is an example of an early modern memorbukh. The author of this particular memorbukh wrote it in order to bind together his new community, which was still a young community upon his arrival in 1769, as Jews had only begun to settle in Oisterwijk in the 1750s. The author therefore wanted to create a new communal memory that would bind together all the members, despite their different backgrounds.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5117/sr2020.1-2.001.pref
B. Wallet, I. Zwiep, D. Wertheim, Rachel Boertjens
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Imagine the following scenario: A young scholar from Vilna, having wandered through several cities in Eastern Europe and Germany arrived in the city of the Hague at the close of the 1780s, enjoyed the material support of the richest family of Jewish merchants in the city, the Boaz family, and sought and gained the religious approval of the rabbi of the city, Judah Leib Mezerich. His name was Pinhas Elijah ben Meir Hurwitz (1765-1821) and he was about to complete the first draft of a manuscript of his soon-tobe published book, an encyclopedia of the sciences entitled Sefer ha-Brit (The Book of the Covenant).1 The young Hurwitz soon learned of the presence of an aging sage who lived in the city, a rigorous philosopher and émigré from Mainz, Naphtali Herz Ulman (1731-87). Ulman had completed a multivolume philosophic opus of which only the first volume, Hokhmat ha-shorashim [The Science of Roots or First Principles], had been published in 1781.2 Hurwitz was hardly a philosopher in his own right; in fact he had been drawn to the study of the kabbalah. But he did share something in common with Ulman — an appreciation of the life of the mind and particularly a fascination for the natural world and the new sciences, and they were both Ashkenazic Jews with knowledge of the German language.3 It seemed natural that Hurwitz would seek out Ulman and converse with the major intellectual figure of Hague Jewry. Disciplines European History | History | Intellectual History | Jewish Studies This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/history_papers/60 STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA 44 (2012), 221-239 doi: 10.2143/SR.44.0.2189618 The Hague Dialogues*
想象一下下面的场景:一位来自维尔纳的年轻学者，游历了东欧和德国的几个城市，在18世纪80年代末到达了海牙市，享受了该市最富有的犹太商人家族波阿斯家族的物质支持，并寻求并获得了该市拉比犹大·莱布·梅泽里奇的宗教认可。他的名字叫平哈斯·以利亚·本·梅尔·赫尔维茨(1765-1821)，他即将完成他即将出版的一本书的初稿，那是一本名为《契约之书》的科学百科全书年轻的赫尔维茨很快得知，城里住着一位年迈的圣人，他是一位严谨的哲学家，来自美因茨的移民，名叫纳弗塔利·赫兹·乌尔曼(1731-87)。乌尔曼完成了一部多卷本的哲学著作，其中只有第一卷Hokhmat ha-shorashim(根或基本原理的科学)于1781年出版。事实上，他已经被卡巴拉的研究所吸引。但他确实和乌尔曼有一些共同之处——对精神生活的欣赏，尤其是对自然世界和新科学的迷恋，他们都是懂德语的德系犹太人赫维茨找到乌尔曼，并与海牙犹太人的主要知识分子交谈，这似乎是很自然的。欧洲历史|历史|思想史|犹太研究本文可在ScholarlyCommons获取:https://repository.upenn.edu/history_papers/60 STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA 44 (2012)， 221-239 doi: 10.2143/SR.44.0.2189618海牙对话*
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