The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 7, The Early Modern World, 1500-1815

Description

This seventh volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, from 1500 to 1815. The essays, written by an international team of scholars, situate the Jewish experience in relation to the multiple political, intellectual and cultural currents of the period. They also explore and problematize the 'modernization' of world Jewry over this period from a global perspective, covering Jews in the Islamic world and in the Americas, as well as in Europe, with many chapters straddling the conventional lines of division between Sephardic, Ashkenazic, and Mizrahi history. The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative work in this field currently available, this volume will serve as an essential reference tool and ideal point of entry for advanced students and scholars of early modern Jewish history.

Jonathan Karp is Associate Professor, History and Judaic Studies Departments at State University of New York, Binghamton. He is the author of The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638-1848 (Cambridge, 2008), and the co-editor, with Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, of The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (2007) and, with Adam Sutcliffe, of Philosemitism in History (Cambridge, 2011). He has published articles and essays on a wide range of topics, with a particular focus on Jewish economic life, Jews and music, and Jewish-Christian relations. Adam Sutcliffe is Reader in European History, Department of History at King's College London. He is the author of Judaism and Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2003), and the co-editor of Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture: From a-Andalus to the Haskalah (with Ross Brann, 2004) and of Philosemitism in History (with Jonathan Karp, Cambridge, 2011). He has published numerous articles and essays on various aspects of early modern Jewish history and intellectual history, particularly on the place of Jewish themes and issues in European thought from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries.