Early modern Jewish civilization : unity and diversity in a diasporic society : an introduction / edited by David Graizbord.

Introduction: Continuities and discontinuities in the formation of a transoceanic diaspora, 1391-1789 / David Graizbord -- Who were the Jews of the pre-modern siaspora? / Jonathan Ray -- Ḥayei ha-Torah (The Life of Torah): rabbinic culture and the pre-modern heritage preserved and adapted / David Graizbord -- Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel): the homeland, its Jews, and their orienting influence / David Graizbord -- 'Umot ha-'Olam (The Nations of the Earth): relations with the other(s) -- Iberian Watersheds: the crisis of judeoconversos and the evolution of anti-Jewish bigotry / David Graizbord -- Iberian judeoconversos and Jews in medieval and early modern Iberian polemical tracts / Axel Kaplan-Szyld -- Jews and their non-Jewish hosts in an evolving diaspora / David Graizbord -- Kol Yisrael 'Arevim Zeh la-Zeh ("All Israel are Mutually Responsible"): self-government, economy, and the rise of new diasporic centers -- The Jews of the Italian Peninsula / Serena di Nepi -- The rise of new diasporic centers / Jessica Vance Roitman -- Tsena u-Re'ena (Go Out and See): the world of Jewish books / Noam Sienna -- Ḳabalah (Tradition): early modern Jewish mysticism as a devotional matrix of Jewish life / Roni Weinstein -- Minhagim: a window on popular culture / Yaron Nisenholz -- 'Erev Rav (A Mixed Multitude): class, gender, and ideological cleavages / Stanley Mirvis -- Ḥasidut and Haskalah (Pietism and Enlightenment): toward the watershed of modernity / Stanley Mirvis

"This collection is an introductory historical survey and selective cultural analysis of the development, coalescence, and eventual waning of a diasporic civilization-that of the Jews of the early modern period (ca. 1391-1789) in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and key nodes of the Iberian Empires in the Americas. Early Modern Jewish Civilization is essential reading for all students of Jewish history and civilization and early modern history more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.