Classic Essays on Jews in Early Modern Europe

Jonathan Karp is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Binghampton University SUNY, USA.Francesca Trivellato is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Modern European History at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, NJ, USA.

• Series Introduction: Classic Essays in Jewish History - Kenneth StowVolume Introduction: A Jewish 'Early Modern Period' Avant la Lettre? - Jonathan Karp and Francesca TrivellatoChapter 1: "European and Jewish History: Do Their Epochs Coincide?" - Cecil RothChapter 2: "Ghetto and Emancipation: Shall We Revise the Traditional View?" - Salo W. BaronChapter 3: "Marriage and Sexual Life at the Close of the Middle Ages" - Jacob KatzChapter 4: "The Woman of the Ghetto: Part I" - Selma Stern Chapter 5: "The Marranos" - I.S. RévahChapter 6: "The Shebet Yehudah and Sixteenth Century Historiography" - Abraham A. NeumanChapter 7: "The Amazing Abraham Colorni" - Cecil RothChapter 8: "Baptisms of the Jews of Rome from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries" - Attilio MilanoChapter 9: "Why Was Spinoza Banned?" - Jacob L. Teicher Chapter 10: "Poland’s Council of the Four Lands and its Relations with Local Jewish Community Governments" - Simon DubnowChapter 11: "‘De Non Tolerandis Judaeis’: On the Introduction of the Anti-Jewish Laws into Polish Towns and the Struggle Against Them" - Jacob GoldbergChapter 12: "The Court Jews: Prelude to Emancipation" - Francis L. CarstenChapter 13: "The Emergence of General Education among German Jews before Mendelssohn" - Joseph EschelbacherChapter 14: "German Pietism and the Jews" - Koppel S. PinsonChapter 15: "The Attitude of the Enlightenment Toward the Jew" - Paul H. Meyer Chapter 16: "The Economic Activities of the Jews" - Shmuel EttingerChapter 17: "Modern Capitalism and Jewish Fate" - Salo W. Baron Index