Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky

714 Pages·1988·24.147 MB·English

by  Ada Rapoport-Albert, Steven J. Zipperstein

JEWISH HISTORY
International Advisory Board: Salo Baron, Isaiah Berlin,
Shmuel Ettinger and Arnaldo Momigliano.

JEWISH HISTORY
Essays in Honour of
Chimen Abramsky
Edited by
Ada Rapoport-Albert and
Steven J. Zipperstein
Foreword by
Isaiah Berlin
lh
PETER HALBAN
LONDON
I
FIRST PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
PETER HALBAN PUBLISHERS LTD
42 South Molton Street
London wiy ihb
1988
AU rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the
Publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Jewish history: essays in honour of Chimen Abramsky.
I. Jews to 1986
I. Zipperstein, Steven J. II. Rapoport-Albert, Ada
III. Abramsky, Chimen
9*0409914
ISBN 1-87001-519-3
Copyright © by each contributor, 1988
Introduction Copyright © by Ada
Rapoport-Albert A Steven J. Zipperstein, 1988
Typeset at Oxford University Computing Service
Printed in Great Britain by
WBC Print Ltd, Bristol
Contents
Foreword ix
Isaiah Berlin
Note from the Editors xi
Ada Rapoport-Albert and Steven J. Zipperstein
i THE MEDIAEVAL JEWISH COMMUNITY
I. The Historical Background to the Ordinances on Family Affairs 3
Attributed to Rabbenu Gershom Me’or ha-Golah (‘The Light
of the Exile’)
Avraham Grossman
2. Sexual Behaviour in Mediaeval Hispano-Jcwish Society 25
Yom Tov Assis
3. Rabbi Isaac Ha-Cohen of Manosque and His Son Rabbi Peretz: 61
The Rabbinate and its Professionalization in the Fourteenth Century
Joseph Shatzmiller
2 JEWISH CULTURE AND EDUCATION
4. Transforming the Heder: Maskilic Politics in Imperial Russia 87
Steven J. Zipperstein
5. Anglicization and the Education of Jewish Immigrant Children 111
in the East End of London
Suzanne Kirsch Greenberg
6. A Hebrew Island in the British Isles: Hayehoody and its Editor 127
I. Suwalski (1897-1913)
Risa Domb
3 HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ISSUES
7. The Expulsion from Spain and Jewish Historiography 141
Eleazar Gutuñrth
8. The Quest for Philo in Sixteenth-Century Jewish 163
Historiography
Joanna Weinberg
9. Yiddish Song as Historical Source Material: Plague in the 189
Judenstadt of Prague in 1713
Chava Tumiansky
V
io. Jewish Historiography in the United States and Britain 199
Lloyd P. Gartner
4 PERCEPTIONS OF JEWS IN THE WIDER SOCIETY
ii. The Romans and the Maccabees 231
Arnaldo Momigliano
12. English Charity and Jewish Qualms: The Rescue of the 24s
Ashkenazi Community of Seventeenth-Century Jerusalem
David Katz
13. Gregorio Leti (1631-1701) and the Dutch Sephardi Elite at the 267
Close of the Seventeenth Century
Jonathan Israel
14. A Historiographical Oversight: The Austrian Consul-General 285
and the Damascus Blood Libel (with the Laurin-Rothschild
Correspondence, 1840)
Jonathan Frankel
i $■ Did the Russian Jacobins (Blanquists) Have a Special Attitude 319
Towards the Jews?
Moshe Mishkinsky
5 LINGUISTIC TRANSMUTATIONS
16. A Mediaeval Latin-German Magical Text in Hebrew 345
Characters
Raphael Loewe
17. Pierre Leroux and the Book ofjob 369
Anita Haimon-Weitzman
18. ‘Prinzessin Sabbat* by H. Heine in a Yiddish Translation by 379
H.N. Bialik
Chone Shmeruk
6 HASIDISM
19. Between Yesh and Ayin: The Doctrine of the Zaddik in the 393
Works ofjacob Isaac, the Seer of Lublin
Rachel Elior
20. Self-sacrifice of the Zaddik in the Teachings of R. Dov Ber, 457
the Mitteler Rebbe
Naftali Loewenthal
21. On Women in Hasidism: S.A. Horodecky and The Maid 495
of Ludmir Tradition
Ada Rapoport-Albert
7 JEWISH SOCIALISM
22. Rosa Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches and the Jewish Labour 529
Movement, 1893-1903
Robert S. Wistrich
vi
23. The Bund in Polish Political Life, I935~i939 547
Antony Polonsky
8 PALESTINE AND THE JEWISH NATIONAL MOVEMENT
24. The Establishment of the Jewish Settlement in Eretz Israel and 581
die Gaster Papers
Ron Aaronsohn and Yehoshua Beit Arieh
25. Reflections on the Growth of the Jewish National Home, 1880-1948 595
Jehuda Reinharz
26. Patterns of Communal Conflict in Palestine 611
Bernard Wasserstein
27. The Dynamics of Zionist Leftist Trends 629
Anita Shapira
28. Diplomacy in the Jewish Interest 683
David Vital
Notes on Contributors 697
vii