Letters of Jews Through the Ages: From Biblical Times to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century, Volumen2Franz Kobler East and West Library, 1952 - 670 páginas |
Contenido
VOLUME | 331 |
so A Jewish merchant reports on life in Palestine | 337 |
An invitation from Turkey to Provence | 344 |
Elijah of Pesaro sets out for the Holy Land and settles | 351 |
The persecuted Jews of Cori decide to follow Joseph Nasis | 360 |
Rabbi Solomon Luria explains his way of praying | 368 |
Salamone Candia of Verona writes one of the earliest | 378 |
The story of Dom Antonio Prior of Crato the halfJewish pretender to the throne of Portugal in a letter of the Duke of Mytilene to the body physician ... | 381 |
Menasseh ben Israel describes his daily work in a learned but illfated letter to a Marrano | 504 |
Menasseh ben Israel reveals the idea of the Hope of Israel to a Puritan friend | 508 |
Menasseh ben Israel dedicates the Hope of Israel to the Fathers of the English Commonwealth | 509 |
Menasseh ben Israel offers thanks to a Christian mystic for his Happy Message for Israel | 511 |
Menasseh ben Israel asks the Jewish people to pray for the success of his mission to England | 514 |
The Humble Address is presented | 516 |
The Marranos of London confess their Hebrew origin | 519 |
Menasseh ben Israel heartbroken takes leave of England | 521 |
The Duke of Mytilenes envoy tries to save the life of Dr Rodrigo Lopez | 388 |
A letter of a Jewess from the Sultans harem to the Virgin Queen | 391 |
The tale of Safed the city of mystics in the letter of a Moravian Jew | 393 |
Leone da Modena the virtuoso of letterwriting | 400 |
Letters from early youth | 401 |
Two letters of friendship | 403 |
Invitation to the first sermon | 405 |
Leone da Modena as spokesman of the Community of Venice | 406 |
A strange letter of reconciliation | 409 |
Leone da Modena instructs his | 411 |
Leone da Modena wishes to see a regatta | 413 |
A Responsum to an English scholar | 414 |
Leone da Modena champions synagogal singing and music | 416 |
Elia da Montaltos attempt to win Pedro Rodrigues to Judaism | 428 |
Sara Copia Sullam vindicates her faith against temptation and calumny | 436 |
Sara Copia Sullam charged by Baldassar Bonifaccio with disbelief in the immortality of the soul clears herself of this suspicion | 442 |
Private letters from the Ghetto of Prague written on the threshold of the Thirty Years War | 449 |
Hanoch son of Israel Hamerschlag calls his married son home in order to devote himself to the study of the Torah | 450 |
Solomon son of Hayim tells his father of the learned men of Prague | 453 |
The Doctor of the Ghetto comforts his wife | 456 |
The letter of a bridegroom | 458 |
A soninlaw reports about the progress of lessons | 459 |
The admonition of a grandfather | 460 |
A child is born in the Ghetto | 462 |
The wife of Löb Sarel Gutmans pours out her heart to her husband | 464 |
The letter of an apprehensive sister | 469 |
Plain words of a mother | 472 |
A fashionable ladys coat is made in Prague | 473 |
The Jews of Prague intervene on behalf of a captured countryman | 474 |
Rabbi Isaiah Hurwitz of Prague settles in the Holy Land | 480 |
Joseph Solomon del Medigo instructs the Karaite Zerah ben Nathan | 486 |
Rabbi Sabbatai Cohen describes the massacres and martyr dom suffered by the Polish Jews in the years 1648 | 497 |
Menasseh ben Israels diplomatic messages to Jews and Gentiles | 503 |
Sabbatai Zevi welcomes his bride | 523 |
Messianic messages of Sabbatai Zevis Apostles | 525 |
Spinoza speaks with his friends from afar | 530 |
The first letter of Spinozas correspondence | 531 |
Spinoza contemplates human affairs in wartime | 533 |
Two Letters of Advice | 536 |
Spinoza exposes the fallacy of the charge that he teaches atheism | 539 |
Spinoza condemns the Machiavellian doctrine of a Prussian Chancellor | 544 |
Spinoza refuses the offer of the Prince Palatine to teach philosophy at the University of Heidelberg | 546 |
Spinoza elucidates his opinion about God 8 Spinoza draws distinctions between his opinion and the Christian faith in his last letters to Henry Oldenbu... | 551 |
How to study the Talmud 1 Back to the ancient Masters | 559 |
The proper method of study for Jewish youth | 560 |
How Glückel of Hameln addressed her Memoirs to her children and how she wrote a very diplomatic letter | 564 |
Joseph Süss Oppenheimer argues about his title to nobility | 571 |
Scenes from the lifedrama of Moses Hayim Luzzatto 574 1 Luzzatto describes his initiation | 574 |
The message of an Apostle | 575 |
The Indictment | 578 |
The faithful witness | 579 |
greetings from Eretz Israel | 587 |
How the Jews of the Diaspora fought the Empress Maria Theresa to avert the expulsion of the Jews from Prague | 590 |
The alarm from Prague | 591 |
Wolf Wertheimer takes the initiative in organizing the work of rescue | 592 |
The Jews of England approach the King | 593 |
Wolf Wertheimer seeks for connections with the Chancel lor of Bohemia | 596 |
Faithful response | 597 |
Venice comforts Prague | 599 |
Warnings of a pessimist | 601 |
Stirring news from the battlefield | 603 |
The outcry of the exiles | 607 |
Wertheimers last appeal to London | 608 |
Deliverance | 610 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 613 |
INDEX OF NAMES AND LETTERS 63353 613 | 647 |
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Letters of Jews Through the Ages: From Biblical Times to the ..., Volumen2 Franz Kobler Vista de fragmentos - 1953 |
Letters of Jews Through the Ages: From Biblical Times to the ..., Volumen2 Franz Kobler Vista de fragmentos - 1952 |