Letters of Jews Through the Ages: From Biblical Times to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century, Volumen2

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Franz 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
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