Letters Of Jews Through The Ages
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Letters Of Jews Through The Ages
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Author : Franz Kobler
language : en
Publisher: London : Ararat Pub. Society
Release Date : 1953
Letters Of Jews Through The Ages written by Franz Kobler and has been published by London : Ararat Pub. Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Jewish letters categories.
Letters Of Jews Through The Ages
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Author : Franz Kobler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Letters Of Jews Through The Ages written by Franz Kobler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Jewish letters categories.
Letters Of Jews Through The Ages
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Author : Franz Kobler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978-06-01
Letters Of Jews Through The Ages written by Franz Kobler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-06-01 with Jewish letters categories.
Letters Of Medieval Jewish Traders
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Author : S. D. Goitein
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-08
Letters Of Medieval Jewish Traders written by S. D. Goitein and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-08 with Travel categories.
Modern international business has its origins in the overseas trade of the Middle Ages. Of the various communities active in trade in the Islamic countries at that time, records of only the Jewish community survive. Thousands of documents were preserved in the Cairo Geniza, a lumber room attached to the synagogue where discarded writings containing the name of God were deposited to preserve them from desecration. From them Professor Goitein has selected eighty letters that provide a fascinating glimpse into the world of the medieval Jewish traders. As the letters vividly illustrate, international trade depended on a network of personal relationships and mutual confidence. Organization was largely through partnerships, based usually on ties of common religion but often reinforced by family connections. Sometimes the partners of Jews were Christians or Muslims, and the letters show these merchants working together in greater harmony than has been thought, even in partnerships that lasted through generations. The services rendered to a friend or partner and those expected from him were great, and the book opens with an angry letter from a merchant who believed he had been let down by his friend. The life of a trader was full of dangers, as the letter describing a shipwreck illustrates, and put great strain on personal relationships. One of the most moving letters is that written to his wife by a man absent in India for many years while endeavoring to make the family's fortunes. Although never ceasing to love her and longing to be with her, he offers to divorce her if she feels she can wait for him no longer. A decisive event in the life of the great Jewish philosopher, Moses Maimonides, was the death of his brother David, who drowned in the Indian Ocean. Printed here is the last letter David wrote, describing his safe crossing of the desert and announcing his intention to go on to India, against his brother's instructions. Professor Goitein has provided an introduction and notes for each letter, and a general introduction describing the social and spiritual world of the writers, the organization of overseas trade in the Middle Ages, and the goods traded. The letters demonstrate that although it reached from Spain to India, the traders' world was a cohesive one through which these men could move freely and always feel at home. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
A Bintel Brief
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Author : Isaac Metzker
language : en
Publisher: Schocken
Release Date : 2011-03-09
A Bintel Brief written by Isaac Metzker and has been published by Schocken this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-09 with History categories.
For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants learn about their new country, the column also gave them a forum for seeking advice and support in the face of problems ranging from wrenching spiritual dilemmas to petty family squabbles to the sometimes hilarious predicaments that result when Old World meets New. Isaac Metzker's beloved selection of these letters and responses has become for today's readers a remarkable oral record not only of the varied problems of Jewish immigrant life in America but also of the catastrophic events of the first half of our century. Foreword and Notes by Harry Golden
Letters To Auntie Fori
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Author : Martin Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: Orion
Release Date : 2002
Letters To Auntie Fori written by Martin Gilbert and has been published by Orion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Jews categories.
Some time ago, an elderly Indian friend of Martin Gilbert's, known to him as Auntie Fori, revealed that she was actually Jewish and asked him to recommend a history of the Jews. He decided to write it for her, in letter form, week by week, which he did. This book is the result.
Living Letters Of The Law
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Author : Jeremy Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-11-11
Living Letters Of The Law written by Jeremy Cohen and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-11 with History categories.
"Well, clearly, and articulately written, Living Letters of the Law is among the most important books in medieval European history generally, as well as in its particular field."—Edward Peters, author of The First Crusade
Maurice Samuel
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Author : Alan T. Levenson
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2022-08-02
Maurice Samuel written by Alan T. Levenson and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"This short intellectual biography reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century, the Rumanian-born, English-educated, American belletrist Maurice Samuel. Although he spoke in a staccato Midlands accent, Samuel left Manchester, England in 1913, joined the American Army, served in military intelligence in World War I, and became a United States citizen. Samuel resettled his family in Palestine in 1929, then returned to the US, and spent his most creative years in New York City. A diaspora intellectual, or "rootless cosmopolitan," as Alan Levenson describes him, Samuel made an indelible mark on many features of contemporary Jewish thought and culture"--
Letters Of Medieval Jewish Traders
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Author : S. D. Goitein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Letters Of Medieval Jewish Traders written by S. D. Goitein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Travel categories.
Modern international business has its origins in the overseas trade of the Middle Ages. Of the various communities active in trade in the Islamic countries at that time, records of only the Jewish community survive. Thousands of documents were preserved in the Cairo Geniza, a lumber room attached to the synagogue where discarded writings containing the name of God were deposited to preserve them from desecration. From them Professor Goitein has selected eighty letters that provide a fascinating glimpse into the world of the medieval Jewish traders. As the letters vividly illustrate, international trade depended on a network of personal relationships and mutual confidence. Organization was largely through partnerships, based usually on ties of common religion but often reinforced by family connections. Sometimes the partners of Jews were Christians or Muslims, and the letters show these merchants working together in greater harmony than has been thought, even in partnerships that lasted through generations. The services rendered to a friend or partner and those expected from him were great, and the book opens with an angry letter from a merchant who believed he had been let down by his friend. The life of a trader was full of dangers, as the letter describing a shipwreck illustrates, and put great strain on personal relationships. One of the most moving letters is that written to his wife by a man absent in India for many years while endeavoring to make the family's fortunes. Although never ceasing to love her and longing to be with her, he offers to divorce her if she feels she can wait for him no longer. A decisive event in the life of the great Jewish philosopher, Moses Maimonides, was the death of his brother David, who drowned in the Indian Ocean. Printed here is the last letter David wrote, describing his safe crossing of the desert and announcing his intention to go on to India, against his brother's instructions. Professor Goitein has provided an introduction and notes for each letter, and a general introduction describing the social and spiritual world of the writers, the organization of overseas trade in the Middle Ages, and the goods traded. The letters demonstrate that although it reached from Spain to India, the traders' world was a cohesive one through which these men could move freely and always feel at home. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Letters To The Jews
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Author : Joseph Priestley
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-01-22
Letters To The Jews written by Joseph Priestley and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-22 with Religion categories.
Excerpt from Letters to the Jews: Inviting Them to an Amicable Discussion of the Evidences of Christianity It may be proper to Obfeive, that the word Cbri/i, In this \work, is Med only as a proper name, to dehnte the founder Of the chrifiian religionpand not as fynqnymous to Mfimfi, though it was originally. Nothing more. Than a tranflation of that word into Greek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.