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- catalog abstract ""The book begins with the medieval images of converts from Judaism and traces the hurdles to social acceptance that they encountered in Germany through early modern times. Carlebach examines the converts' complicated search for community, a quest that was to characterize much of Jewish modernity, and she concludes with a consideration of the converts' painful legacies to the Jewish experience in German lands."--From publisher website".
- catalog contributor b12025661.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""The book begins with the medieval images of converts from Judaism and traces the hurdles to social acceptance that they encountered in Germany through early modern times. Carlebach examines the converts' complicated search for community, a quest that was to characterize much of Jewish modernity, and she concludes with a consideration of the converts' painful legacies to the Jewish experience in German lands."--From publisher website".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-318) and index.".
- catalog description "The Medieval legacy: converts in the cutlure of Ashkenaz -- The lost crown of synagoga: converts from Judaism in Medieval Christendom -- The turning point: the sixteenth century -- The last deception: conversion and the endtime -- Writing the divided self: convert autobiography -- The professions of conversion -- Conversion and rupture of the family -- Conversion, language, and identity -- Revealing the secrets of Judaism: the literature of the Jewish ceremonial -- Representation and rivalry: Jewish converts and Christian Hebraists -- Conclusion: converts in the age of enlightenment -- Appendix: the conversion autobiography of Friedrich Albrecht Christiani.".
- catalog extent "xii, 324 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300084102".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe, German-speaking".
- catalog subject "248.2/46 21".
- catalog subject "BV2620 .C37 2001".
- catalog subject "Christian converts from Judaism Europe, German-speaking History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Medieval legacy: converts in the cutlure of Ashkenaz -- The lost crown of synagoga: converts from Judaism in Medieval Christendom -- The turning point: the sixteenth century -- The last deception: conversion and the endtime -- Writing the divided self: convert autobiography -- The professions of conversion -- Conversion and rupture of the family -- Conversion, language, and identity -- Revealing the secrets of Judaism: the literature of the Jewish ceremonial -- Representation and rivalry: Jewish converts and Christian Hebraists -- Conclusion: converts in the age of enlightenment -- Appendix: the conversion autobiography of Friedrich Albrecht Christiani.".
- catalog title "Divided souls : converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750 / Elisheva Carlebach.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".