JONATHAN I. ISRAEL
- Published in print:
- 1985
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198219286
- eISBN:
- 9780191678332
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198219286.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History, History of Religion
Because Jews typically congregated within their own territories, and apart from the fact that they opted to live within walking distance of their respective synagogues, a more developed Jewish ...
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Because Jews typically congregated within their own territories, and apart from the fact that they opted to live within walking distance of their respective synagogues, a more developed Jewish self-government was established and these conditions were furthered by the expansion of the Jewish community in the Ottoman lands and Poland, and by the subjection to Italy's ghetto system. Within this general transformation, one of the key features involved how such was not without a huge degree of both cohesion and conformity, which entailed how the institutions of Jewish organized life were common across different areas. While we realize that there are similarities in the chronological evolution of Jewish self-rule, the chapter points out that the European Jewry was different from the cultural framework of the later century, since there existed a generalized system of interrelated institutions.Less
Because Jews typically congregated within their own territories, and apart from the fact that they opted to live within walking distance of their respective synagogues, a more developed Jewish self-government was established and these conditions were furthered by the expansion of the Jewish community in the Ottoman lands and Poland, and by the subjection to Italy's ghetto system. Within this general transformation, one of the key features involved how such was not without a huge degree of both cohesion and conformity, which entailed how the institutions of Jewish organized life were common across different areas. While we realize that there are similarities in the chronological evolution of Jewish self-rule, the chapter points out that the European Jewry was different from the cultural framework of the later century, since there existed a generalized system of interrelated institutions.
Jonathan Israel
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781874774426
- eISBN:
- 9781800340282
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781874774426.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter describes how, politically, as in other ways, the period 1650–1713 marked the culmination of a distinctive Jewish culture within Europe. While Jews, at least in many parts of Europe, had ...
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This chapter describes how, politically, as in other ways, the period 1650–1713 marked the culmination of a distinctive Jewish culture within Europe. While Jews, at least in many parts of Europe, had always tended to congregate in their own quarters, the changes of the sixteenth century — the vast expansion of Jewish life in Poland–Lithuania and in the Ottoman lands and the compulsory subjection to the ghetto system in Italy — combined to propagate a much more developed and intricate pattern of Jewish self-government than had existed previously. In the political as in the cultural sphere, perhaps the most striking feature of the general transformation was the large measure of conformity and cohesion applying across the continent. This is not to say that there were no significant divergences as between diverse parts of Europe, but by and large the essential similarities in the institutions of Jewish organized life held true everywhere. Moreover, there was a particularly notable uniformity regarding the chronology of the evolution of Jewish self-rule: practically everywhere the system reached its fullest development after 1650 and then gradually waned as from the early years of the eighteenth century.Less
This chapter describes how, politically, as in other ways, the period 1650–1713 marked the culmination of a distinctive Jewish culture within Europe. While Jews, at least in many parts of Europe, had always tended to congregate in their own quarters, the changes of the sixteenth century — the vast expansion of Jewish life in Poland–Lithuania and in the Ottoman lands and the compulsory subjection to the ghetto system in Italy — combined to propagate a much more developed and intricate pattern of Jewish self-government than had existed previously. In the political as in the cultural sphere, perhaps the most striking feature of the general transformation was the large measure of conformity and cohesion applying across the continent. This is not to say that there were no significant divergences as between diverse parts of Europe, but by and large the essential similarities in the institutions of Jewish organized life held true everywhere. Moreover, there was a particularly notable uniformity regarding the chronology of the evolution of Jewish self-rule: practically everywhere the system reached its fullest development after 1650 and then gradually waned as from the early years of the eighteenth century.
