Volume 1: Early Modern Jewries, 2004, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

2004 Workshop Texts

Bull of Sixtus IV
See: Trent 1475
Kenneth Stow
Pope Sixtus IV, 1478
Translated by: Kenneth Stow, Haifa University

Extended Privilege Granted to the Jews of Great Poland
See: Jewish legal status in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Adam Teller
King Kazimierz Jagiellończyk, 1453
Translated by: Adam Teller, University of Haifa

Keshet U-Magen
See: The Jewishness of Conversos
Talya Fishman
Simeon ben Zemah Duran, 14th - 15th centuries
Translated by: Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania

Letter from Jerusalem
See: Letter from Jerusalem
Elliott Horowitz
Obadiah of Bertinoro, 1488
Translated by: Elliott Horowitz, Bar-Ilan University

Minhat Yehuda
See: Popularization of the Kabbalah
Boaz Huss
Yehuda Hayat, 1558
Translated by: Boaz Huss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Mitpahat Sefarim
See: Popularization of the Kabbalah
Boaz Huss
Yakov Emden, 1769
Translated by: Boaz Huss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Mysterium: About the Conversion of the Jews
See: Mysterium
Debra Kaplan
Elias Schadeus, 1592
Translated by: Debra Kaplan, Yeshiva University

Privilege and Statute of Maria Theresia
See: Privilege and Statute of Maria Theresia for the Jews of Trieste
Lois Dubin
Maria Theresia, 1771
Translated by: Lois Dubin, Smith College

Records of the Metz Beit Din
See: Records of the Metz Beit Din
Jay R. Berkovitz
Court Records, (1771-1789)
Translated by: Jay Berkovitz, University of Massachusetts

Respuesta A Un Cavallero Frances
See: The Jewishness of Conversos
Talya Fishman
Orobio de Castro, 17th century
Translated by: Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania

Sefer Ha-Heshek
See: Sefer Ha-Heshek
Moshe Rosman
Hillel Baal Shem, 1739
Translated by: Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University

Sefer Zikhronot-Book of Remembrances
See: Sefer Zikhronot
Bernard Cooperman
Samuel Aboab, 1650
Translated by: Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland

Sefer `Ets Hayyim
See: Sefer `Ets Hayyim
Yosef Hacker
Hayyim Vital, 1572
Translated by: by Menahem Kallus and Brian Ogren

She'elot u-Teshuvot Yakhin u-Vo'az
See: The Jewishness of Conversos
Talya Fishman
Zemah ben Shlomo Duran, 15th century
Translated by: Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania

The Jampol Community and Town Privilege
See: Jewish legal status in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Adam Teller
Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł, 1711, 1753
Translated by: Adam Teller, University of Haifa

The Letters of Bella Perlhefter
See: The Letters of Bella Perlhefter
Elisheva Carlebach
Bella Perlhefter, 1674-75
Translated by: Elisheva Carlebach, Queens College, CUNY, New York

The Order of Women's Commandments
See: Seder Mitzvot Nashim
Edward Fram
Benjamin Slonik, 1577
Translated by: Edward Fram, Ben-Gurion University

The Triumph of Popular Government
See: The Triumph of Popular Government and of Dutch Antiquity
Anne Oravetz Albert
Daniel Levi (a.k.a. Miguel) de Barrios, 1683
Translated by: Anne Albert, University of Pennsylvania

Voice of a Fool
See: The Jewishness of Conversos
Talya Fishman
Anonymous (attributed to Leone Modena), 1623
Translated by: Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania

`Emeq haBakh'a
See: Trent 1475
Kenneth Stow
Yosef Ha-Cohen, 1575
Translated by: Kenneth Stow, Haifa University



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