Matthias B Lehmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1269698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthias B Lehmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthias B |
| FAMILY NAME | Lehmann |
| SIGNATURE | LEHMANN M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Defying the Logic of the Nation-State
June 1911: the Alliance Israélite Universelle, the premier Jewish philanthropic organization, created in 1860, holds elections for its Central Committee. What had been a staid, largely pro forma procedure for decades turned into an international drama as competing lists, presented by the incumbent Central Committee in Paris and the leaders of the German Alliance committee in Berlin, vied for the votes of tens of thousands of members on four conti…
The Baron
A sweeping biography that opens a window onto the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Baron Maurice de Hirsch was one of the emblematic figures of the nineteenth century. Above all, he was the most influential Jewish philanthropist of his time. Today Hirsch is less well known than the Rothschilds, or his gentile counterpart Andrew Carnegie, yet he was, to his contemporaries, the very embodiment of the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Hirsch's li…
Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History, written by Jane Gerber
A new book in Jewish affairs begins”
This article looks at Jewish responses to the death of the banker, railroad entrepreneur, and philanthropist Maurice de Hirsch in 1896, the same year that Theodor Herzl published his Jewish State. Examining printed eulogies and obituaries that appeared in Jewish newspapers, from Eastern Europe to France, and from Germany to the Ottoman Empire, the article demonstrates how contemporaries understood the passing of Baron Hirsch as the end of a golde…
Jeremy Cohen. A Historian in Exile
Many of the great Jewish historians—from Heinrich Graetz and Yitzhak Baer to Amos Funkenstein and Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi—have written about Shevet Yehudah, that classic of Hebrew letters from the sixteenth century. Jeremy Cohen’s A Historian in Exile now offers a new and impressively detailed analysis of a book that Yerushalmi once described as “a precociously sociological analysis of Jewish historical suffering” (Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Zakhor: …
Francesca Bregoli. Mediterranean Enlightenment
Journal Article Francesca Bregoli. Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform. Get access Francesca Bregoli. Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform. (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 339. $65.00. Matthias B. Lehmann Matthias B. Lehmann University of California, Irvine mleh…
Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture
Annotation Annotation
A Livornese "Port Jew" and the Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire
The Europeans think that there are no people more ignorant and unrefined than the Levantines. And there was one of them who told me that the Levantines are enemies of knowledge, and that they have no zeal for virtues, but that they are only after pomp and wealth and business."1 Thus does David Attias admonish the readers of his work La Guerta de Oro (The Garden of Gold), published in 1778, arguably the first secular book to be printed in Ladino, …
A Livornese ?Port Jew? and the Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire
of knowledge, and that they have no zeal for virtues, but that they are only after pomp and wealth and business.' Thus does David Attias admonish the readers of his work La Guerta de Oro (The Garden of Gold), published in 1778, arguably the first secular book be printed in Ladino, orJudeo-Spanish, the vernacular language of the SephardiJews in the eastern Mediterranean.2 Attias was born in Sarajevo, in Ottoman Bosnia, but he spent most of his lif…
A Livornese ?Port Jew? and the Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire
of knowledge, and that they have no zeal for virtues, but that they are only after pomp and wealth and business.' Thus does David Attias admonish the readers of his work La Guerta de Oro (The Garden of Gold), published in 1778, arguably the first secular book be printed in Ladino, orJudeo-Spanish, the vernacular language of the SephardiJews in the eastern Mediterranean.2 Attias was born in Sarajevo, in Ottoman Bosnia, but he spent most of his lif…
Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture
Annotation Annotation
A Livornese "Port Jew" and the Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire
The Europeans think that there are no people more ignorant and unrefined than the Levantines. And there was one of them who told me that the Levantines are enemies of knowledge, and that they have no zeal for virtues, but that they are only after pomp and wealth and business."1 Thus does David Attias admonish the readers of his work La Guerta de Oro (The Garden of Gold), published in 1778, arguably the first secular book to be printed in Ladino, …
A Livornese ?Port Jew? and the Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire
of knowledge, and that they have no zeal for virtues, but that they are only after pomp and wealth and business.' Thus does David Attias admonish the readers of his work La Guerta de Oro (The Garden of Gold), published in 1778, arguably the first secular book be printed in Ladino, orJudeo-Spanish, the vernacular language of the SephardiJews in the eastern Mediterranean.2 Attias was born in Sarajevo, in Ottoman Bosnia, but he spent most of his lif…
Francesca Bregoli. Mediterranean Enlightenment
Journal Article Francesca Bregoli. Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform. Get access Francesca Bregoli. Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform. (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 339. $65.00. Matthias B. Lehmann Matthias B. Lehmann University of California, Irvine mleh…
A new book in Jewish affairs begins”
This article looks at Jewish responses to the death of the banker, railroad entrepreneur, and philanthropist Maurice de Hirsch in 1896, the same year that Theodor Herzl published his Jewish State. Examining printed eulogies and obituaries that appeared in Jewish newspapers, from Eastern Europe to France, and from Germany to the Ottoman Empire, the article demonstrates how contemporaries understood the passing of Baron Hirsch as the end of a golde…
Jeremy Cohen. A Historian in Exile
Many of the great Jewish historians—from Heinrich Graetz and Yitzhak Baer to Amos Funkenstein and Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi—have written about Shevet Yehudah, that classic of Hebrew letters from the sixteenth century. Jeremy Cohen’s A Historian in Exile now offers a new and impressively detailed analysis of a book that Yerushalmi once described as “a precociously sociological analysis of Jewish historical suffering” (Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Zakhor: …
The Baron
A sweeping biography that opens a window onto the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Baron Maurice de Hirsch was one of the emblematic figures of the nineteenth century. Above all, he was the most influential Jewish philanthropist of his time. Today Hirsch is less well known than the Rothschilds, or his gentile counterpart Andrew Carnegie, yet he was, to his contemporaries, the very embodiment of the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Hirsch's li…
Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History, written by Jane Gerber
Defying the Logic of the Nation-State
June 1911: the Alliance Israélite Universelle, the premier Jewish philanthropic organization, created in 1860, holds elections for its Central Committee. What had been a staid, largely pro forma procedure for decades turned into an international drama as competing lists, presented by the incumbent Central Committee in Paris and the leaders of the German Alliance committee in Berlin, vied for the votes of tens of thousands of members on four conti…
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Classics (4 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (4 works) · Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · History (3 works)