David Joshua Malkiel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3958209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Joshua Malkiel |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Malkiel |
| SIGNATURE | MALKIEL D J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reconstructing Ashkenaz
"Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional accounts, the Jews of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. David Malkiel offers provocative revisions of commonly held interpretations of Jewish martyrdom in the First Crusade massacres, the level of obedience to rabbinic authority, and relations with apostates and with Christians. In the process, he also reexamines and radically revises the v…
Christian Hebraism in a Contemporary Key
In 1682 three scholars conducted a coordinated effort to obtain the texts of Hebrew tombstone inscriptions from Jewish cemeteries in northern Italy: Bernardino Ramazzini, a professor of medicine at the University of Padua, Antonio Magliabechi of Florence, librarian to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Johann Christoph Wagenseil, a well-known Christian Hebraist from Altdorf, Germany. This article tells the story of their campaign, based on letters ex…
Part Two
Part Two:Vision and Realization David Malkiel (bio) While there is no scarcity of surveys of Jewish history, David Biale was convinced that the time had come for a fresh treatment of the subject. In his introduction to Cultures of the Jews: A New History, Biale offers a thorough explication of the book's raison d'être, to which he alludes in both the title and subtitle. The following essay explores the goals defined by Biale and then analyzes the…
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Part Two
Part Two:Vision and Realization David Malkiel (bio) While there is no scarcity of surveys of Jewish history, David Biale was convinced that the time had come for a fresh treatment of the subject. In his introduction to Cultures of the Jews: A New History, Biale offers a thorough explication of the book's raison d'être, to which he alludes in both the title and subtitle. The following essay explores the goals defined by Biale and then analyzes the…
Christian Hebraism in a Contemporary Key
In 1682 three scholars conducted a coordinated effort to obtain the texts of Hebrew tombstone inscriptions from Jewish cemeteries in northern Italy: Bernardino Ramazzini, a professor of medicine at the University of Padua, Antonio Magliabechi of Florence, librarian to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Johann Christoph Wagenseil, a well-known Christian Hebraist from Altdorf, Germany. This article tells the story of their campaign, based on letters ex…
Reconstructing Ashkenaz
"Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional accounts, the Jews of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. David Malkiel offers provocative revisions of commonly held interpretations of Jewish martyrdom in the First Crusade massacres, the level of obedience to rabbinic authority, and relations with apostates and with Christians. In the process, he also reexamines and radically revises the v…
History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Ashkenazim (1 work) · Asquenazíes (1 work) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (1 work)