Exile, Immigration and Piety
The Jewish Pietists of Medieval Germany, from the Rhineland to the Danube
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24044847 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (0000-0002-2301-2245, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 234-260 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jewish Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0944-5706 • E-ISSN: 1868-6788 |
| Publisher | Mohr Siebeck (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1628/094457017x14998549543534 |
| OpenAlex | W2752333414 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article re-considers the migration of the Kalonymide family of pietists from medieval Speyer to Regensburg, suggesting a revised date for the move and an expanded interpretation of the reasons for it. Drawing on both halakhic and hagiographic sources, it demonstrates a more inclusive methodology for attempting to reconstruct historical events from incomplete and even apparently conflicting sources. It attempts to show that the prominent rabbi who moved to Regensburg in the 12th century was not Rabbi Yehudah the Pious, but his father Rabbi Shmuel, and two accounts of the migration that seem unrelated different may share a historical kernel associated with the pietistic agenda that was interpreted in radically divergent ways.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnology · Immigration · Judaism · Piety · History · Moravian Church and William Blake · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |