{"product_id":"a-historian-in-exile-solomon-ibn-verga-shevet-yehudah-and-the-jewish-christian-encounter-hardback-9780812248586","title":"A Historian in Exile; Solomon Ibn Verga, \"Shevet Yehudah,\" and the Jewish-Christian Encounter (Hardback) 9780812248586","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Historian in Exile\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSolomon Ibn Verga, \"Shevet Yehudah,\" and the Jewish-Christian Encounter\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeremy Cohen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812248586\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 November 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.528 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Historian in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare thing, a book by a great historian about a great historian. Solomon ibn Verga is today an obscure figure, but in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this Spanish exile's work \u003ci\u003eThe Scepter of Judah\u003c\/i\u003e was the historical meditation par excellence upon the Jewish condition in the Diaspora. Jeremy Cohen restores to us the history and its author, both of whom seem to have as much to say to us today as they have to so many generations in the past.\" (David Nirenberg, University of Chicago) \"This fine book is a fascinating and learned study of the \u003ci\u003eShevet Yehudah\u003c\/i\u003e, Solomon ibn Verga's rethinking of the history of the Jews in the wake of the great forced conversions and the massive expulsions from Spain and Portugal in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and of the continuing Christian hostility towards Jews. This is the one book that both Hebraists and non-Hebraists will need to have at hand when reading ibn Verga's work.\" (Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania) \"A fresh reading and compelling interpretation of \u003ci\u003eShevet Yehudah\u003c\/i\u003e that is unprecedented in its profoundness and intellectual depth.\" (Martin Jacobs, Washington University in St. Louis)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolomon ibn Verga was one of the victims of the decrees expelling the Jews from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s, and his \u003ci\u003eShevet Yehudah\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Scepter of Judah\u003c\/i\u003e, ca. 1520) numbered among the most popular Hebrew books of the sixteenth century. Its title page lured readers and buyers with a promise to relate \"the terrible events and calamities that afflicted the Jews while in the lands of non-Jewish peoples\": blood libels, disputations, conspiracies, evil decrees, expulsions, and more.\u003cbr\u003e The book itself preserves collective memories, illuminates a critical and transitional phase in Jewish history, and advances a new vision of European society and government. It reflects a world of renaissance, reformation, and global exploration but also one fraught with crisis for Christian majority and Jewish minority alike. Among the multitudes of Iberian Jewish \u003ci\u003econversos\u003c\/i\u003e who had received Christian baptism by the end of the fifteenth century, ibn Verga experienced the destruction of Spanish-Portuguese Jewry just as the Catholic Church began to lose exclusive control over the structures of Western religious life; and he joined other Europeans in reevaluating boundaries and affiliations that shaped their identities.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eA Historian in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeremy Cohen shows how \u003ci\u003eShevet Yehudah\u003c\/i\u003e bridges the divide between the medieval and early modern periods, reflecting a contemporary consciousness that a new order had begun to replace the old. Ibn Verga's text engages this receding past in conversation, Cohen contends; it uses historical narrative to challenge regnant assumptions, to offer new solutions to age-old problems, to call Jews to task for bringing much of the hostility toward them upon themselves, and to chart a viable direction for a people seeking a place to call home in a radically transformed world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Religious Debate and Disputation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Tortosa\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Talmud and Talmudists\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Anti-Jewish Libels\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Martyrs and Martyrdom\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Conversos and Conversion\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Author and His Work: Purpose and Structure\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520893448472,"sku":"9780812248586","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-historian-in-exile-solomon-ibn-verga-shevet-yehudah-and-the-jewish-christian-encounter-hardback-9780812248586","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}