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A Hebrew Chronicle from Prague, C. 1615
University of Alabama Press, 1993 Paper: 978-0-8173-5290-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8689-4 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-0596-3 Library of Congress Classification DS135.C96P73713 1993 Dewey Decimal Classification 943.712004924
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Translated by Leon J. Weinberger with Dena Ordan
"This slender anonymous work, spanning 1389 to 1611, presents the priorities and concerns of a Jewish community straddling the late medieval and early modern periods. Ample footnotes and explanations provide the lay reader with sufficient background to understand the references to historical events and figures, to ideologies and to institutions. A comprehensive introduction presents the realities of Prague and Bohemia, as well as offering a helpful discussion of the chronicle and other contemporary Jewish accounts." "In about 1615 an anonymous Jew from Prague composed a short Hebrew chronicle to recount 'the expulsions, miracles, and other occurrences befalling [the Jews] in Prague and the other lands of our long exile.' Abraham David discovered the manuscript [and] added glosses, historical notes, and an introduction. . . . The chronicle, with its brief annual entries, is not a continuous narrative, but does give a feeling of immediacy, like a newspaper." See other books on: Czech Republic | David, Abraham | Prague | Prague (Czech Republic) | Weinberger, Leon J. See other titles from University of Alabama Press |
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A Hebrew Chronicle from Prague, C. 1615
ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Alabama Press, 1993
Paper: 978-0-8173-5290-5
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8689-4
Cloth: 978-0-8173-0596-3
Paper: 978-0-8173-5290-5
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8689-4
Cloth: 978-0-8173-0596-3
Translated by Leon J. Weinberger with Dena Ordan
"This slender anonymous work, spanning 1389 to 1611, presents the priorities and concerns of a Jewish community straddling the late medieval and early modern periods. Ample footnotes and explanations provide the lay reader with sufficient background to understand the references to historical events and figures, to ideologies and to institutions. A comprehensive introduction presents the realities of Prague and Bohemia, as well as offering a helpful discussion of the chronicle and other contemporary Jewish accounts."
—Conservative Jewish Quarterly
"In about 1615 an anonymous Jew from Prague composed a short Hebrew chronicle to recount 'the expulsions, miracles, and other occurrences befalling [the Jews] in Prague and the other lands of our long exile.' Abraham David discovered the manuscript [and] added glosses, historical notes, and an introduction. . . . The chronicle, with its brief annual entries, is not a continuous narrative, but does give a feeling of immediacy, like a newspaper."
—Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
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