Chapters on Jewish Literature
Professor Israel Abrahams
Chapters on Jewish Literature
Professor Israel Abrahams
- These twenty-five short chapters on Jewish Literature open with the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70 of the current era, and end with the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1786. Thus the period covered extends over more than seventeen centuries. Contents: The Vineyard at Jamnia; Flavius Josephus and the Jewish Sibyl; The Talmud; The Midrash and its Poetry; The Letters of the Gaonim; The Karaitic Literature; The New-Hebrew Piyut; Saadiah of Fayum; Dawn of the Spanish Era; The Spanish-Jewish Poets; Rashi and Alfassi; The Spanish-Jewish poets (II); Moses Maimonides; The Diffusion of Science; The Diffusion of Folk-Tales; Moses Nachmanides; The Zohar and Later Mysticism; Italian Jewish Poetry; Ethical Literature; Travelers’ Tales; Historians and Chroniclers; Isaac Abarbanel; The Shulchan Aruch; Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century; and Moses Mendelssohn.
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