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Le Centre d'Études Juives a le plaisir d'annoncer une série de conférences

David B. Ruderman
Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History, Ella Darivoff Director, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Rethinking "Early Modern" : towards a coherent interpretation of a discrete era in jewish cultural history

In the last several decades, scholars have given increasing attention to the study of Jewish cultural formation in early modern Europe, focusing on such questions as the impact of the Renaissance and the Baroque on Jewish civilization, on Jews and scientific discoveries, on Jewish messianism and mysticism, on the University and the printing press as agents of Jewish cultural change, on new Christian approaches to Jews and Judaism, and more. Many of the contributions have focused on specific regions of Jewish cultural development such as Italy, the Ottoman Empire, Poland-Lithuania, or the Netherlands. There is now a need to bring the new insights of this research together and to reflect more broadly on the entire geographical and chronological scope of early modern Jewish civilization

Only one historian, Jonathan Israel, primarily an historian of general European history, has attempted to define what “early modern” might mean for Jewish history. As a Jewish historian, I hope in these four lectures to make an effort to expand and revise his formulations and to offer my own tentative definition of early modern Jewish culture. Fully cognizant of the pitfalls of any rigid scheme of periodization that attempts to link together disparate communities and cultures within a cultural matrix rather muddled even for general European historians, I still believe such an effort is worthwhile in seeking a deeper understanding of the meaning of this seminal epoch for both Jews and non-Jews alike.


Mobility, Social Mixing, and the Restructuring of Jewish Communal Life
Lundi 4 avril 2005, de 14 h à 16 h, salle 2 dans le séminaire de Sylvie Anne Goldberg.

Knowledge Explosion: Print, Expansion of Cultural Horizons, the Jewish University Student
Mardi 5 avril 2005, de 16 h à 18 h, salle 9, dans le séminaire de Maurice Kriegel.


The Crisis of Traditional Authority: Messianism, Radical Enthusiasm, and Heresy
Mardi 12 avril 2005, de 16 h à 18 h, salle 9, dans le séminaire de Maurice Kriegel.

Mingled Identities: Conversos, Jewish Converts, and Christian Hebraists
Mercredi 13 avril 2005, de 17 h 30 à 19 h, salle 4, Collège de France,
11 place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris, dans le séminaire de Nathan Wachtel.


Sauf indications contraires, les conférences auront lieu 105 bd Raspail, 75006, Paris.
Renseignements : etudes.juives@ehess.fr

Tel : 01 49 54 24 29