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Vladislaus Henry : the formation of Moravian identity
In Vladislaus Henry Martin Wihoda offers a biography of this ruler, who ruled the Margraviate of Moravia from 1198 to 1222, and also reflects on the beginnings of the politically emancipated community of the Moravians during the 13th century.
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Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
Documents how a betrayed Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I, raised her four daughters in exile during the Dutch Golden Age, tracing how their stories shaped a three-decade war and fulfilled the promises of their great-grandmother, Mary Queen of Scots.
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Two lives in uncertain times : facing the challenges of the 20th century as scholars and citizens
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute [http://www.ghi-dc.org/], Washington, D.C.
Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students. As a newly married couple they went to the American South where they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the civil rights movement. In 1961 they began going to West Germany regularly not only to do research but also to further reconciliation between Jews and Germans, while at the same time in their scholarly work contributing to a critical confrontation with the German past. After overcoming first apprehensions, they soon felt Göttingen to be their second home, while maintaining their close involvements in America. After 1966 they frequently visited East Germany and Czechslovakia in an attempt to build bridges in the midst of the Cold War.
The book relates their very different experiences of childhood and adolescence and then their lives together over almost six decades during which they endeavored to combine their roles as parents and scholars with their social and political engagements. In many ways this is not merely a dual biography but a history of changing conditions in America and Central Europe during turbulent times.
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Passionate Copying in Late Medieval Bohemia
This book presents a detailed case study of Crux de Telcz (1434–1504), illustrating the complexity of the manuscript culture of the second half of the 15th century. The scholar reconstructs Crux’s biography using more than 150 colophons and notes, and analyzes his role as an author, translator, complier, glossator and primarily as a scribe. For comparison, Kimberly Rivers’ study on the Würzburg Franciscan scribe Johannes Sintram († 1450) is included in the book. The most conspicuous feature of the examined late medieval manuscript culture is the unprecedented number of scribe’s paratexts (contents, indexes, explanatory notes, references, identification of sources and others), accompanied by a no less unprecedented number of errors, confusions, obscurities and incoherencies.First volume of the Prague Medieval Studies (PRAMS) series.
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The Long Road to Rashi Supercommentary: R. Mordekhai Jaffe's Epilogue to Levush ha-Ora
From Frankfurt to Friedberg and Cracow to Lublin, early modern Ashkenazic scholars increasingly composed works of biblical exegesis in the medium not of direct commentaries on the Torah but commentaries on Judaism's most influential work of biblical interpretation: Rashi's commentary on the Torah. A major contribution to this tradition of supercommentary was Levush ha-Ora by the towering halakhist, Mordekhai Jaffe (c.1535-1612). This article ventures into Jaffe's work by exploring its striking epilogue. In it, Jaffe lays bare his struggle to complete Levush ha-Ora over nearly half a century. Following a brief orientation into the place of Levushha-Ora in Jaffe's biography, the article outlines broader contexts that shaped his supercommentarial endeavor. These include the challenges and opportunities posed by the still young age of print, the ongoing entrenchment of the longstanding Talmud-centered Ashkenazic curriculum that left little time for Bible study, and, pulling in the opposite direction, fresh interest in scripture among segments of the Ashkenazic rabbinic elite. Seen in this light, the epilogue to Levush ha-Ora opens a window into some of the ambitions and tensions that marked Ashkenazic scriptural study in a period of intellectual, religious, and technological ferment.
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Two Lives in Uncertain Times
Published in Association with theGerman Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students. As a newly married couple they went to the American South where they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the civil rights movement. In 1961 they began going to West Germany regularly not only to do research but also to further reconciliation between Jews and Germans, while at the same time in their scholarly work contributing to a critical confrontation with the German past. After overcoming first apprehensions, they soon felt Göttingen to be their second home, while maintaining their close involvements in America. After 1966 they frequently visited East Germany and Czechslovakia in an attempt to build bridges in the midst of the Cold War.
The book relates their very different experiences of childhood and adolescence and then their lives together over almost six decades during which they endeavored to combine their roles as parents and scholars with their social and political engagements. In many ways this is not merely a dual biography but a history of changing conditions in America and Central Europe during turbulent times.
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