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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Marcus, Ivan G. (1942-....)
Titre(s) : Sefer Hasidim and the Ashkenazic book in medieval Europe [Texte imprimé] / Ivan G. Marcus
Publication : Philadelphia (Pa.) : University of Pennsylvania press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-202 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Jewish culture and contexts
Lien à la collection : Jewish culture and contexts
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [161]-189. Index
Composed in Germany in the early thirteenth century by Judah ben Samuel he-hasid,
Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," is a compendium of religious instruction
that portrays the everyday life of Jews as they lived together with and apart from
Christians in towns such as Speyer, Worms, Mainz, and Regensburg. A charismatic religious
teacher who recorded hundreds of original stories that mirrored situations in medieval
social living, Judah's messages advocated praying slowly and avoiding honor, pleasure,
wealth, and the lures of unmarried sex. Although he failed to enact his utopian vision
of a pietist Jewish society, his collected writings would help shape the religious
culture of Ashkenazic Judaism for centuries.0In "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic
Book in Medieval Europe, Ivan G. Marcus proposes a new paradigm for understanding
how this particular book was composed. The work, he contends, was an open text written
by a single author in hundreds of disjunctive, yet self-contained, segments, which
were then combined into multiple alternative versions, each equally authoritative.
While Sefer Hasidim offers the clearest example of this model of composition, Marcus
argues that it was not unique: the production of Ashkenazic books in small and easily
rearranged paragraphs is a literary and cultural phenomenon quite distinct from anything
practiced by the Christian authors of northern Europe or the Sephardic Jews of the
south. According to Marcus, Judah, in authoring Sefer Hasidim in this manner, not
only resisted Greco-Roman influences on Ashkenazic literary form but also extended
an earlier Byzantine rabbinic tradition of authorship into medieval European Jewish
culture
Sujet(s) : Jehudah ben Chemouel le Hassid (1150-1217). Sefer hasidim
Juifs -- Europe -- Moyen âge
Hassidisme médiéval -- Allemagne
Morale juive
Genre ou forme : Ouvrages avant 1800
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780812250091. - ISBN 0812250095 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454650814
Notice n° :
FRBNF45465081
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