Resources for 2011
Autobiographical Accounts for a Non-Jewish Friend: Joseph Attias' Letters to L.A. Muratori
**ABSTRACT:** The Livornese Jewish scholar Joseph Attias (1672-1739) is known for his contributions to eighteenth-century Tuscan culture as a book collector and mediator. Attias sent two autobiographical letters to a beloved correspondent, renowned Modenese historian Ludovico Antonio Muratori, in 1724 and 1733. This presentation will analyze the documents as self-conscious life narratives and examples of early Enlightenment self-fashioning that shed light on the strategies employed by a Jewish member of the Republic of Letters to present his formative years, his training, and his achievements to one of the most esteemed representatives of eighteenth-century Italian culture. **This presentation is for the following text(s):** * Letter to L.A. Muratori (December 22, 1724) * Letter to L.A. Muratori (November 20, 1733)
Descend to the Abyss: Jacob Frank's Going to Poland
ABSTRACT: This presentation examines several autobiographical fragments of the most important Frankist document, The Words of the Lord. It focuses on the motif of recurrent divine calls to 'go to Poland' and, ultimately, the justification of Frank's conversion to Christianity. **This presentation is for the following text(s)**: * The Collecion of the Words of the Lord spoken in Bruenn
Generational Conflict in Converso Families, 1492-1550
**ABSTRACT:** The egodocuments presented to the seminar are Inquisitorial confessions of second-generation "nuevos convertidos" who in one way or another were caught between their parents' desire to maintain contact with Judaism and their own alleged desire to assimilate as Spanish Catholics. **This presentation is for the following text(s):** * Trial of Francisco Martínez, apothocary, resident of Deza * Trial of Gaspar de San Clemente
'My Happiness Overturned': Mourning, Memory and a Woman's Writing
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Introduction to Megillat Sefer by Rabbi Jacob Emden
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Mining an Unusual Ego Text (or Two)
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Personal Life in the Context of Personal Death
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Revealing, Concealing: Ways of Recounting the Self in Early Modern Times
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The Travel Diaries of Hayim Joseph David Azulai
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