Resources for 2016
Half-Friends and Whole Friends: Telling Emotional Stories in Yiddish
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“For we Jews are merciful”: Emotions and Communal Identity
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Emotions and Business in a Trans-Mediterranean Jewish Household
These five excerpts come from two letter books that belonged to Joseph Franchetti (ca. 1720-ca. 1794), a successful Jewish merchant of Mantuan origins based in Tunis. At the time of the correspondence (1776-1790), Franchetti was a chief partner in the _Salomone_ _Enriches & Joseph Franchetti_ _Company_, a family-based trading firm with interests in Tunis, Livorno, and Smyrna. In the 1770s and 1780s, the core of Franchetti’s business was the sale of Tunisian _chechias_. These hats, made in Tunis with European wool acquired from Livorno, were highly sought after in the Ottoman Empire, with Smyrna serving as key distribution center. The strategic arrangement of the Enriches and Franchetti Company, with its presence on three Mediterranean coasts, placed these entrepreneurs at the forefront of the _chechia_ trade in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.
Emotions in the Margins: Reading Toledot Yeshu after the Affective Turn
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Emotions and Preaching
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A Short History of Horror: Early Modern Jews and their Monsters
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Fear in the Archive: Police Dossiers and the History of Emotions in Old Regime France
The following document is a police dossier drawn from the Y series of the Archives Nationales. Compiled by a neighborhood commissioner named Louis- Pierre Regnard, the dossier contains testimony pertaining to the case of François Fromard, a journeyman quarry worker who hanged himself in his apartment in a working-class neighborhood of Paris on 29 May 1750. According to the testimony of his wife and neighbors, Fromard saw police agents everywhere and, before taking his own life, had become convinced that he was going to be arrested and imprisoned. No one, however, gave any indication that the police were really pursuing him. The dangers he saw lurking all around him were figments of his imagination, or, as one witness eloquently described it, of his “wounded imagination” (_imagination blessée_).
Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav's Teachings on Melancholy and Joy
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The Quality of Mercy Strained - Regret and Repentance in Early Modern Law
The following texts come from a trial of Catherine Mundt, tried in 1693, for infanticide, and interrogated under torture. The records are preserved in the Stadt Archiv Braunschweig.
For the Love of God: Spiritual Purpose and Mastering Emotions in the Pietistic Writings of Moses Hayim Luzzatto
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