No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France (The Middle Ages Series)

Einbinder, Susan L.

ISBN 10: 0812241150 / ISBN 13: 9780812241150

Editore: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008

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• Titolo: No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France (The Middle Ages Series)
• Editore: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0812241150
• ISBN 13: 9780812241150
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

When King Philip VI expelled the Jews in 1306, some 100,000 men, women, and children were driven from royal France into the neighboring lands of Spain, Provence, Italy, and North Africa. The great expulsion of 1306 was arguably one of the most traumatic moments of medieval Jewish history and would prove to be the harbinger of a series of recalls and expulsions, local and general, culminating in King Charles VI's expulsion decree of 1394.

Despite the upheavals of the fourteenth century, the literary productivity of Jews was astonishing. Yet there are few direct references to the catastrophic events of 1306, even in Jewish liturgical and historiographic texts, where one would expect to find them. In No Place of Rest, Susan Einbinder coaxes out the literary traces of this traumatic expulsion. Why did the memory of this proud and vibrant Jewish community fade from historical memory? Where do its remnants reside among later communities and readers? From the lyrics of the supposed "Jewish troubadour" Isaac HaGorni to medical texts and astronomical charts, Einbinder studies a range of writings she reveals to be commemorative. Her careful readings uncover the ways in which medieval Jews asserted their identity in exile and, perhaps more important, helped to preserve or efface their history.

Informazioni sull?autore

Susan L. Einbinder is Professor of Hebrew Literature at Hebrew Union College. She is author of Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France.