Isaac Wetzlar was an eighteenth century wealthy merchant from Celle, Germany who spent many years reflecting on the socio-religious circumstances of German-Jewish society. He wrote Libes Brivin Yiddish as a critique of the situation of this society, and offered suggestions which he felt would improve the spiritual and material situation of his fellow Jews. Faierstein presents the text and translation of this important document, along with an analysis
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The collection contains a short report on the history of the town of Wetzlar in Hesse, followed by a...
Sephardi printers were pioneers of moveable type in the Islamic world, establishing a Hebrew printin...
Translator's note signed: Henrietta Szold. CONTENTS.- In Italy. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto.- In Germany. ...
In 1748/49, Isaac Wetzlar of Celle in Northern Germany completed Libes Briv (Love Letter), a Yiddish...
Viewing Christian Pietism as an influential context for Isaac Wetzlar’s Libes briv raises some quest...
Moses Brandeis Levi (d. 1767) was one of the important rabbis of the early modern community in Mainz...
Raphael Levi Hannover -Exemplar of Jewish «Fruhaufklärung ». Raphael Levi Hannover (1685-1779) was ...
Brest-Litovsk (in Polish, Brześć) is one of the bigger cities in Belarus. In early modern times it w...
The comparison of two biggest jewish communities in the Czech country, Kolín and Libeň, show us in v...
In the 17th and 18th centuries, court Jews (Hofjuden) played an important role in the administration...
Johannes Reuchlin, German humanist, diplomat, and Hebraist, is one of the fathers of German humanism...
Article by Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith : "Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar and the Jews", in: The Journal of Progr...
Schwarzfuchs Simon. Jonathan I. Israel. European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550-1750. In: Re...
This presentation focuses on Jewish attitudes towards non-Jews in the first half of the 18th century...
ABSTRACT : One of the main transformations in the Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe d...
The collection contains a short report on the history of the town of Wetzlar in Hesse, followed by a...
Sephardi printers were pioneers of moveable type in the Islamic world, establishing a Hebrew printin...
Translator's note signed: Henrietta Szold. CONTENTS.- In Italy. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto.- In Germany. ...