The Apostate's Tale

The Apostate's Tale PDF Author: Margaret Frazer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101207655
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Dame Frevisse must determine whether Sister Cecely, newly returned to the nunnery with her young son, is truly interested in repenting for her sins—or if she’s just in hiding after involvement in schemes that threaten everyone at St. Frideswide.

The Apostate's Tale

The Apostate's Tale PDF Author: Margaret Frazer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101207655
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Dame Frevisse must determine whether Sister Cecely, newly returned to the nunnery with her young son, is truly interested in repenting for her sins—or if she’s just in hiding after involvement in schemes that threaten everyone at St. Frideswide.

The Politics of Religious Apostasy

The Politics of Religious Apostasy PDF Author: David G. Bromley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313370680
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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The current controversy surrounding new religions has brought to the forefront the role of apostates. These individuals leave highly controversial movements and assume roles in other organizations as public opponents against their former movements. This volume examines the motivations of the apostates, how they are recruited and play out their roles, the kinds of narratives they construct to discredit their previous groups, and the impact of apostasy on the outcome of conflicts between movements and society.

Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2

Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2 PDF Author: Dan Ben-Amos
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827608306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 667

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Folktales from Eastern Europe presents 71 tales from Ashkenasic culture in the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the second volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives at The University of Haifa, Israel (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the Ashkenasic culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition

The Hasidic Tale

The Hasidic Tale PDF Author: Gedalyah Nigal
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1909821098
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Story-telling has been an integral part of the hasidic movement from its inception. Stories about the hasidic leaders and their mystical powers attracted followers and maintained their devotion, and still do so today. This important work, based on analysis of all the published anthologies of such stories, presents them by theme and traces their origins. Originally published in Hebrew and expanded for this edition, it makes a fascinating contribution to the history of hasidism, of Hebrew literature, and of Jewish popular culture.

A Convert’s Tale

A Convert’s Tale PDF Author: Tamar Herzig
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674237536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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An intimate portrait, based on newly discovered archival sources, of one of the most famous Jewish artists of the Italian Renaissance who, charged with a scandalous crime, renounced his faith and converted to Catholicism. In 1491 the renowned goldsmith Salomone da Sesso converted to Catholicism. Born in the mid-fifteenth century to a Jewish family in Florence, Salomone later settled in Ferrara, where he was regarded as a virtuoso artist whose exquisite jewelry and lavishly engraved swords were prized by Italy’s ruling elite. But rumors circulated about Salomone’s behavior, scandalizing the Jewish community, who turned him over to the civil authorities. Charged with sodomy, Salomone was sentenced to die but agreed to renounce Judaism to save his life. He was baptized, taking the name Ercole “de’ Fedeli” (“One of the Faithful”). With the help of powerful patrons like Duchess Eleonora of Aragon and Duke Ercole d’Este, his namesake, Ercole lived as a practicing Catholic for three more decades. Drawing on newly discovered archival sources, Tamar Herzig traces the dramatic story of his life, half a century before ecclesiastical authorities made Jewish conversion a priority of the Catholic Church. A Convert’s Tale explores the Jewish world in which Salomone was born and raised; the glittering objects he crafted, and their status as courtly hallmarks; and Ercole’s relations with his wealthy patrons. Herzig also examines homosexuality in Renaissance Italy, the response of Jewish communities and Christian authorities to allegations of sexual crimes, and attitudes toward homosexual acts among Christians and Jews. In Salomone/Ercole’s story we see how precarious life was for converts from Judaism, and how contested was the meaning of conversion for both the apostates’ former coreligionists and those tasked with welcoming them to their new faith.

Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland

Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland PDF Author: John Mackay Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish Borders (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Wilson's Tales of the Borders ...

Wilson's Tales of the Borders ... PDF Author: John Mackay Wilson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Wilson's Historical, traditionary, and imaginative tales of the Borders

Wilson's Historical, traditionary, and imaginative tales of the Borders PDF Author: John Mackay Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland. [With Plates.]

Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland. [With Plates.] PDF Author: John Mackay Wilson
Publisher: London ; Glasgow : W. Mackenzie, [188-?]
ISBN:
Category : Borders Region (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII PDF Author: Various
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613109393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8250

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