HIST 219 Lecture Notes - Rashi, Ashkenazi Hasidim, Sefer Hasidim
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Lecture 5: 18 september 2013: doctrine of witness by seeing jews in a subservient state and oppressed, visualize the errors of their ways in not believing in jesus. Feels that jews need to have a clear meaning of the text. Writes clearly, lucid, accessible to everyone: over the course of several centuries, the introduction to judaism was reading rashi"s work, has a lot to say on the relationship between j&c. Concern of preserving j during the conversions and forced baptisms. Felt that j should not help c at all even so far as giving to: demonstrates anxiety that j are becoming c. What might these sources reveal: medieval world. Expulsion from c europe: mass migration, new technologies, development of new ideas that transform the world of jews, migration to polish lithuanian commonwealth & ottoman empire. What features persist: pushed out of france, england, and spain; economic opportunities in the east.
