The Jewish Body: Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 17)

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
Part I The Body in Historical and Social Context......Page 24
The Rise of the Body in Early Modern Jewish Society: The Italian Case Study (Roni Weinstein)......Page 26
Jewish Bodies and Renaissance Melancholy: Culture and the City in Italy and the Ottoman Empire (Eleazar Gutwirth)......Page 68
\"Den ikh bin treyfe gevezn\": Body Perceptions in Seventeenth-Century Jewish Autobiographical Texts (Maria Diemling)......Page 104
\"Who Knows What the Cause Is?\": \"Natural\" and \"Unnatural\" Causes for Illness in the Writings of Ba\'alei Shem, Doctors and Patients among German Jews in the Eighteenth Century (Nimrod Zinger)......Page 138
Part II The Halakhic Body......Page 168
\"La\'avodat Bor\'o\": The Body in the Shul.han Arukh of R. Joseph Caro (Jeffrey R. Woolf)......Page 170
Virginity: Women\'s Body as a State of Mind: Destiny Becomes Biology (Howard Tzvi Adelman)......Page 190
Mental and Bodily Malfunctioning in Marriage: Evidence from Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Responsa from the Ottoman Empire and Poland (Ruth Berger)......Page 226
Part III Body, Mind and Soul......Page 260
On the Performing Body in Theosophical-Theurgical Kabbalah: Some Preliminary Remarks (Moshe Idel)......Page 262
Giving Birth to the Hebrew Author: Two Compositions by Johanan Alemanno (Arthur M. Lesley)......Page 284
The Idea of Beauty in Leone Ebreo (Judah Abravanel) (Sergius Kodera)......Page 312
Body of Conversion and the Immortality of the Soul: The \"Beautiful Jewess\" Sara Copio Sullam (Giuseppe Veltri)......Page 342
Part IV The Body in Jewish-Christian Discourse......Page 364
Shaping the Body of the Godhead: The Adaptation of the Androgynous Motif in Early Christian Kabbalah (Saverio Campanini)......Page 366
The Human Body as a Musical Instrument in the Sermons of Judah Moscato (Gianfranco Miletto)......Page 388
Angelic Embodiment and the Feminine Representation of Jesus: Reconstructing Carnality in the Christian Kabbalah of Johann Kemper (Elliot R. Wolfson)......Page 406
\"Adonai con voi\" (1569), a Simple Popular Song with a Complicated Semantic about (what seems to be) Circumcision (Don Harrán)......Page 438
Index of Subjects......Page 476
Index of Persons......Page 494