{"product_id":"a-historian-in-exile-jeremy-cohen-9780812248586","title":"A Historian in Exile: Solomon Ibn Verga, Shevet Yehudah, and the Jewish-Christian Encounter","description":"\u003cp\u003eSolomon ibn Verga was one of the victims of the decrees expelling the Jews from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s, and his \u003ci\u003eShevet Yehudah\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Scepter of Judah\u003c\/i\u003e, ca. 1520) numbered among the most popular Hebrew books of the sixteenth century. Its title page lured readers and buyers with a promise to relate \"the terrible events and calamities that afflicted the Jews while in the lands of non-Jewish peoples\" blood libels, disputations, conspiracies, evil decrees, expulsions, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book itself preserves collective memories, illuminates a critical and transitional phase in Jewish history, and advances a new vision of European society and government. It reflects a world of renaissance, reformation, and global exploration but also one fraught with crisis for Christian majority and Jewish minority alike. Among the multitudes of Iberian Jewish \u003ci\u003econversos\u003c\/i\u003e who had received Christian baptism by the end of the fifteenth century, ibn Verga experienced the destruction of Spanish-Portuguese Jewry just as the Catholic Church began to lose exclusive control over the structures of Western religious life; and he joined other Europeans in reevaluating boundaries and affiliations that shaped their identities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Historian in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeremy Cohen shows how \u003ci\u003eShevet Yehudah\u003c\/i\u003e bridges the divide between the medieval and early modern periods, reflecting a contemporary consciousness that a new order had begun to replace the old. Ibn Verga's text engages this receding past in conversation, Cohen contends; it uses historical narrative to challenge regnant assumptions, to offer new solutions to age-old problems, to call Jews to task for bringing much of the hostility toward them upon themselves, and to chart a viable direction for a people seeking a place to call home in a radically transformed world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeremy Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812248589\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812248586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2017","brand":"Jeremy Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059808727295,"sku":"9780812248586","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a4894801-896e-467f-907b-04689c59d041.jpg?v=1685060463","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-historian-in-exile-jeremy-cohen-9780812248586","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}