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Author Gelles, Edward, Dr., author.

Title The Jewish journey : a passage through European history / Edward Gelles
Published London : I.B. Tauris, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 359 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps, portraits
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of genealogical charts and tables; List of photographs; Preface; Acknowledgements; Map of europe; Introduction -- A mirror of the past; My family background; My paternal rabbinic line; Moses Gelles aka Levush; Mordecai Jaffe of Prague; Gelles and Polonsky; Isaac ben Abraham Chayes and Judah Loew of Prague; Horowitz; History of the Chayes family; Griffel of Nadworna; Wahl of Tarnobrzeg; Saul Wahl; Descendants of Saul Wahl; Other rabbinical connections; Davidic descent
Rashi to Treves, Shapiro, Luria and KatzenellenbogenKalonymos of Narbonne; Genetics, genealogy and anthropology; Notes; Part 1 Genealogical threads; Chapter 1 Carolingian connections in the eighth century; The Carolingian background; Jews in Narbonne; The Kalonymos princes of Narbonne; William of Gellone; Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac of Troyes; Conclusion; Note; References; Chapter 2 In the Spanish March and Provence from the tenth century; Notes; Chapter 3 From Portugal to the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century; References; Chapter 4 From Provence to Venice and beyond; References
Part 2 Sixteenth to seventeenth centuriesChapter 5 Bohemia, England and America; References; Chapter 6 Golden age for the Jews of Prague; References; Chapter 7 From Padua and Venice to Poland and Lithuania; The state of Poland; Pan-European conditions; The family background; From Italy to Poland; Historical records and oral tradition; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 8 A Polish affair; Family backgrounds; Wahl family legends; Critique of the account in Yesh Manhilin; Notes; Part 3 Eighteenth century and later; Chapter 9 Capitalists and rabbis; Introduction; Family connections
The Wahl marriagesReferences; Chapter 10 Jewish community life in Brody; REFERENCES; Marriage contracts; Synagogue seats etc.; Property transactions; Note on currencies; Chapter 11 From the Baltic to the Black Sea; Bibliography; Chapter 12 Rabbi Shmuel Helman of Metz; Introduction; The immediate family; Rabbi Moshe of Glogau; Rabbi Uri Feivush; Rabbi Helman's daughters; Ancestry of Shmuel Helman; Shmuel Helman's achievements; Rabbinical connections; Later progeny; References; Chapter 13 Frankists; Jacob Frank and the Frankists; My family interest; Shor-Wolowski
A Frankist connection to BritainJoseph Wolff; The Stuart line; Bonnie Prince Charlie; Cardinal York; Henry Drummond and his ancestry; Notes to Chapter 13; Chapter 14 Chasidism in the Age of Enlightenment; Introduction; History of ideas; Socio-economic background; Chasidic teaching; Chasidic connections of the Gelles family; References; Part 4 Various roads to modern times; Chapter 15 Mendelssohn, Marx, Buber; Introduction; Descendants of Saul Wahl; The Mendelssohns; Notes; References; Chapter 16 Chayes: Prague, Brody, Livorno and Vienna; Introduction
Summary The history of European Jewry is a vast and complex subject. In this book, Edward Gelles traces Jewish history in Europe and the Near East including population movement, settlement, integration, advancement in aspects of European culture and learning, relations with European states and dynasties, Christians and Ottomans, persecution, the world wars, anti-Semitism, indeed the story of European Jewry from early times to the present. Edward Gelles and his family, both immediate and in their wider circle have huge and distinguished family connections that provide historical context. In combining biography, traditional genealogy and a contribution from the rapidly developing field of genetic genealogy this book weaves emerging patterns into the grand tapestry of European history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Gelles, Edward, Dr. -- Family
Gelles, Edward, Dr. -- Bibliography
Gelles family.
Griffel family.
Walls family.
Lowe family.
SUBJECT Walls family fast
Lowe family fast
Griffel family fast
Gelles family fast
Subject Jews -- Europe -- Genealogy
Genetic genealogy -- Jews -- Europe
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Families
Jews
SUBJECT Europe -- Genealogy
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Genealogy
Bibliographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857726544
0857726544
0755692594
9780755692590