History of the Byzantine Jews: A Microcosmos in the Thousand Year Empire

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University Press of America, 2007 - 268 σελίδες
The History of the Byzantine Jews explores the Jewish microcosmos in Byzantium. Under the Romans, Jews enjoyed the privileges of knighthood and nobility. Although these luxuries were significantly diminished under Theodosius II- whose wife, Eudoxia, was a judaizing Empress- and the Codex Justinianus, they remained a powerful entity in Byzantium. In comparison to the irredentist Samaritans and Paulicians, the Jews remained areligio licita (permitted religion) that tolerated and even protected by Imperial and Church authority. Their position in society even enabled the Jews to vie for increased power. The Byzantine Jews tried to play the game of power politics through their affiliation with Yemen's Jewish Himyarites, and ill-fated alliance with the Persian Sassanides, and finally through the colossal power of the Jewish Khazar Empire. In this living history of the Byzantine Jews, Author Elli Kohen attempts to revive the spirit of Moses of Crete, Procopius, Eusebius, Theophanes Continuatus, and medieval chroniclers such as Liutbrand, Villehardouin, and Benjamin of Tudela. Intended as a complementary text to other classics on Byzantine Jews, this new work emphasizes multicultural cooperation in the study of this time period. Some of the events and individuals profiled in The History of the Byzantine Jews include: -Byzantine and Jewish polemists- the "Hagiographic Bibliotheca" -Historiography of a Jewish family in Byzantine Apulia -The Jerusalem Karaites finding a safe haven in Byzantium -The rerouting of the fourth Crusade through the Juiverie of Constantinople -The return of the Paleologues -Byzantine-Jewish coexistence under Symeon, Archbishop of Salonica
 

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FROM HELLENIZATION TO GRAECIZATIONFROM THE HISTORICAL ENCOUNTER OF JEWS AND HELLENES TO THE ENCOUNTER of J...
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THE EXPULSION FROM THE COPPER MARKET
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THE GREAT SAMARITAN REVOLT
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ECHOES FROM SOLOMONIC GRANDEUR AND THE QUEEN OF SHEBA TURMOIL OVER THE RED SEA
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THE JUDEOPERSIAN ALLIANCE AND ANTICLIMAX
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DAHIYYAALKAHINA THE JUDEOBERBER WARRIOR QUEEN NORTH AFRICAN EPIC OR MYTHICAL SYMBOL
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AN OVERVIEW BYZANTINE LAW AND THE JEWS
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8A ANOTHER OVERVIEW THE BYZANTINE CHURCH AND THE JEWS
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THE POWER POLITICS OF HASDAI IBN SHAPRUT CHIEF MINISTER ST THE COURT OF ABD AL RAHMAN III THE CALIPH OF CORDOBA
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VLADIMIR THE CONVERSION OF A BARBARIAN
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PASSAGE FROM ISHMAEL TO EDOM
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TURBULENT YEARS
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BYZANTINE JEWISH HISTORY IN THE MAKHTEBANUTH ZAHBNE THE CHRONOLOGY OF GREGORY ABUL FARAJ THE SON OF AARO...
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ANNA COMMENA KEEPS SILENCE ON THE JEWS
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THE MISHAWITES THE LOST SECTARIANS
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THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH QUARTER IN CONSTANTINOPLE The Judeca on the Golden Horn
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THE MESSIANIC DREAM AND A FALSE MESSIAH
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THE NEW PHOENICIANS TOWARDS A JEWISH MARITIME EMPIRE AND THE NEW PAX ROMANA THESSALONICA AND ITS HINTERL...
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BULGARIAN INTERLUDE THE MISSED OPPORTUNITY OF A JUDEOBULGARIAN EMPIRE NEXT TO THE KHAZARS
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JEW UNDER SUSPICION OF COLLUSION WITH THE ICONOCLASTS BUT THE IMPERIAL MANTLE RESTS ON THE SHOULDERS OF A P...
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BYZANTINE JUDAIZERS THE ATHINGANOI
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ANOTHER JUDAIZING HERESY THE PAULICIAN REBELLION THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THEGNOSTIC GOSPEL AND BYZANTI...
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PURPLE TERROR AND BLOOD IN THE UNLEAVENED BREAD
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SAINT CYRILLUS AT THE KHAZAR COURT
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AN EXAMPLE OF ECUMENISM THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN SAINT NILOS AND THE JEWISH PHYSICIAN SABBETAI DONOLLO
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THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF A BYZANTINE JEWISH FAMILY IN APULIA AND THE SAGES OF ORIA THE CHRONICLE OF AHIMMAZ
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POSTSCRIPTS TO THE CODEX JUSTINIANUS LEO IIIs ECLOGA LEOS NOVELS THE MACEDONIAN TERROR AND THE VISION OF DANI...
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CONSTANTINE PORPHYROGENETUS THE EMPERORSCHOLAR SPEAKS ABOUT THE JEWS AND THE KHAZARS
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KHAZAR POWER POLITICS ON BEHALF OF BYZANTINE JEWS
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JUDEOBYZANTINE INTERMEZZO THE ERA OF COOPERATION SALONICA SALONICA Jewish settlement in Thessaloniki
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REROUTING OF A CRUSADE AND A VISIT OF CRUSADER BARONS TO THE JUERIE THE JEWISH QUARTER
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JOHN III VATATZES THE NICEAN HEROD
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JEWISH SELFGOVERNMENT
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JEWS BETWEEN THE EMPEROR AND THE CLERGY
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GIORNALE DELL ASSEDIO DI CONSTANTINOPOLI 1543 FROM NICOLA BARBARO A SURVIVOR OF THE VENETIAN COLONY A DIAR...
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JEWISH LUMINARIES IN BYZANTIUM
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JEWISH DOCTOR IN THE EMPIRE OF TREBIZOND
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LATER DAY JUDAIZERS
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TOWARDS A DIALOGUE AND BEYOND
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REFERENCES
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INDEX
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Elli Kohen, MD, born in Istanbul, Turkey, is an anatomopathologist, researcher in cell biology, cell biochemistry, and cellular pharmacology, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Miami. He has written eight books in science, a Ladino/English Encyclopedic Dictionary, and the biography of Rabbi Nissim Ovadia, A Pillar of Sephardi Judaism. He appears in the marquis Who's Who in America 2005 and 2006, Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2005, Who's Who in the World of Education 2005, and the forthcoming Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare 2007. Dr. Kohen has spent many years in Turkey and the surrounding area. He incorporates his experiences in these regions into his writing in an effort to preserve and impart the history of the Jews in the Byzantine and Ottoman periods.

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