@article{1491176,
      recid = {1491176},
      author = {Carlebach, Elisheva, },
      title = {Palaces of Time : Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early  Modern Europe /},
      pages = {1 online resource (304 p.)},
      abstract = {From one of the leading historians of the Jewish past  comes a stunning look into a previously unexamined  dimension of Jewish life and culture: the calendar. In the  late sixteenth century, Pope Gregory XIII instituted a  momentous reform of Western timekeeping, and with it a  period of great instability. Jews, like all minority  cultures in Europe, had to realign their time-keeping to  accord with the new Christian calendar.Elisheva Carlebach  shows that the calendar is a complex and living system,  constantly modified as new preoccupations emerge and old  priorities fade. Calendars serve to structure time and  activities and thus become mirrors of experience. Through  this seemingly mundane and all-but-overlooked document, we  can reimagine the "idian world of early modern Jewry, of  market days and sacred days, of times to avoid Christian  gatherings and times to secure communal treasures. In  calendars, we see one of the central paradoxes of Jewish  existence: the need to encompass the culture of the other  while retaining one's own unique culture. Carlebach reveals  that Jews have always lived in multiple time scales, and  demonstrates how their accounting for time, as much as any  cultural monument, has shaped Jewish life.After exploring  Judaica collections around the world, Carlebach brings to  light these textually rich and beautifully designed  repositories of Jewish life. With color illustrations  throughout, this is an evocative illumination of how early  modern Jewish men and women marked the rhythms and  realities of time and filled it with anxieties and  achievements.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1491176},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674270909},
}