Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe

by Elisheva Carlebach

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674052544
• ISBN13: 9780674052543
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 10.2"