EARLY MODERN JEWISH HISTORY: Overview

Sources:

Adler, Israel, and Edwin Seroussi. “Musical Notations of Zemîrôt (Sabbath Table Songs) in an Eighteenth Century Manuscript at the Prague National Library.” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 20 (1998): 5-24:
Abstract: Discussion of a notated manuscript of five Hebrew melodies, or zemirot, traditionally sung at Sabbath meals, and their German translations from between 1688 and 1752, coming from the collection of Jesuit Leopoldus Tirsch (1733-88), the Prague censor.

Horowitz, Elliot. “Coffee, Coffeehouses, and the Nocturnal Rituals of Early Modern Jewry.” AJS Review 14, no. 1 (1989): 17-46.

—. “The Early Eighteenth Century Confronts the Beard: Kabbalah and Jewish Self-Fashioning.” Jewish History 8, no. 1-2 (1994): 95-115.

—. “The Eve of the Circumcision: A Chapter in the History of Jewish Nightlife.” Journal of Social History 23, no. 1 (1992): 45-69.

Images from JTS:

An Historical, Critical, Geographical, Chronological, and Etymological Dictionary of the Holy Bible
Augustin Calmet (translated from French into English by Samuel D’oyly)
London, 1732
BS440.C272 1732
P. 454 – depiction of Jewish divorce

Ceremonies et couumes religieuses de tous les peoples du monde
Bernard Picart
Amsterdam, 1723-1743
BL75.C4 1723
Vol. 1, p. 122 – depictions of Sukkot (2):
1.  Procession des Palmes chez les Juifs Portugais
2.  Repas de Juifs pendant la Fête des Tentes

Mahzor (Rothschild Mahzor)
Florence, 1490
MS 8892
Fols. 5r (Zodiac), 6v (Keter Malkhut), 139r (Pirkei Avot)

Mahzor
[Corfu, 1709]
MS 8236
Fol. 350r – Messiah entering Jerusalem

Mahzor (Italian rite; commissioned for woman)
Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol (scribe)
Italy, 1471
MS 8255
Fol. 5v

Minhagim
Venice, 1593
BM700.I818 1593
Fol. 73v – Purim

Minhagim
Yiddish edition (?)
Fol. 50r – hanukah

Minhagim
Amsterdam, 1662
BM700.I818 1662
Fols. 2v (wedding), 65r (havdalah)

Wedding Poem
Mantua (?), 1722
B (NS)PP256