Clinging to a Jewish Saint in a Time of Growing Turmoil: Appropriating the Figure of Rabbi Judah the Pious in Late Fifteenth-Century Jewish Folktales from Regensburg.

Among a unique collection of stories in Hebrew manuscript copied in the sixteenth century and found at the National Library of Israel (NLI) are twenty-seven hagiographic tales about the prominent Jewish pietist of Medieval Germany, Rabbi Judah the Pious (d. 1217) and his father Rabbi Shmuel ben Kalo...

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Published in:	Medieval Encounters Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 336 - 368
Main Author:	Shoham-Steiner, Ephraim
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2022
Subjects:	Rabbis Fifteenth century Ashkenazim Communities Sixteenth century Jews National libraries Fathers Regensburg (Germany)
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