Avigdor Kara's Appeal Reconsidered: A Transcription and English Translation of a Begging Letter Written By a Late Medieval Scholar from Prague

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Avigdor Kara's Appeal Reconsidered: A Transcription and English Translation of a Begging Letter Written By a Late Medieval Scholar from Prague

Original language description

This paper presents a commented edition and English translation of a unique document preserved in the manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS heb. 242 - a letter written by Prague scholar Avigdor Kara (d. 1432). The brief letter (one manuscript folio) represents a poetic request for financial assistance addressed to members of an unspecified community and describes Kara&apos;s living conditions as a teacher of schoolchildren in the wake of an attack on the Jewish community in his place of residence. The article analyses Kara&apos;s literary description of his occupation in the context of his intellectual interests, as attested in other texts. Furthermore, it suggests that the letter was written in the aftermath of the 1389 Easter attack against the Jews in Prague. The presented edition of this document aims to correct the shortcomings of previous published versions and it supplements them by providing an English translation of the letter.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Judaica Bohemiae

ISSN

0022-5738

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

54

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

31-48

UT code for WoS article

000501543100002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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