The many faces of early modern Italian Jewry : religious, cultural, and social identities /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Borýsek, Martin, 1983- (Editor), Liberatoscioli, Davide (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2024]
Series:Europäisch-jüdische Studien. Beiträge ; 65.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 The inner diversity of Italian Jewry
  • Italian Jews encountering Ashkenazi Jews in northern Italy during the late Middle Ages (late fourteenth and fifteenth century)
  • On the meaning of "Italian" in early modern Hebrew sources
  • Tradition or individual talents? The poems of Joseph Zark and Hebrew literary culture in Renaissance Italy
  • Silkworms and bookworms: the partners of Bologna and their boundary-crossing Jewish library
  • Part 2 Non-Jewish perceptions of Jewish pluralism. Responses to Jewish diversity of origins among Italian princes (1450-1550)
  • Italian Jewry in the "Theater of languages". Sephardic and Italian Jews in a Roman giudiata
  • The Jews and the circulation of blood as economic metaphor in medieval/early modern civic discourse (Italy, fifteenth-seventeenth centuries)
  • The 1625 trial against the "heretical" epitaphs in Jewish Cemetery of Ancona
  • What happened to the Jews of southern Italy?
  • Part 3 Negotiating identities
  • Others within others. On scole and diversity in the ghetto of Rome (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries) Why do Jews resort to Christians? Two cases of intra-Jewish "ethnic" conflict in eighteenth-century Italy
  • Building the ghetto: the many facets of Venetian Jewry in the sixteenth century
  • Social differentiation and stereotypes on Jewishness in Habsburg Trieste (1760-1848)
  • Conversion, patria potestas, and capital devolution in eighteenth-century Livorno and Mantua
  • Editors
  • Contributors
  • Personal Name Index
  • Places Name Index