Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface viii
4. Part One. The Roman Period
5. Chapter 1. Roman Attitudes to Jews and Judaism in the First Century BCE: Between Hellenistic Traditions and Local Realities 1
6. Part Two. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
7. Chapter 2. The Oldest Complete Extant Sefer Torah Rediscovered at the Bologna University Library: Codicological, Textual, and Paleographic Features of an Ancient Eastern Tradition 16
8. Chapter 3. Palestinian and Babylonian Traditions in Italy at the Outset of the Middle Ages: The Yerushalmi in the Writings of R. Isaiah di Trani (the Rid) 64
9. Chapter 4. Abraham de Balmes’s Miqneh Abram: An Adaptation of Modistic Concepts by a Hebrew Grammarian of the Renaissance 90
10. Chapter 5. The Anonymous Hebrew Translation of Giordano Ruffo’s De medicina equorum and Its Language 107
11. Chapter 6. Between the Book of Jossipon and the Book of Jasher 127
12. Chapter 7. Italian Jewry and Kabbalistic Rites 161
13. Chapter 8. Ladino Translations from Italy: The Bible, Pirke Avot, the Passover Haggadah, and the Siddur 169
14. Chapter 9. The Jews of France and Italy during the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance 188
15. Chapter 10. Torah and Nature in the Writings of Some Italian Jewish Thinkers of the Renaissance 199
16. Chapter 11. Prenuptial Agreements in Ketubot from Italy 214
17. Part Three. The Modern Period
18. Chapter 12. Jewish Ashkenazi Gastronomy in Northern Italy in the Early Modern Period: The Testimony of the Book Mitzvot Hanashim 228
19. Chapter 13. The Depiction of Jesus’s Circumcision and Presentation in the Temple in Early Modern Paintings in Venice: Some Questions on Jesus’s Identity 248
20. Chapter 14. Freemasonry and Saint-Simonism as Carriers of Enlightenment Values in David Levi’s Weltanschauung 268
21. Chapter 15. The Unique Characteristics of Dybbuk Exorcisms in Rabbinic Documents from Eighteenth-Century Italy 289
22. Chapter 16. Rabbinic Ties between Italy and Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century 312
23. Part Four. The Contemporary Period
24. Chapter 17. Jewish Solidarity: The Actions and Support of the Union of Italian Israelite Communities for the Jews of Libya and Ethiopia in the 1930s 326
25. Chapter 18. The Dispute between Italy and France in Tunisia: The Role of Language and the Position of Italian Jewry 344
26. Chapter 19. Jews as Promoters of Italian Civilization in Libya 359
27. Chapter 20. The Relations of the Holy See with the Jewish People after the 1993 Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel: Divergence between the Interreligious Dialogue with the Jews of Rome and the Diplomatic Dialogue with Israel 371
28. Chapter 21. Primo Levi: Chemist/Writer, Italian/Jew 388
29. Chapter 22. Jewish Educational Proposals in Nineteenthand Twentieth-Century Florence 403
30. Index 417