Tradition or individual talents? The poems of Joseph Zark and Hebrew literary culture in Renaissance Italy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1 The inner diversity of Italian Jewry
6. Italian Jews encountering Ashkenazi Jews in northern Italy during the late Middle Ages (late fourteenth and fifteenth century) 27
7. On the meaning of “Italian” in early modern Hebrew sources 43
8. Tradition or individual talents? The poems of Joseph Zark and Hebrew literary culture in Renaissance Italy 63
9. Silkworms and bookworms: the partners of Bologna and their boundary-crossing Jewish library 85
10. Part 2 Non-Jewish perceptions of Jewish pluralism
11. Responses to Jewish diversity of origins among Italian princes (1450–1550) 109
12. Italian Jewry in the “Theater of languages”. Sephardic and Italian Jews in a Roman giudiata 125
13. The Jews and the circulation of blood as economic metaphor in medieval/early modern civic discourse (Italy, fifteenth–seventeenth centuries) 145
14. The 1625 trial against the “heretical” epitaphs in Jewish Cemetery of Ancona 159
15. What happened to the Jews of southern Italy? 181
16. Part 3 Negotiating identities
17. Others within others. On scole and diversity in the ghetto of Rome (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries) 203
18. Why do Jews resort to Christians? Two cases of intra-Jewish “ethnic” conflict in eighteenth-century Italy 221
19. Building the ghetto: the many facets of Venetian Jewry in the sixteenth century 239
20. Social differentiation and stereotypes on Jewishness in Habsburg Trieste (1760–1848) 261
21. Conversion, patria potestas, and capital devolution in eighteenth-century Livorno and Mantua 289
22. Editors 309
23. Contributors 311
24. Personal Name Index 313
25. Places Name Index 319