The Many Faces of Early Modern Italian Jewry: Religious, Cultural, and Social Identities

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The Many Faces of Early Modern Italian Jewry

Religious, Cultural, and Social Identities

Edited by: Martin Borýsek and Davide Liberatoscioli

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 65 | Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge

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The Jewish population of early modern Italy was characterised by its inner diversity, which found its expression in the coexistence of various linguistic, cultural and liturgical traditions, as well as social and economic patterns. The contributions in this volume aim to explore crucial questions concerning the self-perception and identity of early modern Italian Jews from new perspectives and angles.

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Martin Borýsek and Davide Liberatoscioli, Potsdam University, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Martin Borýsek and Davide Liberatoscioli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
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) Alessandra Veronese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
On the meaning of “Italian” in early modern Hebrew sources Asher Salah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Tradition or individual talents? The poems of Joseph Zark and Hebrew literary culture in Renaissance Italy Ori Kinberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
Silkworms and bookworms: the partners of Bologna and their boundary-crossing Jewish library Joseph A. Skloot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Part 2 Non-Jewish perceptions of Jewish pluralism
Responses to Jewish diversity of origins among Italian princes (1450–1550) Pierre Savy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
Italian Jewry in the “Theater of languages”. Sephardic and Italian Jews in a Roman giudiata Alice Grazzini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
The Jews and the circulation of blood as economic metaphor in medieval/early modern civic discourse (Italy, fifteenth–seventeenth centuries) Giacomo Todeschini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
The 1625 trial against the “heretical” epitaphs in Jewish Cemetery of Ancona Mauro Perani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
What happened to the Jews of southern Italy? David Abulafia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Part 3 Negotiating identities
Others within others. On scole and diversity in the ghetto of Rome (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries) Serena Di Nepi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
Why do Jews resort to Christians? Two cases of intra-Jewish “ethnic” conflict in eighteenth-century Italy Germano Maifreda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
Building the ghetto: the many facets of Venetian Jewry in the sixteenth century Rachele Scuro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Social differentiation and stereotypes on Jewishness in Habsburg Trieste (1760–1848) Paola Ferruta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
Conversion, patria potestas, and capital devolution in eighteenth-century Livorno and Mantua Francesca Bregoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
Editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
Personal Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Places Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	319

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eBook published on:

July 22, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9783111049151

Hardcover published on:

July 22, 2024

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111048031

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

7

Main content:

321

Illustrations:

15

Coloured Illustrations:

3

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111049151

eBook ISBN: 9783111049151

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111048031

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Early modern Italy; Jewish history; Jewish identity; Italian Jewry.

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Scholars in the field of Jewish studies, early modern history, Italian Jewry.

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The Many Faces of Early Modern Italian Jewry

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