Theater of Acculturation The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century / Kenneth Stow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stow, Kenneth R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Italy--Rome--History--16th century.

Jews.

Ethnic relations.

Italy--Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, 2001.

Summary:

"Generations of tourists visiting Rome have ventured into the small section between the Tiber River and the Capitoline Hill whose narrow, dark streets lead to the charming Fountain of the Tortoises, the brooding mass of the Palazzo Cenci, and some of the best restaurants in the city. This was the site of the Ghetto, within whose walls the Jews of Rome were compelled to live from 1555 until 1870. In Theater of Acculturation, Kenneth Stow, leading authority on Italian Jews, probes Jewish life in Rome in the early years of the Ghetto."--Jacket.

Contents:

The Jews of Rome and the rhythms of Roman Jewish life

The Jew in a traumatized society

What is in a name? or, The matrices of acculturation

Social reconciliation, from within and without.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-238) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295997537

0295997532

OCLC:

925522404