The Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference / edited by Shlomo Simonsohn, Joseph Shatzmiller.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Simonsohn, Shlomo, 1923-

Shatzmiller, Joseph.

Universiṭat Tel-Aviv.

Conference Name:

Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference (2010 : Tel Aviv University)

Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference (2010 : Tel Aviv University), creator.

Series:

Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ; v. 48.

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Italy--History--Congresses.

Jews.

Italy--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains the proceedings of the Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference, held at Tel Aviv University 3-5 January, 2010, on the occasion of the jubilee celebration of outstanding scholarship on the history of Italian Jewry. Established in 1960 by Professor Shlomo Simonsohn and scholars from Israel and other countries, the Italia Judaica Project has sponsored documentation and research and organized international conferences, including some as part of the Israeli-Italian cultural agreement. The conference records the success of the project, exploring a broad range of topics related to the culture and history of the Jews in Italy in the Middle Ages and early modern times, such as: Jewish community, economy, literature, medicine and science, and the Arts. This volume contains nineteen of the twenty-seven lectures presented at the conference, including such topics as “International Trade and Italian Jews at the Turn of the Middle Ages,” “The Angevins of Naples and the Jews,” and “Dante and the Literary Identity of Jews in Italy.” The conference was organized by the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Centre at Tel Aviv University, in cooperation with the Fred W. Lessing Institute for European History and Civilization, the Cymbalista Jewish Heritage Centre, the Faculty of Jewish Studies and the Golda and Israel Koschitzky Department of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Opening Remarks / Shlomo Simonsohn and Simonetta Dela Setta

The Escape from Vasto, Complaints of a 15th-Century Rabbi / Dvora Bregman

Fortune and Providence: A Paradigm in Isaac Abravanel’s Encounter with Renaissance Culture / Cedric Cohen Skalli

Jews and the Grain, Oil and Wine Trades in 15th- and 16th-Century Apulia / Cesare Colafemmina

Jewish Book Collection and Patronage in Renaissance Italy / Andreina Contessa

Joseph Ha-Cohen and His Negative Attitude Toward R. Meir Katzenellenbogen (Maharam Padova) / Abraham David

Re-creating Creation in the Early Italian Yoẓer: Between Tradition and Innovation / Yehoshua Granat

The Type of Community Minute Books—Some Preliminary Conclusions / Yaakov Andrea Lattes

Again on the Mobility of Italian Jews between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Michele Luzzati

Towards Jewish Emancipation in the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany: The Case of Pitigliano through the Emblematic Figure of David Consiglio / Davide Mano

The Material Context of 15th-Century Hebrew Florentine Manuscripts: A Source of Information on Production, Ownership and Control of Hebrew Books in Their Christian Environment / Nurit Pasternak

Italy, the “Breadbasket” of Hebrew Manuscripts / Benjamin Richler

Rhymes to Sing and Rhymes to Hang Up: Some Remarks on a Lampoon in Yiddish by Elye Bokher (Venice 1514) / Claudia Rosenzweig

A Matter of Quotation: Dante and the Literary Identity of Jews in Italy / Asher Salah

From Sicily to Rome: The Cultural Route of Michele Zumat, Physician and Rabbi in the 16th Century / Angela Scandaliato

The Angevins of Naples and the Jews / Joseph Shatzmiller

International Trade and Italian Jews at the Turn of the Middle Ages / Shlomo Simonsohn

The Conservation of History: The Archives of the Jewish Communities in the Veneto / Ariel Viterbo

The Jewish Presence in Sicily as Reflected in Medieval Sicilian Historiography / Nadia Zeldes

Index of Names

Index of Geographical Terms.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contains:

Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference.

ISBN:

1-283-93974-6

90-04-24332-1

OCLC:

823720197

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004243323 DOI