Acculturation and its discontents : the Italian Jewish experience between exclusion and inclusion / edited by David N. Myers [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers, David N., author.

Contributor:

Myers, David N., editor.

University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Series:

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 10.

UCLA Center/Clark series ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Italy--History.

Jews.

Jews--Cultural assimilation--Italy.

Jews--Italy--Social conditions.

Italy--Ethnic relations.

Italy.

Genre:

Festschriften.

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.The contributors offer rich portraits of the many vibrant forms of cultural and artistic expression that Italian Jews contributed to, but this volume also pays close attention to the ways in which Italian Jews - both freely and under pressure - creatively adapted to the social, cultural, and legal norms of the surrounding society. Tracing both the triumphs and tragedies of Jewish communities within Italy over a broad span of time, Acculturation and Its Discontents challenges conventional assumptions about assimilation and state intervention and, in the process, charts the complex process of cultural exchange that left such a distinctive imprint not only on Italian Jewry, but also on Italian society itself.This collection of rigorous and thought-provoking essays makes a major contribution to both the history of Italian culture and the cultural influence and significance of European Jews.

Contents:

How 'other' really was the Jewish other? The evidence from Venice / Benjamin Ravid

Emotion and acculturation: masquerading emotion in the Roman ghetto / Kenneth Stow

Between exclusion and inclusion: Jews as portrayed in Italian music from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries / Don Harraþn

Can fundamentalism be modern? The case of Avraham Portaleone (1542-1612) / Alessandro Guetta

Jewish women, marriage law, and emancipation: the civil divorce of Rachele Morschene in late eighteenth-century Trieste / Lois C. Dubin

The Jews of Italy in the Triennio Giacobino, 1796-1799 / Geoffrey Symcox

Singing modernity: synagogue music in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy / Edwin Seroussi

'Their true tongue': history, memory, language, and the Jews of Italy / Simon Levis Sullam

Growing up Jewish in Ferrara: the fiction of Giorgio Bassani / Guido Fink.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-9292-8

1-4426-8731-2

OCLC:

1013936402