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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borýsek, Martin.

Contributor:

Liberatoscioli, Davide.

Series:

Europäisch-Jüdische Studien - Beiträge Series

Europäisch-Jüdische Studien - Beiträge Series ; v.65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Italy.

Jews.

Judaism and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

This scholarly volume, edited by Martin Borýsek and Davide, explores the multifaceted identities of early modern Italian Jewry, examining religious, cultural, and social dimensions. It is a compilation of essays from a conference held at the University of Potsdam, focusing on the internal diversity of Italian Jewish communities and their interactions with Ashkenazi Jews, Christians, and political authorities from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period. The book aims to integrate Jewish history into the broader narrative of Italian Renaissance and early modern society, highlighting tensions and collaborations within and beyond the Jewish community. It targets scholars and students interested in Jewish studies, Italian history, and cultural exchanges in early modern Europe. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Introduction

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)

On the meaning of "Italian" in early modern Hebrew sources

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

Silkworms and bookworms: the partners of Bologna and their boundary-crossing Jewish library

Part 2 Non-Jewish perceptions of Jewish pluralism

Responses to Jewish diversity of origins among Italian princes (1450-1550)

Italian Jewry in the "Theater of languages". Sephardic and Italian Jews in a Roman giudiata

The Jews and the circulation of blood as economic metaphor in medieval/early modern civic discourse (Italy, fifteenth-seventeenth centuries)

The 1625 trial against the "heretical" epitaphs in Jewish Cemetery of Ancona

What happened to the Jews of southern Italy?

Part 3 Negotiating identities

Others within others. On scole and diversity in the ghetto of Rome (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries)

Why do Jews resort to Christians? Two cases of intra-Jewish "ethnic" conflict in eighteenth-century Italy

Building the ghetto: the many facets of Venetian Jewry in the sixteenth century

Social differentiation and stereotypes on Jewishness in Habsburg Trieste (1760-1848)

Conversion, patria potestas, and capital devolution in eighteenth-century Livorno and Mantua

Editors

Contributors

Personal Name Index

Places Name Index.

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ISBN:

9783111049151

3111049159

OCLC:

1442028874