342 Pages
by
Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
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The articles collected in this volume display Robert Bonfil's pioneering reappraisal of the economic and socio-cultural history of the Jews of Italy during the Renaissance and the early modern period, focusing on their encounter with and incorporation into the Italian society that surrounded them. Rather than thinking in terms of challenge and response, and the passive surrender of the Jews to the... Read more
Contents: Preface; The historian's perception of the Jews in the Italian Renaissance: towards a reappraisal; Some reflections on the place of Azariah de Rossi's Meor Enayim in the cultural milieu of Italian Renaissance Jewry; Halakhah, Kabbalah and society: some insights into Rabbi Menahem Azariah da Fano's inner world; Cultura e mistica a Venezia nel cinquecento; How golden was the age of the Renaissance in Jewish historiography?; Change in the cultural patterns of a Jewish society in crisis: Italian Jewry at the close of the 16th century; Preaching as mediation between elite and popular cultures: the case of Judah del Bene; Changing mentalities of Italian Jews between the periods of the Renaissance and the Baroque; Italy - the sad epilogue to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain; Gli ebrei d'Italia e la riforma: una questione da riconsiderare; Jewish attitudes toward history and historical writing in pre-modern times; A cultural profile (of the Jews in early modern Venice); Il problema dei conversos nel XV secolo e le sue ripercussioni per la ristrutturazione dell'atteggiamento ebraico nei confronti del cristianesimo all'alba dell'epoca moderna; Index.
Biography
Robert Bonfil, Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
'This volume provides a look at a lifetime of scholarship and thought on the Jews of early modern Italy...essays do much to dispel the golden-age depiction of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy.' Sixteenth Century Journal
