Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy
Robert Bonfil; Anthony Oldcorn (Translator)
ISBN 10: 0520073509 ISBN 13: 9780520073500
Editore: University of California Press, Berkeley & London, 1993
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Dust jacket is fully intact. Previous owner's name on first inside page. All pages clean, crisp and fresh. Publisher's note: Structures of settlement and the economy - Trades and professions - Structures of culture and society - Education - Jewish culture, Hebraists and the role of the Kabbalah - Community institutions - Circumcision - Marriage - Death - Jews - Venice - Florence - Death rites. Size: 23.6 x 16 x 2.8 cm. xiii, 319 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; ISBN: 0520073509. ISBN/EAN: 9780520073500. Add. Inventory No: 251011REB0135025. Codice articolo 251011REB0135025
Riassunto:
With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation." Questioning the Italians' presumed capacity for tolerance and civility, he points out that Jews were frequently uprooted and persecuted, and where stable communities did grow up, it was because the hostility of the Christian population had somehow been overcome.
After the ghetto was imposed in Venice, Rome, and other Italian cities, Jewish settlement became more concentrated. Bonfil claims that the ghetto experience did more to intensify Jewish self-perception in early modern Europe than the supposed acculturation of the Renaissance. He shows how, paradoxically, ghetto living opened and transformed Jewish culture, hastening secularization and modernization.
Bonfil's detailed picture reveals in the Italian Jews a sensitivity and self-awareness that took into account every aspect of the larger society. His inside view of a culture flourishing under stress enables us to understand how identity is perceived through constant interplay—on whatever terms—with the Other.
After the ghetto was imposed in Venice, Rome, and other Italian cities, Jewish settlement became more concentrated. Bonfil claims that the ghetto experience did more to intensify Jewish self-perception in early modern Europe than the supposed acculturation of the Renaissance. He shows how, paradoxically, ghetto living opened and transformed Jewish culture, hastening secularization and modernization.
Bonfil's detailed picture reveals in the Italian Jews a sensitivity and self-awareness that took into account every aspect of the larger society. His inside view of a culture flourishing under stress enables us to understand how identity is perceived through constant interplay—on whatever terms—with the Other.
Informazioni sull'autore:
Robert Bonfil is Professor of Jewish History at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His extensive publications on the history of Italian Jewry in Hebrew, Italian, French, and English have earned him an international reputation. Anthony Oldcorn is Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University.
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Titolo: Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy
Casa editrice: University of California Press, Berkeley & London
Data di pubblicazione: 1993
Legatura: Hardcover
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