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Title

The Jews of Italy : memory and identity / edited by Bernard D. Cooperman and Barbara Garvin.

Publication

Bethesda, Md. : University Press of Maryland, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Cooperman, Bernard Dov, 1946-
• Garvin, Barbara.
• Institute of Jewish Studies (London, England)

Description

462 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Studies and texts in Jewish history and culture ; 7

Subject

• Jews > Italy > History > Congresses
• Jews > Italy > Intellectual life > Congresses
• Italy > Ethnic relations > Congresses

Note

• "Institute of Jewish Studies, University College, London."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

History of the Jews in Italy / Robert Bonfil -- Jews in Italy in the first to sixth centuries C.E. / David Noy -- Hebrew inscriptions of the early medieval period in southern Italy / Cesare Colafemmina -- Aragonese kings of Naples and the Jews / David Abulafia -- Converts and conversos in sixteenth-century Italy / Anna Foa -- New fashioned from the old / Kenneth R. Stow -- Between the myth of Venice and the lachrymose conception of Jewish history / Benjamin Ravid -- Shakespeare's Shylock / Brian Pullan -- Activity of the Scuola Grande Tedesca of Venice on behalf of the Jewish community of Eretz Yisreal (1642-1788) / Daniel Carpi -- Abraham Abulafia and Menahem ben Benjamin in Rome / Moshe Idel -- Last debate on Kabbalah in Italian Judaism / Alessandro Guetta -- New light on the career of Isaac Samuel Reggio / David Malkiel -- Spoken languages of the Jews in Italy / Maria Mayer Modena -- Judeo-Roman translation of the Bible / Luisa Ferretti Cuomo -- Jewish ceremonial art in Italian synagogues / Dora Liscia Bemporad -- Dishes of the Jews of Italy / Claudia Roden -- Judaism and children's literaure / Alberto Cavaglion -- Social perception of the Shoah in Italy / Anna Bravo -- Social aspects of Italian anti-Jewish legislation / Fabio Levi -- Persecution of the Jews in fascist Italy / Michele Sarfatti -- Jewish refugees from fascist Italy to Britain / Lucio Sponza -- Persecution of Jews in Italy, 1943-1945 / Liliana Picciotto Fargion -- Jewish identity today / Riccardo di Segni.

Call Number

*PXN 01-6465

ISBN

1883053366

LCCN

00063332

OCLC

44860858

Title

The Jews of Italy : memory and identity / edited by Bernard D. Cooperman and Barbara Garvin.

Imprint

Bethesda, Md. : University Press of Maryland, c2000.

Series

Studies and texts in Jewish history and culture ; 7

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Cooperman, Bernard Dov, 1946-

Garvin, Barbara.

Institute of Jewish Studies (London, England)

Research Call Number

*PXN 01-6465