Research Catalog

Title

The Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference / edited by Shlomo Simonsohn, Joseph Shatzmiller.

Author

Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference (2010 : Tel Aviv University)

Publication

Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Simonsohn, Shlomo, 1923-2019.
• Shatzmiller, Joseph.
• Universiṭat Tel-Aviv.

Description

xiii, 266 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 48

Uniform Title

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; vol. 48.

Subjects

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

Note

• Proceedings of the Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference held at Tel Aviv University January 3-5, 2010.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Opening remarks / Shlomo Simonsohn, Simonetta Dela Setta -- The escape from Vasto, complaints of a 15th-century rabbi / Dvora Bregman -- Fortune and providence : a paradigm in Isaac Abravanel's encounter with Renaissance culture / Cedric Cohen Skalli -- Jews and the grain, oil and wine trades in 15th- and 16th-century Apulia / Cesare Colafemmina -- Jewish book collection and patronage in Renaissance Italy / Andreina Contessa -- Joseph Ha-Cohen and his negative attitude toward R. Meir Katzenellenbogen (Maharam Padova) / Abraham David -- Re-creating creation in the early Italian Yoẓer : between tradition and innovation / Yehoshua Granat -- The type of community minute books : some preliminary conclusions / Yaakov Andrea Lattes -- Again on the mobility of Italian Jews between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Michele Luzzati -- Towards Jewish Emancipation in the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany : the case of Pitigliano through the emblematic figure of David Consiglio / Davide Mano.
• The material context of 15th-century Hebrew Florentine manuscripts : a source of information on production, ownership and control of Hebrew books in their Christian environment / Nurit Pasternak -- Italy, the "breadbasket" of Hebrew manuscripts / Benjamin Richler -- Rhymes to sing and rhymes to hang up : some remarks on a lampoon in Yiddish by Elye Bokher (Venice 1514) / Claudia Rosenzweig -- A matter of quotation : Dante and the literary identity of Jews in Italy / Asher Salah -- From Sicily to Rome : the cultural route of Michele Zumat, physician and rabbi in the 16th century / Angela Scandaliato -- The Angevins of Naples and the Jews / Joseph Shatzmiller -- International trade and Italian Jews at the turn of the Middle Ages / Shlomo Simonsohn -- The conservation of history : the archives of the Jewish communities in the Veneto / Ariel Viterbo -- The Jewish presence in Sicily as reflected in Medieval Sicilian historiography / Nadia Zeldes.

Call Number

*PXN 13-213

ISBN

• 9789004243316 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9004243313 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9789004243323 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
• 9004243321 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012036705

OCLC

809845183

Conference

Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference (2010 : Tel Aviv University)

Title

The Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference / edited by Shlomo Simonsohn, Joseph Shatzmiller.

Imprint

Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2013.

Series

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 48

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; vol. 48.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Simonsohn, Shlomo, 1923-2019.

Shatzmiller, Joseph.

Universiṭat Tel-Aviv.

Research Call Number

*PXN 13-213