Research Catalog

Title

The Jews in Italy : their contribution to the development and diffusion of Jewish heritage / edited by Yaron Harel and Mauro Perani.

Publication

• Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harel, Yaron
• Perani, Mauro

Description

x, 432 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Jewish Latin American studies

Subjects

• Jews
• Jews > Italy > History > Congresses
• Italy
• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "In September 2011, a major congress was convened at the Bologna University Department of Cultural Heritage ... All twenty-two articles in the current volume are based on lectures given at the conference"--Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• In English and Hebrew.

Contents

• The Roman period -- The Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- The modern period -- The contemporary period.
• Roman attitudes to Jews and Judaism in the first century BCE : between Hellenistic traditions and local realities / Miriam Ben Zeev -- The oldest complete extant Sefer Torah rediscovered at the Bologna University Library : codicological, textual, and paleographic features of an ancient eastern tradition / Mauro Perani -- Palestinian and Babylonian traditions in Italy at the outset of the Middle Ages : the Yerushalmi in the writings of R. Isaiah di Trani (the Rid) / Yaron Silverstein -- Abraham de Balmes's Miqneh Abram : an adaptation of modistic concepts by a Hebrew grammarian of the Renaissance / Dror Ben-Arié -- The anonymous Hebrew translation of Giordano Ruffo's De medicina equorum and its language / Michael Ryzhik -- Between the Book of Jossipon and the Book of Jasher / Carmela Saranga -- Italian Jewry and Kabbalistic rites / Moshe Hallamish -- Ladino translations from Italy : the Bible, Pirke Avot, the Passover Haggadah, and the Siddur / Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald -- The Jews of France and Italy during the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Shimon Schwarzfuchs -- Torah and nature in the writings of some Italian Jewish thinkers of the Renaissance / Miguel Antonio Beltrán Munar -- Prenuptial agreements in Ketubot from Italy / Yoel Shilo -- Jewish Ashkenazi gastronomy in northern Italy in the early modern period : the testimony of the book Mitzvot Hanashim / Zahava Weishouse -- The depiction of Jesus's Circumcision and Presentation in the Temple in early modern paintings in Venice : some questions on Jesus's identity / Maria Portmann -- Freemasonry and Saint-Simonism as carriers of Enlightenment values in David Levi's Weltanschauung / Alessandro Grazi -- The unique characteristics of Dybbuk exorcisms in Rabbinic documents from eighteenth-century Italy / Yaniv Goldberg -- Rabbinic ties between Italy and Aleppo in the eighteenth century / Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky -- Jewish solidarity : the actions and support of the union of Italian Israelite communities for the Jews of Libya and Ethiopia in the 1930s / Yitzhak Mualem -- The dispute between Italy and France in Tunisia : the role of language and the position of Italian Jewry / Filippo Petrucci -- Jews as promoters of Italian civilization in Libya / Rachel Simon -- The relations of the Holy See with the Jewish people after the 1993 fundamental agreement between the Holy See and the state of Israel : divergence between the interreligious dialogue with the Jews of Rome and the diplomatic dialogue with Israel / Eliav Taub -- Primo Levi : chemist/writer, Italian/Jew / Smadar Shiffman -- Jewish educational proposals in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Florence / Silvia Guetta.

Call Number

JFE 20-4587

ISBN

• 9781644690253
• 164469025X
• 9781644690260 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019004279

OCLC

1085578154

Title

The Jews in Italy : their contribution to the development and diffusion of Jewish heritage / edited by Yaron Harel and Mauro Perani.

Publisher

Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Jewish Latin American studies

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

In English and Hebrew.

Local Note

PAPERS BASED ON A 2011 CONFERENCE.

Added Author

Harel, Yaron, editor.

Perani, Mauro, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Jews in Italy Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2019 9781644690260 (DLC) 2019006077

Online Online version: Jews in Italy Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2019 9789004378322 (DLC) 2019003988

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4587