The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi : : Leon Modena's Life of Judah / / Leone Modena; ed. by Mark R. Cohen.
Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community--a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. Modena (1571-1648) produced an autobiography that documents in poignant detail the turbu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Currency Equivalents
- Introductory Essays
- The Significance of Leon Modena's Autobiography for Early Modern Jewish and General European History
- Leon Modena: The Autobiography and the Man
- Fame and Secrecy: Leon Modena's Life as an Early Modern Autobiography
- The Life of Judah
- Translation, with textual notes
- Historical Notes
- Historical Notes
- Excursus 1: The Venetian Ghetto in Historical Perspective
- Excursus 2: Who Wrote the Ambrosiana Manuscript of Hayyei yehudah?
- Index