Writing Plague : : Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague / / Susan L. Einbinder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Einbinder, Susan L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 1 map, 4 b&w halftones

A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630–31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores the Hebrew texts that lay witness to the event. These Jewish sources on the Great Italian Plague have never been treated together as a group,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figure 1. Map of Northern Italy, c. 1630. Created by Gordon Thompson, 2021.
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Poetry, Prose, and Pestilence: Joseph Concio and Jewish Responses to the 1630–31 Italian Plague
• Chapter 2. Narrating Plague: Abraham Catalano and Abraham Massarani
• Chapter 3. Interpolated Poetry: When Prose Is Not Enough
• Chapter 4. Jewish Plague Liturgy from Medieval and Early Modern Italy
• Chapter 5. Plague from the Pulpit: Rabbi Solomon Marini in Padua
• Chapter 6. Eulogies, Laments, and Epitaphs: The Death of the Narrator
• Appendix 1. Sermon Outlines by Solomon Marini
• Appendix 2. Burial and Poetic Eulogies for Abraham Catalano by Solomon Marini and Moses Catalano
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments