The Jews in Italy : : Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage / / ed. by Yaron Harel, Mauro Perani.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Beltrán Munar, Miguel Antonio,; Ben Zeev, Miriam,; Ben-Arié, Dror,; Bornstein-Makovetsky, Leah,; Goldberg, Yaniv,; Grazi, Alessandro,; Guetta, Silvia,; Hallamish, Moshe,; Mualem, Yitzhak,; Perani, Mauro,; Petrucci, Filippo,; Portma, Maria,; Ryzhik, Michael,; Saranga, Carmela,; Schwarzfuchs, Shimon,; Schwarzwald, Ora (Rodrigue),; Shiloh, Yoel,; Silverstein, Yaron,; Simon, Rachel,; Taub, Eliav,; Weishouse, Zahava,
• HerausgeberIn: Harel, Yaron,; Perani, Mauro,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 p.)

All twenty-two original articles in the current volume are based on lectures given at the conference "The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage", which was convened in September 2011, at the University of Bologna, Department of Cultural Heritage. Geographically, the articles range from Italy to the Ottoman Empire (the Balkans and Aleppo), from France and Germany to the Middle East, including Israel, North and East Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and Ethiopia). Chronologically, articles begin with the Roman period, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance until modern times. In this collection, the reader will find a wide range of subjects reflecting various scholarly perspectives such as history; Christian-Jewish relations; Kabbalah; commentary on the Bible and Talmud; language, grammar, and translation; literature; philosophy; gastronomy; art; culture; folklore; and education.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One. The Roman Period -- Chapter 1. Roman Attitudes to Jews and Judaism in the First Century BCE: Between Hellenistic Traditions and Local Realities -- Part Two. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- Chapter 2. The Oldest Complete Extant Sefer Torah Rediscovered at the Bologna University Library: Codicological, Textual, and Paleographic Features of an Ancient Eastern Tradition -- Chapter 3. 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) -- Chapter 4. Abraham de Balmes's Miqneh Abram: An Adaptation of Modistic Concepts by a Hebrew Grammarian of the Renaissance -- Chapter 5. The Anonymous Hebrew Translation of Giordano Ruffo's De medicina equorum and Its Language -- Chapter 6. Between the Book of Jossipon and the Book of Jasher -- Chapter 7. Italian Jewry and Kabbalistic Rites -- Chapter 8. Ladino Translations from Italy: The Bible, Pirke Avot, the Passover Haggadah, and the Siddur -- Chapter 9. The Jews of France and Italy during the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- Chapter 10. Torah and Nature in the Writings of Some Italian Jewish Thinkers of the Renaissance -- Chapter 11. Prenuptial Agreements in Ketubot from Italy -- Part Three. The Modern Period -- Chapter 12. Jewish Ashkenazi Gastronomy in Northern Italy in the Early Modern Period: The Testimony of the Book Mitzvot Hanashim -- Chapter 13. The Depiction of Jesus's Circumcision and Presentation in the Temple in Early Modern Paintings in Venice: Some Questions on Jesus's Identity -- Chapter 14. Freemasonry and Saint-Simonism as Carriers of Enlightenment Values in David Levi's Weltanschauung -- Chapter 15. The Unique Characteristics of Dybbuk Exorcisms in Rabbinic Documents from Eighteenth-Century Italy -- Chapter 16. Rabbinic Ties between Italy and Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century -- Part Four. The Contemporary Period -- Chapter 17. Jewish Solidarity: The Actions and Support of the Union of Italian Israelite Communities for the Jews of Libya and Ethiopia in the 1930s -- Chapter 18. The Dispute between Italy and France in Tunisia: The Role of Language and the Position of Italian Jewry -- Chapter 19. Jews as Promoters of Italian Civilization in Libya -- Chapter 20. 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 -- Chapter 21. Primo Levi: Chemist/Writer, Italian/Jew -- Chapter 22. Jewish Educational Proposals in Nineteenthand Twentieth-Century Florence -- Index