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

This volume contains the proceedings of the Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference, held at Tel Aviv University 3-5 January, 2010, on the occasion of the jubilee celebration of outstanding scholarship on the history of Italian Jewry. Established in 1960 by Professor Shlomo Simonsohn and scholars from Isr...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 48.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Opening Remarks / Shlomo Simonsohn and 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
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Geographical Terms.