{"product_id":"the-jews-in-italy-their-contribution-to-the-development-and-diffusion-of-jewish-heritage-9781644690253","title":"The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Individually and collectively [the articles] provide valuable information and analysis about the current state of research of Italian Jewry in particular and in the context of Jewish studies in general. ... \u003ci\u003eThe Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e highlights how at the communal level Italian Jewish culture embodies Italian, and indeed global, culture.”\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e—Howard Adelman, H-Judaic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE ROMAN PERIOD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoman Attitudes to Jews and Judaism in the First Century BCE Miriam Ben Zeev\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE MIDDLE AGES \u0026amp; THE RENAISSANCE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Oldest Complete Extant Sefer Torah Rediscovered at the Bologna University Library: Codicological, Textual, and Paleographic Features of an Ancient Eastern Tradition Mauro Perani\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePalestinian 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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbraham de Balmes’s Miqneh Abram: An Adaptation of Modistic Concepts by a Hebrew Grammarian of the Renaissance Dror Ben-Arié\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Anonymous Hebrew Translation of Giordano Ruffo’s De medicina equorum and Its Language Michael Ryzhik\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBetween The Book of Jossipon and The Book of Jashar Carmela Saranga\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eItalian Jewry and Kabbalistic Rites Moshe Hallamish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLadino Translations from Italy: The Bible, Pirke Avot, the Passover Haggadah, and the Siddur Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Jews of France and Italy during the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance Shimon Schwarzfuchs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTorah and Nature in the Writings of Some Italian Jewish Thinkers of the Renaissance Miguel Antonio Beltrán Munar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrenuptial Agreements in Ketubot from Italy Yoel Shilo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE MODERN PERIOD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJewish Ashkenazi Gastronomy in Northern Italy in the Early Modern Period: The Testimony of the Book Mitzvot Hanashim Zahava Weishouse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Depiction of Jesus’s Circumcision and Presentation in the Temple in Early Modern Paintings in Venice: Some Questions on Jesus’s Identity Maria Portmann\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFreemasonry and Saint-Simonism as Carriers of Enlightenment Values in David Levi’s Weltanschauung Alessandro Grazi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Unique Characteristics of Dybbuk Exorcisms in Rabbinic Documents from Eighteenth-Century Italy Yaniv Goldberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRabbinic Ties between Italy and Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJewish Solidarity: The Actions and Support of the Union of Italian Israelite Communities for the Jews of Libya and Ethiopia in the 1930s Yitzhak Mualem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dispute between Italy and France in Tunisia: The Role of Language and the Position of Italian Jewry Filippo Petrucci\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJews as Promoters of Italian Civilization in Libya Rachel Simon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrimo Levi: Chemist\/Writer, Italian\/Jew Smadar Shiffman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJewish Educational Proposals in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Florence Silvia Guetta\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020215058775,"sku":"9781644690253","price":112.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781644690253.jpg?v=1750782791","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-jews-in-italy-their-contribution-to-the-development-and-diffusion-of-jewish-heritage-9781644690253","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}