Jewish Life In Renaissance Italy
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Jewish Life In Renaissance Italy
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Author : Robert Bonfil
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1994-03-04
Jewish Life In Renaissance Italy written by Robert Bonfil and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-03-04 with Religion categories.
With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation." Questioning the Italians' presumed capacity for tolerance and civility, he points out that Jews were frequently uprooted and persecuted, and where stable communities did grow up, it was because the hostility of the Christian population had somehow been overcome. After the ghetto was imposed in Venice, Rome, and other Italian cities, Jewish settlement became more concentrated. Bonfil claims that the ghetto experience did more to intensify Jewish self-perception in early modern Europe than the supposed acculturation of the Renaissance. He shows how, paradoxically, ghetto living opened and transformed Jewish culture, hastening secularization and modernization. Bonfil's detailed picture reveals in the Italian Jews a sensitivity and self-awareness that took into account every aspect of the larger society. His inside view of a culture flourishing under stress enables us to understand how identity is perceived through constant interplay—on whatever terms—with the Other.
The Jew In The Art Of The Italian Renaissance
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Author : Dana E. Katz
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2008-06-04
The Jew In The Art Of The Italian Renaissance written by Dana E. Katz and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-04 with Art categories.
Dana E. Katz reveals how Italian Renaissance painting became part of a policy of tolerance that deflected violence from the real world onto a symbolic world. While the rulers upheld toleration legislation governing Christian-Jewish relations, they simultaneously supported artistic commissions that perpetuated violence against Jews.
Rabbis And Jewish Communities In Renaissance Italy
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Author : Robert Bonfil
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 1989-12-01
Rabbis And Jewish Communities In Renaissance Italy written by Robert Bonfil and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-12-01 with Religion categories.
A vivid picture of Italian Jewry and the rabbinate during the Renaissance that describes the development of the cultural, religious, and intellectual life of the community against the backdrop of developments within the wider Catholic environment.
Marking The Jews In Renaissance Italy
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Author : Flora Cassen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-03
Marking The Jews In Renaissance Italy written by Flora Cassen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-03 with History categories.
This book examines the discriminatory marking of Jews in Renaissance Italy and the impacts this had on the Jewish communities.
A Convert S Tale
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Author : Tamar Herzig
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-03
A Convert S Tale written by Tamar Herzig and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-03 with History categories.
An intimate portrait, based on newly discovered archival sources, of one of the most famous Jewish artists of the Italian Renaissance who, charged with a scandalous crime, renounced his faith and converted to Catholicism. In 1491 the renowned goldsmith Salomone da Sesso converted to Catholicism. Born in the mid-fifteenth century to a Jewish family in Florence, Salomone later settled in Ferrara, where he was regarded as a virtuoso artist whose exquisite jewelry and lavishly engraved swords were prized by Italy’s ruling elite. But rumors circulated about Salomone’s behavior, scandalizing the Jewish community, who turned him over to the civil authorities. Charged with sodomy, Salomone was sentenced to die but agreed to renounce Judaism to save his life. He was baptized, taking the name Ercole “de’ Fedeli” (“One of the Faithful”). With the help of powerful patrons like Duchess Eleonora of Aragon and Duke Ercole d’Este, his namesake, Ercole lived as a practicing Catholic for three more decades. Drawing on newly discovered archival sources, Tamar Herzig traces the dramatic story of his life, half a century before ecclesiastical authorities made Jewish conversion a priority of the Catholic Church. A Convert’s Tale explores the Jewish world in which Salomone was born and raised; the glittering objects he crafted, and their status as courtly hallmarks; and Ercole’s relations with his wealthy patrons. Herzig also examines homosexuality in Renaissance Italy, the response of Jewish communities and Christian authorities to allegations of sexual crimes, and attitudes toward homosexual acts among Christians and Jews. In Salomone/Ercole’s story we see how precarious life was for converts from Judaism, and how contested was the meaning of conversion for both the apostates’ former coreligionists and those tasked with welcoming them to their new faith.
Essential Papers On Jewish Culture In Renaissance And Baroque Italy
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Author : David Ruderman
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1992
Essential Papers On Jewish Culture In Renaissance And Baroque Italy written by David Ruderman and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Religion categories.
This book represents a sample of the most penetrating Jewish movements.
The World Of A Renaissance Jew
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Author : David B. Ruderman
language : en
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Release Date : 1981-12-31
The World Of A Renaissance Jew written by David B. Ruderman and has been published by Hebrew Union College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-12-31 with History categories.
Within the Italian city states of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a relatively high degree of mutual tolerance and tranquility existed between the enlightened Christian majority and the small Jewish minority. With the prevalence of favorable political, social, and economic circumstances for Jewish life in Italy, a considerable number of Jews participated freely in Renaissance culture while upholding an intense awareness of their own particular identity. This work is a study of the life and thought of one such Jew, Abraham b. Mordecai Farissol (1452-ca. 1528). While born in Avignon, Farissol spent most of his life in Italy close to the cultural centers of Renaissance society, primarily in Ferrara, but also in Mantua, Florence, and other Italian cities. As scribe, educator, cantor, communal leader, polemicist, Biblical exegete, and geographer, Farissol developed variegated interests and associations which provide exciting vantage points from which to view his cultural and social world. As one of the first comprehensive studies of any Italian Jewish figure of the period, this book represents an important contribution to an understanding of Jewish society and culture. But the significance of this study of Farissol's life extends beyond what can be learned about the man and his immediate community of co-religionists. Utilizing the life and thought of one person, it explores and explicates the dialogue between Judaism and the culture of the Italian Renaissance. Despite its intrinsic interest, Jewish intellectual history in the Renaissance has remained an underdeveloped field. Many sources still remain unexamined; monographs on specific themes and figures have yet to be written. David Ruderman's study breaks new ground by making use of extensive, yet previously unpublished sources on Farissol and his society and by integrating them into the broader context of Jewish and Renaissance culture. The work is of particular interest to historians of the Jews and of Renaissance Italy. It also offers the general reader an excellent case study of the symbiotic relationship between Western culture and its Jewish minority in one of the most fertile periods of European civilization. In dramatic fashion it illustrates how Jews not only survived but creatively flourished in a pluralistic setting by appropriating from the outside new forms and ideas which they integrated into their own vital cultural experience.
The Jews In The Renaissance
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Author : Cecil Roth
language : en
Publisher: Philadelphia, Jewish Pub. S. of America
Release Date : 1959
The Jews In The Renaissance written by Cecil Roth and has been published by Philadelphia, Jewish Pub. S. of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Jews categories.
The History Of The Jews In Early Modern Italy
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Author : Marina Caffiero
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-05-05
The History Of The Jews In Early Modern Italy written by Marina Caffiero and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-05 with History categories.
Challenging traditional historiographical approaches, this book offers a new history of Italian Jews in the early modern age. The fortunes of the Jewish communities of Italy in their various aspects – demographic, social, economic, cultural, and religious – can only be understood if these communities are integrated into the picture of a broader European, or better still, global system of Jewish communities and populations; and, that this history should be analyzed from within the dense web of relationships with the non-Jewish surroundings that enveloped the Italian communities. The book presents new approaches on such essential issues as ghettoization, antisemitism, the Inquisition, the history of conversion, and Jewish-Christian relations. It sheds light on the autonomous culture of the Jews in Italy, focusing on case studies of intellectual and cultural life using a micro-historical perspective. This book was first published in Italy in 2014 by one of the leading scholars on Italian Jewish history. This book will appeal to students and scholars alike studying and researching Jewish history, early modern Italy, early modern Jewish and Italian culture, and early modern society.
The Jews Of Early Modern Venice
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Author : Robert C. Davis
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2001-03-28
The Jews Of Early Modern Venice written by Robert C. Davis and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-28 with History categories.
The constraints of the ghetto and the concomitant interaction of various Jewish traditions produced a remarkable cultural flowering.