Jewish Life In Renaissance Italy
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Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy
Author | : Robert Bonfil |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 1994-03-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520910997 |
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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
Author | : Dana E. Katz |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008-06-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780812240856 |
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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
Author | : Robert Bonfil |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1989-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781909821255 |
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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.
A Convert s Tale
Author | : Tamar Herzig |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2019-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674237537 |
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Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.
Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy
Author | : Flora Cassen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2017-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107175433 |
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This book examines the discriminatory marking of Jews in Renaissance Italy and the impacts this had on the Jewish communities.
The Jews in the Renaissance
Author | : Cecil Roth |
Publsiher | : Philadelphia, Jewish Pub. S. of America |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106000426699 |
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A Convert s Tale
Author | : Tamar Herzig |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2019-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674242562 |
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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
Author | : David Ruderman |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780814774199 |
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This book represents a sample of the most penetrating Jewish movements.