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Author Myers, David N

Title Acculturation and Its Discontents : the Italian Jewish Experience Between Exclusion and Inclusion
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages)
Series UCLA Clark Memorial Library ; v. 10
UCLA Clark Memorial Library
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: RENAISSANCE REVERBERATIONS -- 1 How 'Other' Really Was the Jewish Other? The Evidence from Venice -- 2 Emotion and Acculturation: Masquerading Emotion in the Roman Ghetto -- 3 Between Exclusion and Inclusion: Jews as Portrayed in Italian Music from the Late Fifteenth to the Early Seventeenth Centuries -- 4 Can Fundamentalism Be Modern? The Case of Avraham Portaleone (1542-1612) -- PART II: INTO MODERNITY -- 5 Jewish Women, Marriage Law, and Emancipation: The Civil Divorce of Rachele Morschene in Late Eighteenth-Century Trieste -- 6 The Jews of Italy in the Triennio Giacobino, 1796-1799 -- 7 Singing Modernity: Synagogue Music in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Italy -- 8 'Their True Tongue': History, Memory, Language, and the Jews of Italy -- 9 Growing Up Jewish in Ferrara: The Fiction of Giorgio Bassani -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z
Summary Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry
Notes Print version record
Subject Jews -- Italy -- History
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Italy
Jews -- Italy -- Social conditions
Ethnic relations
Jews
Jews -- Cultural assimilation
Jews -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Italy -- Ethnic relations
Subject Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ciavolella, Massimo
Reill, Peter
Symcox, University Geoffrey
ISBN 9781442687318
1442687312