Cover; Contents; A Note on Usage; Introduction. Networks of Jewish life in Venetian Crete; Chapter 1. The Jewish Community of Candia; Chapter 2. Jewish-Christian Relations, Inside and Outside the Jewish Quarter; Chapter 3. Colonial Justice and Jewish-Christian Encounter; Chapter 4. Jewish Choice and the secular Courtroom; Chapter 5. Marriage on Trial; Chapter 6. Inviting the State into the Kahal; Conclusion. Crete's Jewish Renaissance Men in Context; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Acknowledgments
Summary
Rena N. Lauer shows how Crete's Jews turned not only to their own religious courts but also to the secular Venetian judicial system to address matters as prosaic as taxation and as dramatic as murder. In the process, Lauer contends, Venetian Jews grew more open and flexible, experiencing little of the anti-Judaism common in Western Europe
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 11, 2019)