Description |
1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Series |
Jewish culture and contexts |
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Jewish culture and contexts.
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Contents |
Cover -- Invisible Enlighteners -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Spelling, Translations, and Currency -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Network of Jewish Families in the Early Modern Period: The Road Toward Ghettoization -- Chapter 2. Jewish Leaders, Their Circles, and Their Books Before the Inquisition: A Parallel Story -- Chapter 3. The Jewish Household: Family Networks, Social Control, and Gendered Spaces -- Chapter 4. The "Invisible" Wealth of Silver: The Journey of the Formigginis from the Ghetto to the Ducal Court |
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Chapter 5. Jewish Female Agency in the Ghetto Mercantile Elite -- Chapter 6. The Jewish Urban Geography of the Ghetto and Beyond -- Chapter 7. Moisè Formiggini Before Napoleon: Two Steps Toward Emancipation and One Step Back -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Summary |
In Invisible Enlighteners, Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Their sociocultural transformation and legal and political integration evolved through a dialogue between their Italian and Jewish identities |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed June 21, 2021) |
Subject |
Jewish merchants -- Italy -- Modena -- History -- 17th century
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Jewish merchants -- Italy -- Modena -- History -- 18th century
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Jews -- Italy -- Modena -- History -- 17th century
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Jews -- Italy -- Modena -- History -- 18th century
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HISTORY -- Jewish.
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Jewish merchants
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Jews
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Social conditions
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SUBJECT |
Modena (Italy) -- Social conditions -- 17th century
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Modena (Italy) -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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Subject |
Italy -- Modena
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0812299620 |
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9780812299625 |
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