| Description |
1 online resource (x, 432 pages) : illustrations |
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Jewish Latin American studies |
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Jewish Latin American studies.
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| Contents |
Roman attitudes to Jews and Judaism in the first century BCE : between Hellenistic traditions and local realities / Miriam Ben Zeev -- The oldest complete extant Sefer Torah rediscovered at the Bologna University Library : codicological, textual, and paleographic features of an ancient eastern tradition / Mauro Perani -- Palestinian and Babylonian traditions in Italy at the outset of the Middle Ages : the Yerushalmi in the writings of R. Isaiah di Trani (the Rid) / Yaron Silverstein -- Abraham de Balmes's Miqneh Abram : an adaptation of modistic concepts by a Hebrew grammarian of the Renaissance / Dror Ben-Arié -- The anonymous Hebrew translation of Giordano Ruffo's De medicina equorum and its language / Michael Ryzhik -- Between the Book of Jossipon and the Book of Jasher / Carmela Saranga -- Italian Jewry and Kabbalistic rites / Moshe Hallamish -- Ladino translations from Italy : the Bible, Pirke Avot, the Passover Haggadah, and the Siddur / Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald -- The Jews of France and Italy during the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Shimon Schwarzfuchs -- Torah and nature in the writings of some Italian Jewish thinkers of the Renaissance / Miguel Antonio Beltrán Munar -- Prenuptial agreements in Ketubot from Italy / Yoel Shilo -- Jewish Ashkenazi gastronomy in northern Italy in the early modern period : the testimony of the book Mitzvot Hanashim / Zahava Weishouse -- The depiction of Jesus's Circumcision and Presentation in the Temple in early modern paintings in Venice : some questions on Jesus's identity / Maria Portmann -- Freemasonry and Saint-Simonism as carriers of Enlightenment values in David Levi's Weltanschauung / Alessandro Grazi -- The unique characteristics of Dybbuk exorcisms in Rabbinic documents from eighteenth-century Italy / Yaniv Goldberg -- Rabbinic ties between Italy and Aleppo in the eighteenth century / Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky -- Jewish solidarity : the actions and support of the union of Italian Israelite communities for the Jews of Libya and Ethiopia in the 1930s / Yitzhak Mualem -- The dispute between Italy and France in Tunisia : the role of language and the position of Italian Jewry / Filippo Petrucci -- Jews as promoters of Italian civilization in Libya / Rachel Simon -- The relations of the Holy See with the Jewish people after the 1993 fundamental agreement between the Holy See and the state of Israel : divergence between the interreligious dialogue with the Jews of Rome and the diplomatic dialogue with Israel / Eliav Taub -- Primo Levi : chemist/writer, Italian/Jew / Smadar Shiffman -- Jewish educational proposals in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Florence / Silvia Guetta |
| Summary |
Based on lectures given at the conference ""The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage"", this collection offers the reader a wide range of subjects reflecting various scholarly perspectives such as history; Christian-Jewish relations; Kabbalah; commentary on the Bible and Talmud; language, grammar, and translation; literature; philosophy; gastronomy; art; culture; folklore; and education |
| Notes |
"In September 2011, a major congress was convened at the Bologna University Department of Cultural Heritage ... All twenty-two articles in the current volume are based on lectures given at the conference"--Preface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2022) |
| Subject |
Jews -- Italy -- History -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Jewish Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
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Jews
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Italy
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harel, Yaron, editor.
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Perani, Mauro, editor.
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| LC no. |
2019006077 |
| ISBN |
9781644690260 |
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1644690268 |
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