The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy: From the Renaissance to the Restoration

This book offers a new perspective on Italian Jewish history by integrating it into a broader European and global system. It explores essential issues such as ghettoization, antisemitism, the Inquisition, conversion, and Jewish-Christian relations through case studies of intellectual and cultural life.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 214 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Challenging traditional historiographical approaches, this comprehensive volume presents a fresh and innovative history of Italian Jews during the early modern era. To fully comprehend the fortunes of the Jewish communities in Italy, it is essential to integrate them into the broader tapestry of European and global Jewish communities and populations. Moreover, the analysis of this history should be approached from within the intricate web of relationships with the non-Jewish surroundings that enveloped the Italian communities.

The book offers groundbreaking new perspectives on crucial topics such as ghettoization, antisemitism, the Inquisition, the history of conversion, and Jewish-Christian relations. It sheds light on the autonomous culture of the Jews in Italy, focusing on case studies of intellectual and cultural life through a micro-historical lens.

Originally published in Italy in 2014 by one of the foremost scholars in Italian Jewish history, this book has already garnered significant attention and praise from the academic community. It will be of immense interest to students and scholars engaged in the study and research of Jewish history, early modern Italy, early modern Jewish and Italian culture, and early modern society.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032036694