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Kenneth Stow.
Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome: Challenge, Conversion, and Private Life.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Variorum Collected Studies series, CS879.
ISBN 9780754659167.
Hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
156x229x24mm.
xiv,336pp.
2 essays in Italian, the rest in English.
Very good condition: an unused review copy with some light shelf wear.This item £40.00
[Publisher's price £65.00/$124.95]
643g.
Collects several previously published papers. Contents:
The burning of the Talmud in 1553, in the light of 16th century Catholic attitudes toward the Talmud;
The consciousness of closure: Roman Jewry and its ghet;
Expulsion Italian style: the case of Lucio Ferraris;
The good of the Church, the good of the state: the Popes and Jewish money;
Church, conversion and tradition: the problem of Jewish conversion in 16th century Italy;
A tale of uncertainties: converts in the Roman ghetto;
Neofiti and their families, or perhaps, the good of the state;
Delitto e castigo nello stato della chiesa: gli ebrei nelle carceri romane dal 1572 al 1659;
Prossimità o distanza: etnicità, sefarditi e assenza di conflitti etnici nella Roma del sedicesimo secolo;
Ethnic rivalry or melting pot: the 'edot' in the Roman ghetto;
Ethnic amalgamation, like it or not: inheritance in early modern Jewish Rome;
Abramo ben Aaron Scazzocchio, another kind of Rabbi;
The knotty problem of Shem Tov Soporto: male honor, marital initiation, and disciplinary structures in mid-16th-century Jewish Rome;
The new fashioned from the old: parallels in public and learned memory and practice in 16th century Jewish Rome;
Corporate double talk: Kehillat Kodesh and Universitas in the Roman Jewish 16th century environment;
Marriages are made in heaven: marriage and the individual in the Roman Jewish ghetto;
Writing in Hebrew, thinking in Italian;
Jewish pre-emancipation: ius commune, the Roman communità, and marriage in the early modern Papal State.
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