History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy

<p>Challenging traditional historiographical approaches this book offers a new history of Italian Jews in the early modern age. The fortunes of the Jewish communities of Italy in their various aspects – demographic social economic cultural and religious – can only be understood if these communities are integrated into the picture of a broader European or better still global system of Jewish communities and populations; and that this history should be analyzed from within the dense web of relationships with the non-Jewish surroundings that enveloped the Italian communities. The book presents new approaches on such essential issues 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 using a micro-historical perspective. This book was first published in Italy in 2014 by one of the leading scholars on Italian Jewish history.</p><p>This book will appeal to students and scholars alike studying and researching Jewish history early modern Italy early modern Jewish and Italian culture and early modern society.</p>