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With this heady exploration of time and space, rumours and silence, colours, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation". Questioning the Italians' presumed capacity for tolerance and civility, he points out that Jews were frequently uprooted and persecuted, and where stable communities did grow up, it was because the hostility of the Christian population had somehow been overcome. After the ghetto was imposed in Venice, Rome, and other Italian cities, Jewish settlement became more concentrated. Bonfil claims that the ghetto experience did more to intensify Jewish self-perception in early modern Europe than the supposed acculturatrion of the Renaissance. H how, paradoxically, ghetto living opened and transformed Jewish culture, hastening secularization and modernization.

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Robert Bonfil is Professor of Jewish History at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His extensive publications on the history of Italian Jewry in Hebrew, Italian, French, and English have earned him an international reputation. Anthony Oldcorn is Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University.
Release date Australia
March 4th, 1994
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
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  • Translated by Anthony Oldcorn
Pages
336
Dimensions
152x229x27
ISBN-13
9780520073500
Product ID
7578832

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