Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy

This book represents a sample of the most penetrating Jewish movements.

List of contents

The world of a renaissance jew; the life and thought of Abraham h. Mordecai Farissol (1981); Kabbalah magic and science - the cultural universe of a 16th century Jewish physician (1988).

Summary

Seeking to move away from the stereotypical views of the Italian Jew in the early modern period as Shylockian usurer or mysterious astrologer, these papers address such topics as Italian Jewish preaching, the Kabbalah, Jewish historiography, messianic expectations, and Jewish ghetto culture.

Product details

• Authors: Harun Farocki, Kaja Silverman
• Assisted by: David Ruderman (Editor), David B. Ruderman (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1992
• EAN: 9780814774199
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-7419-9
• No. of pages: 512
• Weight: 880 g
• Series: Essential Papers on Jewish Studies; Essential Papers on Jewish Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories