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Informationen zum Autor STANISLAO G. PUGLIESE is Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University and a Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University. He has published widely on Italian and Italian-American subjects and is the author of Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile , which was awarded the 2000 International Ignazio Silone Prize. Klappentext A volume of essays that examine more than 2,000 years of Italian Jewish history, from ancient Rome to contemporary developments concerning assimilation, literature, and the recent trial of a former SS captain implicated in crimes against humanity. The essays make clear that the Italian Jews have a unique history in Europe. A Jewish colony existed in Rome 200 years before the birth of Christ; the Eternal City therefore represents the oldest Jewish community in the Western world. Successive waves of immigrants created dozens of Jewish communities on the peninsula. Depending on the time and the place, Italian Jews could expect tolerance, discrimination, persecution, or outright violence. Still, they fared better than their brethren in other parts of Europe. Because of their long history on the peninsula, the volume covers an astonishing variety of subjects: from legal discrimination and historical sources to Jewish dancing masters in the Renaissance; from architecture to contradictory interpretations of the Holocaust; from the special section on the linguistic and moral power of Primo Levi to child-rearing manuals of 17th-century Livorno. In addition, two Holocaust survivors recount their experiences in an extraordinary section, The Language of the Witness. Engaging essays for scholars, students, and other researchers interested in Italian Studies and the roles the peninsula's Jewish population played through history. Zusammenfassung A volume of essays that examine more than 2!000 years of Italian Jewish history! from ancient Rome to contemporary developments concerning assimilation! literature! and the recent trial of a former SS captain implicated in crimes against humanity. The essays make clear that the Italian Jews have a unique history in Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Israel in Italy: Wrestling with the Lord in the Land of Divine Dew by Stanislao G. Pugliese Historiography & the Law Legal Discrimination Against the Jews: Ancient Rome to Unification by Sandra Tozzini Blaming the Victims: Modern Historiography on the Early Imperial Mistreatment of Roman Jews by Dixon Slingerland Historical Sources on Italian Jews: From the 14th Century to the Shoah by Micaela Procaccia Medieval & Renaissance Italy Florence Against the Jews or Jews Against Florence in the 14th and 15th Centuries? by Michele Luzzati Between Tradition and Modernity: The Sephardim of Livorno at the End of the 17th Century by Julia R. Lieberman Jewish Dancing Master and "Jewish Dance" in Renaissance Italy by Barbara Sparti The Expulsion from the Papal States (1569) in the Light of Hebrew Sources by Abraham David The Case of Ferdinando Alvarez and His Wife Leocadia of Rome (1640) by Nancy Goldsmith Leiphart Giovanni di Giovanni: Chronicler of Sicily's Jews by Salvatore Rotella Literature, Art, and Identity Judeo-Italian: Italian Dialect or Jewish Lnaguage? by George Jochnowitz The Culture of Italian Jews and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice by H. Wendell Howard Emancipation and Jewish Literature in the Italian Canon by Roberto Dainotto Assimilationn vs. Orthodoxy in the Literature of 20th Century Italian Jews by Lynn Gunzberg Racial Laws and Internment in Natalia Ginzberg's Lessico familiare by Claudia Nocentini Clara Sereni and Contemporary Italian Jewish Literature by Elisabetta Nelsen Art, Architecture, and Italian Jewish Identity by Samuel Gruber Italian Jewish Literature from the Second World War to the 1990s by ...
