Surviving the Ghetto - Toward a Social History of the Jewish Community in 16th-Century Rome

In Surviving the Ghetto, Serena Di Nepi recounts the first fifty years of the ghetto, exploring the social and cultural strategies that allowed the Jews of Rome to preserve their identity and resist Catholic conversion over three long centuries (1555-1870).

About the author

Serena Di Nepi, Ph.D (2007), Sapienza University Rome, is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at that university. She has published extensively on Jews and other religious minorities in early modern Italy, including Storie intrecciate (Rome: 2015).

Product details

• Authors: Serena Di Nepi
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2020
• EAN: 9789004431188
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43118-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Weight: 600 g
• Series: Studies in Jewish History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education