Rabbis and Jewish Communities in Renaissance Italy

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT BONFIL
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Renaissance Italy

Love, Work and Death

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel Toaff
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Archival Documentation ◽  
Renaissance Italy

The latter part of the thirteenth century is regarded as a key period in the history of Italian Jewry. During that time many Jewish communities sprang up in the regions of central and northern Italy. Their appearance marked a turning-point in the history of Jews in the Italian peninsula as the Jewish presence had previously been focused on Rome and the south. This acclaimed study, originally published in Italian, captures all the intricacies of everyday life in the medieval Jewish communities of Umbria. The book characterizes in detail the defining features of Jewish life in the region at that time and shows clearly how the common stereotype of a single, undifferentiated Jewish community does not reflect the reality. Instead, the book presents a picture of a complex society that contributed greatly to contemporary society and played a significant role in shaping it, while at the same time also being influenced by the surrounding Christian society. The book elaborates contemporary Jewish traditions and practices associated with love, marriage, food, work, sickness, and death in the context of everyday social relations between Christians and Jews. In so doing it presents a reconstruction of the Jewish life of the period that faithfully reflects the links and divides between the two communities. The book will be of interest to the general reader, while its detailed references to archival documentation make it a particularly valuable source for students of medieval Jewish history and specialists in the social history of medieval and Renaissance Italy.

Book reviews

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Roger Syrén ◽  
Morton Narrowe ◽  
Karl-Johan Illman
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Communities

Judendom och kristendom under de första århundradena. Nordiskt patristikerprojekt 1982–85. Vol. 1 (eds. Sten Hidal, Karl-Johan Illman, Tryggve Kronholm et al, 1986) is reviewed by Roger Syrén and M.H. Narrowe.The Jewish communities of Scandinavia. Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland (Daniel J. Elazar, Adina Weiss Liberles & Simcha Werner, 1984) is reviewed by M.H. Narrowe.Svensk antisemitism 1880–1930 (Mattias Tydén, 1986) is reviewed by Karl-Johan Illman.Helvetestransporten (Ragnar Kvam, 1986) is reviewed by Karl-Johan Illman.

The Jewish Communities in Eastern Rough Cilicia

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-216
Author(s):  
Mark R. Fairchild
Keyword(s):  
Western Anatolia ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
Written Sources

This article discusses Jewish communities and their material remains in Eastern Rough Cilicia mainly during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. After mentioning some written sources about the Jewish presence in western Anatolia, the general paucity of testimonies about Jewish communities in central and eastern Anatolia is emphasized. This lack of evidence might be due to the fact, that both areas are not as well explored and researched as Western Anatolia. The focus of the paper lies on the eastern most region of Rough Cilicia. It discusses rock inscriptions, rock carvings, and (decorated) architectural remains which bear witness to a strong Jewish presence in many cities of this region.

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