The Jews of Early Modern Venice

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6512-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

In this authoritative volume, specialists from many fields of Jewish studies provide an introduction to the history of the ghetto of Venice and up-to-date scholarship on the subject from the perspectives of various disciplines—including political, economic, women's, institutional, social and cultural history, religious studies, and musicology. While the book's coverage extends throughout Venetian history and to the broader contexts of Italy, the main focus is the period when Jewish life in the city was at its most vigorous—from the early sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries, a period which saw the creation of both the cultural heritage and the physical architecture that came to characterize the ghetto.

The eleven essays constituting the volume are divided into three sections. The first section, titled "Settlement," provides a historical overview and topographical prologue. The second section, "Ethnicities and Identities," examines the varied social groups that combined to make up the ghetto community. The final section, "Cultures," looks at the traditions of faith, thought, and art which were produced in the Venetian ghetto over the centuries.

As the editors point out, the ghetto and its community "paradoxically was at the same time an integral part of the city of Venice while also rigorously excluded from it." The constraints of the ghetto and the concomitant interaction of various Jewish traditions produced a remarkable cultural flowering.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Robert C

Ravid, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I. Settlement
The Venetian Government and the Jews
The "City of the Jews"
Part II. Ethnicities and Identities
Jewish Banks and Monti di Pietà, Brian Pullan
Jews in International Trade: The Emergence of the Levantines and Ponentines
Jews, Crypto-Jews, and the Inquisition
The Ghetto Republic
Jewish Women and Family Life, Inside and Outside the Ghetto
Part III. Cultures
A Cultural Profile
Medicine and Scientific Thought: The World of Tobias Cohen
Jewish Musical Culture: Leon Modena
Processions, Piety, and Jewish Confraternities

Über Autor(innen)

Davis, Robert C
Robert C. Davis is a professor of Italian Renaissance and early modern Mediterranean history at the Ohio State University. His publications include The Jews of Early Modern Venice, The War of the Fists, and (coedited with Judith Brown) Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy.

Robert C. Davis is an associate professor of Italian history at the Ohio State University. His publications include Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal, The War of the Fists, and (coedited with Judith Brown) Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy. Benjamin Ravid is Jennie and Mayer Weisman Professor of Jewish History at Brandeis University. He is the author of Economics and Toleration in Seventeenth Century Venice: The Background and Context of the Discorso of Simone Luzzatto.