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This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Calabria from the end of the fourth century, where the first archaeological evidence of their presence appears, to 1541.
Author : Cesare Colafemmina
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9004233741
This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Calabria from the end of the fourth century, where the first archaeological evidence of their presence appears, to 1541.
Author : Joseph R. Hacker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 081220509X
The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology—and the relatively rapid embrace of it among early modern Jews—certainly had an effect on many aspects of Jewish culture. One major change that print seems to have brought to the Jewish communities of Christian Europe, particularly in Italy, was greater interaction between Jews and Christians in the production and dissemination of books. Starting in the early sixteenth century, the locus of production for Jewish books in many places in Italy was in Christian-owned print shops, with Jews and Christians collaborating on the editorial and technical processes of book production. As this Jewish-Christian collaboration often took place under conditions of control by Christians (for example, the involvement of Christian typesetters and printers, expurgation and censorship of Hebrew texts, and state control of Hebrew printing), its study opens up an important set of questions about the role that Christians played in shaping Jewish culture. Presenting new research by an international group of scholars, this book represents a step toward a fuller understanding of Jewish book history. Individual essays focus on a range of issues related to the production and dissemination of Hebrew books as well as their audiences. Topics include the activities of scribes and printers, the creation of new types of literature and the transformation of canonical works in the era of print, the external and internal censorship of Hebrew books, and the reading interests of Jews. An introduction summarizes the state of scholarship in the field and offers an overview of the transition from manuscript to print in this period.
Author : Simon Levis Sullam
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0691209200
In this revisionist history of Italy's role in the Holocaust, the author presents an account of how ordinary Italians actively participated in the deportation of Italy's Jews between 1943 and 1945, when Mussolini's collaborationist republic was under German occupation
Author : Carlo Giordano
Publisher : Scienze e Lettere
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Ron Arons
Publisher : Barricade Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781569801536
Once Ron Arons was over the shock of learning that his great-grandfather had done a 'stretch' in the famed sing sing prison, he embarked on a journey to learn more about his ancestor and how he landed in jail. What he discovered was that between 1880 and 1950 there were thousands of Jews behind bars at Sing Sing, for crimes ranging from incest to arson to selling air rights over Manhattan. The Jews of Sing Sing is the first book to fully expose the scope of Jewish criminality over the past 160 years, and it features famous gangsters like Lepke Buchalter.
Author : William David Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521219297
Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.
Author : Carlo Spartaco Capogreco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0429820992
This book—which is based on vast archival research and on a variety of primary sources—has filled a gap in Italy’s historiography on Fascism, and in European and world history about concentration camps in our contemporary world. It provides, for the first time, a survey of the different types of internment practiced by Fascist Italy during the war and a historical map of its concentration camps. Published in Italian (I campi del duce, Turin: Einaudi, 2004), in Croatian (Mussolinijevi Logori, Zagreb: Golden Marketing – Tehnička knjiga, 2007), in Slovenian (Fašistična taborišča, Ljublana: Publicistično društvo ZAK, 2011), and now in English, Mussolini’s Camps is both an excellent product of academic research and a narrative easily accessible to readers who are not professional historians. It undermines the myth that concentration camps were established in Italy only after the creation of the Republic of Salò and the Nazi occupation of Italy’s northern regions in 1943, and questions the persistent and traditional image of Italians as brava gente (good people), showing how Fascism made extensive use of the camps (even in the occupied territories) as an instrument of coercion and political control.
Author : Anna Collar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107043441
Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.
Author : Elizabeth Bettina
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1595553215
One woman's discovery-and the incredible, unexpected journey it takes her on-of how her grandparent's small village of Campagna, Italy, helped save Jews during the Holocaust. Take a journey with Elizabeth Bettina as she discovers-much to her surprise-that her grandparent's small village, nestled in the heart of southern Italy, housed an internment camp for Jews during the Holocaust, and that it was far from the only one. Follow her discovery of survivors and their stories of gratitude to Italy and its people. Explore the little known details of how members of the Catholic church assisted and helped shelter Jews in Italy during World War II.
Author : N. Zeldes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004128989
This book studies the converted Jews in sicily following the 1492 expulsion, using contemporary sources to examine their legal, economic and cultural circumstances. It also sheds new light on Spanish Royal policies and the establishment of the Inquisition in Sicily.