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Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy »

Authors: David Ruderman
ISBN-13: 9780814774205, ISBN-10: 0814774202
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: January 1992
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: David Ruderman

David Ruderman.

Book Synopsis

This book represents a sample of the most penetrating Jewish movements.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
I	Jewish Culture and the Renaissance
A	New Forms of Hebrew Literary Execution: Rhetoric, Humanism, and the Jewish Sermon
1	Jewish Adaptation of Humanist Concepts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy	45
2	Ars Rhetorica as Reflected in Some Jewish Figures of the Italian Renaissance	63
3	Italian Jewish Preaching: An Overview	85
B	The Jewish Encounter with Magic, Ancient Theology, and Neoplatonism
4	The Magical and Neoplatonic Interpretations of the Kabbalah in the Renaissance	107
5	The Place of the Dialoghi d'amore in Contemporaneous Jewish Thought	170
C	Jewish Historical Writing in the Sixteenth Century
6	Clio and the Jews: Reflections on Jewish Historiography in the Sixteenth Century	191
7	How Golden Was the Age of the Renaissance in Jewish Historiography?	219
8	Azariah de' Rossi and the Forgeries of Annius of Viterbo	252
D	Sixteenth-Century Messianism and Kabbalah and Their Transformations in Italy
9	Messianic Expectations and Spiritualization of Religious Life in the Sixteenth Century	283
10	Hope against Hope: Jewish and Christian Messianic Expectations in the Late Middle Ages	299
11	Particularism and Universalism in Kabbalah, 1480-1650	324
12	Major Currents in Italian Kabbalah between 1560 and 1660	345
II	Jewish Culture in the Setting of the Ghetto
A	The Significance of the Ghetto in Shaping Jewish Society and Culture
13	From Geographical Realia to Historiographical Symbol: The Odyssey of the Word Ghetto	373
14	The Consciousness of Closure: Roman Jewry and Its Ghet	386
15	Change in the Cultural Patterns of a Jewish Society in Crisis: Italian Jewry at the Close of the Sixteenth Century	401
B	Cultural Trends In the Age of the Ghetto
16	Leone da Modena's Riti: A Seventeenth-Century Plea for Social Toleration of Jews	429
17	Tradition and Innovation in Jewish Music of the Later Renaissance	474
18	Baroque Trends in Italian Hebrew Poetry as Reflected in an Unknown Genre	502
19	The Impact of Science on Jewish Culture and Society in Venice	519
20	The Eve of the Circumcision: A Chapter in the History of Jewish Nightlife	554
	Index	589
	About the Editor	598