Jewish life in Renaissance Italy / Robert Bonfil ; translated by Anthony Oldcorn.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 319 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9780520910997
- 0520910990
- 0585081328
- 9780585081328
- 9780520073500
- 0520073509
- Gli Ebrei in Italia nell'epoca del Rinascimento. English
- 945/.004924 20
- DS135.I8 B6613 1994eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Structures of settlement and the economy -- The laws of topodemographic distribution -- Trades and professions -- pt. 2. Structures of culture and society -- The problem of sociocultural identity: some preliminary observations -- Education and the rabbinical ideal -- Jewish culture hebraists, and the role of the Kabbalah -- Community institutions -- pt. 3. Structures of mentality -- Time and space -- Sounds and silence -- Colors, tastes, and odors -- The days of life -- Death as the mirror of life.
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With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature.
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