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{it} Robert Bonfil. Cultural Change among the Jews of Early Modern Italy. Farnham: Ashgate/Variorum, 2010. <biography>

Contents

I. The historian's perception of the Jews in the Italian Renaissance: towards a reappraisal -- II. Some reflections on the place of Azariah de Rossi's Meor Enayim in the cultural milieu of Italian Renaissance Jewry -- III. Halakhah, Kabbalah and society: some insights into Rabbi Menahem Azariah Da Fano's inner world -- IV. Cultura e mistica a Venezia nel Cinquecento -- V. How golden was the age of the Renaissance in Jewish historiography? -- VI. Change in the cultural patterns of a Jewish society in crisis: Italian Jewry at the close of the sixteenth century -- VII. Preaching as mediation between elite and popular cultures: the case of Judah del bene -- VIII. Changing mentalities of Italian Jews between the periods of the Renaissance and the Baroque -- IX. Italy -- The sad epilogue to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain -- X. Gli ebrei d'Italia e la riforma: una questione da riconsiderare -- XI. Jewish attitudes toward history and historical writing in pre-modern times -- XII. A cultural profile (of the Jews in early modern Venice) -- XIII. II problema dei conversos nel xv secolo e le sue ripercussioni per la ristrutturazione dell'atteggiamento ebraico nei confronti del cristianesimo all'alba dell'epoca moderna.