Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.
Authors
David N. Myers, Massimo Ciavolella, Peter Reill, Geoffrey Symcox
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 945.00492/4
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-it---
- ISBN
- 9781442687318 9780802098511
- LCCN
- DS135.I8
- LCCN Item number
- A24 2008eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 228 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00224418 (OCoLC)635459159 (CaOOCEL)430724
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Contributors 8
- Introduction 12
- PART I: RENAISSANCE REVERBERATIONS 26
- 1 How ‘Other’ Really Was the Jewish Other? The Evidence from Venice 28
- 2 Emotion and Acculturation: Masquerading Emotion in the Roman Ghetto 65
- 3 Between Exclusion and Inclusion: Jews as Portrayed in Italian Music from the Late Fifteenth to the Early Seventeenth Centuries 81
- 4 Can Fundamentalism Be Modern? The Case of Avraham Portaleone (1542–1612) 108
- PART II: INTO MODERNITY 126
- 5 Jewish Women, Marriage Law, and Emancipation: The Civil Divorce of Rachele Morschene in Late Eighteenth-Century Trieste 128
- 6 The Jews of Italy in the Triennio Giacobino, 1796–1799 157
- 7 Singing Modernity: Synagogue Music in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Italy 173
- 8 ‘Their True Tongue’: History, Memory, Language, and the Jews of Italy 192
- 9 Growing Up Jewish in Ferrara: The Fiction of Giorgio Bassani 212
- Index 220
- A 220
- B 221
- C 222
- D 223
- E 223
- F 224
- G 224
- H 225
- I 226
- J 226
- K 228
- L 228
- M 229
- N 230
- O 231
- P 231
- R 232
- S 233
- T 234
- V 235
- W 237
- Z 237
