Jewish life in Renaissance Italy /

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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bonfil, Robert
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
italien
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1994.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnjq1
Table des matières:
  • 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.