The Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference / edited by Shlomo Simonsohn, Joseph Shatzmiller.

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List of Contributors; List of Illustrations; Opening Remarks; The Escape from Vasto, Complaints of a 15th-Century Rabbi; Fortune and Providence: A Paradigm in Isaac Abravanel's Encounter With Renaissance Culture; Jews and the Grain, Oil and Wine Trades in 15th- and 16th-Century Apulia; Jewish Book Collection and Patronage in Renaissance Italy; Joseph Ha-Cohen and His Negative Attitude Toward R. Meir Katzenellenbogen (Maharam Padova); Re-creating Creation in the Early Italian Yozer: Between Tradition and Innovation; The Type of Community Minute Books-Some Preliminary Conclusions.

Again on the Mobility of Italian Jews Between the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceTowards Jewish Emancipation in the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany: The Case of Pitigliano Through the Emblematic Figure of David Consiglio; The Material Context of 15th-Century Hebrew Florentine Manuscripts: A Source of Information on Production, Ownership and Control of Hebrew Books in Their Christian Environment; Italy, the "Breadbasket" of Hebrew Manuscripts; Rhymes To Sing and Rhymes To Hang Up: Some Remarks on a Lampoon in Yiddish By Elye Bokher (Venice 1514).

A Matter of Quotation: Dante and the Literary Identity of Jews in ItalyFrom Sicily to Rome: The Cultural Route of Michele Zumat, Physician and Rabbi in the 16th Century; The Angevins of Naples and the Jews; International Trade and Italian Jews at the Turn of the Middle Ages; The Conservation of History: The Archives of the Jewish Communities in the Veneto; The Jewish Presence in Sicily as Reflected in Medieval Sicilian Historiography; Index of Names; Index of Geographical Terms.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference, held at Tel Aviv University 3-5 January, 2010, on the occasion of the jubilee celebration of outstanding scholarship on the history of Italian Jewry.

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