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Jewish life in Renaissance Italy / Robert Bonfil ; translated by Anthony Oldcorn.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 319 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520910997
  • 0520910990
  • 0585081328
  • 9780585081328
  • 9780520073500
  • 0520073509
Uniform titles:
  • Gli Ebrei in Italia nell'epoca del Rinascimento. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jewish life in Renaissance ItalyDDC classification:
  • 945/.004924 20
LOC classification:
  • DS135.I8
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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