Cultural Intermediaries - Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy (Hardcover, New)

Focusing on an epoch of spectacular demographic, political, economic, and cultural changes for European Jewry, Cultural Intermediaries chronicles the lives and thinking of ten Jewish intellectuals of the Renaissance, nine of them from Italy and one a Portuguese exile who settled in the Ottoman empire after a long sojourn in Italy. David B. Ruderman, Giuseppe Veltri, and the other contributors to this volume detail how, in the relative openness of cultural exchange encountered in such intellectual centers as Florence, Mantua, Pisa, Naples, Ferrara, and Salonika, these Jewish savants sought to enlarge their cultural horizons, to correlate the teachings of their own tradition with those outside it, and to rethink the meaning of their religious and ethnic identities within the intellectual and religious categories common to European civilization as a whole. The engaging intellectual profiles created especially for this volume by scholars from Israel, North America, and Europe represent an important rereading and reinterpretation of early modern Jewish culture and society and its broader European intellectual contexts.

General

Imprint:	University of PennsylvaniaPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Jewish Culture and Contexts
Release date:	April 2004
First published:	2004
Editors:	David B. Ruderman • Giuseppe Veltri
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	304
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8122-3779-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Promotions
LSN:	0-8122-3779-X
Barcode:	9780812237795

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