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Mediterranean Enlightenment - Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform (Hardcover)
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Mediterranean Enlightenment - Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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The Mediterranean port of Livorno was home to one of the most
prominent and privileged Jewish enclaves of early modern Europe.
Focusing on Livornese Jewry, this book offers an alternative
perspective on Jewish acculturation during the eighteenth century,
and reassesses common assumptions about the interactions of Jews
with outside culture and the impact of state reforms on the
corporate Jewish community. Working from a vast array of previously
untapped archival and literary sources, Francesca Bregoli combines
cultural analysis with a study of institutional developments to
investigate Jewish responses to Enlightenment thought and politics,
as well as non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, through an exploration
of Jewish-Christian cultural exchange, sites of sociability, and
reformist policies. "Mediterranean Enlightenment" shows that
Livornese Jewish scholars engaged with Enlightenment ideals and
aspired to contribute to society at large without weakening the
boundaries of traditional Jewish life. By arguing that the
privileged status of Livorno Jewry had conservative rather than
liberalizing effects, it also challenges the notion that economic
utility facilitates Jewish integration, nuancing received wisdom
about processes of emancipation in Europe.
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