The Jews of Early Modern Venice
[The Jews of Early Modern Venice] is a particularly good study of how a minority group can fit into a general culture, yet retain its identity and develop new forms of culture.(Donald B. EpsteinHistory: Reviews of News Books)The Jews of Early Modern Veniceis a rich anthology of essays on ethinicity and identity, commerce and culture, and other matters relating to a time well before the great wooden gates of the ghetto of Venice were taken down.(L. R. N. AshleyBibliotheque d'Humanism et Renaissance)[This volume] contributes to an enhanced understanding of the varied social groups, the traditions of faith and thought, and the art produced in the Venetian ghetto... These essays demonstrate the remarkable cultural and religious complexity of Jewish life in early modern Venice.(Stephen D. BeninReligious Studies Review)We have reason to welcome this collection of essays on the Jews of Venice... [The Jews of Early Modern Venice] offers a unified portrait that poionts the way toward understanding modes of acculturation: how Jews might be insiders and outsiders at the same time.(Kenneth StowRenaissance Quarterly)This unusually coherent collection of essays on the theme of Jewish community life in early modern Venice deserves a wide readership.(John K. BrackettH-Net Reviews)The essays in this fine volume are the result of years of intensive research of a diverse collection of source materials by a cadre of some of the most renowned scholars in numerous fields within the history of early modern Venice and early modern Judaism... The volume eloquently contextualizes the history and development of Jewish settlement in Venice and the role of the Jews in the broader city and its territories.(Dean Phillip BellHistorian)A volume of substantial, scholarly essays that is without parallel in its field.The Jews of Early Modern Veniceis an encyclopedic work: between two covers the reader will find sound, comprehensive treatments of all aspects of the Jewish experience in Venice.(Benjamin Kohl)