Theater of Acculturation
Subtitle: The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780295980256
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Jewish studies; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History Of Jews; Social Stratification; History - General History; Sociology; Italy; Europe - Italy; Jewish - General; Sociology - General; 16th century; Ethnic relations; History; Jews; Rome; Rome (Italy)
Description: "Generations of tourists visiting Rome have ventured into the small section between the Tiber River and the Capitoline Hill whose narrow, dark streets lead to the charming Fountain of the Tortoises, the brooding mass of the Palazzo Cenci, and some of the best restaurants in the city. This was the site of the Ghetto, within whose walls the Jews of Rome were compelled to live from 1555 until 1870.

In Theater of Acculturation, Kenneth Stow, leading authority on Italian Jews, probes Jewish life in Rome in the early years of the Ghetto."--BOOK JACKET.