Cultural intermediaries
Subtitle: Jewish intellectuals in early modern Italy
By: edited by David B. Ruderman and Giuseppe Veltri
Contributors: Ruderman, David B; Veltri, Giuseppe
Series: Jewish culture and contexts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Jews -- Italy -- Intellectual life -- 16th century -- Congresses; Jews -- Italy -- Intellectual life -- 17th century -- Congresses; Jewish scholars -- Italy -- Congresses; Jewish learning and scholarship -- Italy -- History -- Congresses; Jews -- Italy -- Social conditions -- Congresses; Italy -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-286) and index
Table of contents: title: Biography and autobiography in Yohanan Almemanno's literary perception / Fabrizio Lelli; title: Elijah Delmdigo: an archetype of the Halakhic man? / Harvey Hames; title: Philo and Sophia: Leone Ebreo's concept of Jewish philosophy / Giuseppe Veltri; title: Joseph ha-Kohen, Paolo Giovio, and sixteenth-century historiography / Martin Jacobs; title: Religious life and Jewish erudition in Pisa: Yehiel Nissim da Pisa and the crisis of Aristotelianism / Alessandro Guetta; title: The beautiful soul: Azariah de' Rossi's search for truth / Joanna Weinberg; title: The teaching program of David ben Abraham and his son Abraham Provenzali in its historical-cultural context / Gianfranco Miletto; title: Judah Moscato's scholarly self-image and the question of Jewish humanism / Adam Shear; title: As framed, so perceived: Salamone Rossi Ebero, late Renaissance musician / Don Harrán; title: Amatus Lusitanus and the location of sixteenth-century cultures / Eleazar Gutwirth; title: Italy in Safed, Safed in Italy: toward an interactive history of sixteenth-century Kabbalah / Moshe Idel; title: A bibliography of Jewish cultural history in the early modern period / Giuseppe Veltri