The Jews of early modern Venice
By: edited by Robert C. Davis and Benjamin Ravid
Contributors: Davis, Robert C. 1948-; Ravid, Benjamin C. I
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Jews -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century; Jews -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 17th century; Jews -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 18th century; Jews -- Italy -- Venice -- Intellectual life; Venice (Italy) -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-301) and index
Table of contents: title: The Venetian government and the Jews / Benjamin Ravid; title: The "City of the Jews" / Donatella Calabi; title: Jewish banks and Monti di Pietá / Brian Pullan; title: Jews in international trade: the emergence of the Levantines and Ponentines / Benjamin Arbel; title: Jews, Crypto-Jews, and the Inquisition / Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini; title: The ghetto republic / David J. Malkiel; title: Jewish women and family life, inside and outside the ghetto / Howard Tzvi Adelman; title: a cultural profile / Robert Bonfil; title: Medicine and scientific thought: the world of Tobias Cohen / David B. Ruderman; title: Jewish musical culture: Leon Modena / Don Harrán; title: Processions, piety, and Jewish confraternities / Elliott Horowitz