Acculturation and its discontents
Subtitle: the Italian Jewish experience between exclusion and inclusion
By: edited by David N. Myers ... [et al.].
Contributors: Myers, David N.; University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.; William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
Series: UCLA Center / Clark studies -- 10; UCLA Clark Memorial Library series -- 10
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Toronto]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780802098511
Subjects: Jews -- Italy -- History; Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Italy; Jews -- Italy -- Social conditions; Italy -- Ethnic relations
Other titles: Italian Jewish experience between exclusion and inclusion; Acculturation & its discontents
Notes: "In association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How 'other' really was the Jewish other? The evidence from Venice / Benjamin Ravid; title: Emotion and acculturation: masquerading emotion in the Roman ghetto / Kenneth Stow; title: Between exclusion and inclusion: Jews as portrayed in Italian music from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries / Don Harrán; title: Can fundamentalism be modern? The case of Avraham Portaleone (1542-1612) / Alessandro Guetta; title: Jewish women, marriage law, and emancipation: the civil divorce of Rachele Morschene in late eighteenth-century Trieste / Lois C. Dubin; title: The Jews of Italy in the Triennio Giacobino, 1796-1799 / Geoffrey Symcox; title: Singing modernity: synagogue music in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy / Edwin Seroussi; title: 'Their true tongue': history, memory, language, and the Jews of Italy / Simon Levis Sullam; title: Growing up Jewish in Ferrara: the fiction of Giorgio Bassani / Guido Fink.