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Verlag: University of California Press. 01.03.1994., 1994
ISBN 10: 0520073509ISBN 13: 9780520073500
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Gut. XIII, 319 Seiten / p., s/w Abb. altersgemäß sehr guter Zustand / very good condition for age - With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil re-creates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation." There was neither as much separation nor as much openness between Jewish society and the broader Christian society as those terms would suggest, he says. What we see instead is that Italian Jews were no more and no less people of their times than were Italian Christians, and they perceived their Jewish identity through constant interplay - on whatever terms - with the Other. -- Questioning the Italians presumed capacity for tolerance and civility, Bonfil points out that the Jews were frequently uprooted and persecuted, and where stable communities did grow up, it was because the hostility of the Christian population had somehow been overcome. After the ghetto was imposed in Venice, Rome, and other Italian cities, Jewish settlement became more concentrated. Bonfil claims that the ghetto experience did more to intensify Jewish self-perception in early modern Europe than did the supposed acculturation of the Renaissance. Ghetto living, paradoxically, opened and transformed Jewish culture, separating the sacred from the secular and hastening secularization and modernization. Somewhat surprisingly, Bonfil shows that the rabbis, far from being the bulwarks of traditional culture, were the principal representatives of the general culture within Jewish spaces. -- This vividly detailed picture of the structures of education, communal organization, economic activity, religious practice, and everyday life reveals in the Italian Jews a sensitivity and self-awareness that took into account every aspect of the larger society. Students of Italian, Renaissance, and Jewish history, and anyone interested in the development of minority society and identity, will welcome Bonfil s inside view of a culture flourishing under stress. ISBN 9780520073500 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630 15,2 x 2,2 x 22,9 cm, Halbleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Half Cloth with dust jacket.
Verlag: University of California Press 1994-04-12, Berkeley, 1994
ISBN 10: 0520073509ISBN 13: 9780520073500
Anbieter: Blackwell's, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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hardback. Zustand: New. Language: ENG.