Cultural Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 081223779X ISBN 13 : 9780812237795

Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004

Synopsis

Focusing on an epoch of spectacular demographic, political, economic, and cultural changes for European Jewry, Cultural Intermediaries chronicles the lives and thinking of ten Jewish intellectuals of the Renaissance, nine of them from Italy and one a Portuguese exile who settled in the Ottoman empire after a long sojourn in Italy. David B. Ruderman, Giuseppe Veltri, and the other contributors to this volume detail how, in the relative openness of cultural exchange encountered in such intellectual centers as Florence, Mantua, Pisa, Naples, Ferrara, and Salonika, these Jewish savants sought to enlarge their cultural horizons, to correlate the teachings of their own tradition with those outside it, and to rethink the meaning of their religious and ethnic identities within the intellectual and religious categories common to European civilization as a whole.

The engaging intellectual profiles created especially for this volume by scholars from Israel, North America, and Europe represent an important rereading and reinterpretation of early modern Jewish culture and society and its broader European intellectual contexts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David B. Ruderman is Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key and Jewish Discovery and Scientific Thought in Early Modern Europe. Giuseppe Veltri is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and Director of the Leopold Zunz Centre for the Study of European Judaism. He is author of Juden in der Renaissance and Gegenwart der Tradition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081223779X
• ISBN 13: 9780812237795
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Ruderman David B., Veltri Giuseppe
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