The Jews of early modern Venice / edited by Robert C. Davis and Benjamin Ravid.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Davis, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1948-
Ravid, Benjamin C. I.
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
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.
Physical Description:xix, 314 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The Venetian government and the Jews / Benjamin Ravid
  • The "City of the Jews" / Donatella Calabi
  • Jewish banks and Monti di Pietá / Brian Pullan
  • Jews in international trade: the emergence of the Levantines and Ponentines / Benjamin Arbel
  • Jews, Crypto-Jews, and the Inquisition / Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini
  • The ghetto republic / David J. Malkiel
  • Jewish women and family life, inside and outside the ghetto / Howard Tzvi Adelman
  • a cultural profile / Robert Bonfil
  • Medicine and scientific thought: the world of Tobias Cohen / David B. Ruderman
  • Jewish musical culture: Leon Modena / Don Harrán
  • Processions, piety, and Jewish confraternities / Elliott Horowitz.