The Jews in Umbria, Volume 3 (1484-1736)
Biographical note
Ariel Toaff is Professor of Medieval Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). Currently he is Visiting Professor of Jewish history at Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome.
Readership
Students and specialists of medieval Jewish history.
Reviews
'In all, Professor Toaff has offered an important collection of archival documents, most given in short English summaries, but also a significant number offered untranslated and in full, which will assist any scholar attempting to gain greater insight into the history of European Jewry in the early modern period...this volume, like the ones that have preceded it, is a superb accomplishment and a significant scholarly contribution.'
Dean Phillip Bell, Sixteenth Century Journal, 1996.
Dean Phillip Bell, Sixteenth Century Journal, 1996.
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This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Calabria from the end of the fourth century, where the first archaeological evidence of their presence appears, to 1541.
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This collection of over twenty essays brings together scholars from three continents to discuss the early synagogue. It addresses the questions of: When and where did the synagogue originate? What was its early distribution? What was its role in Judaism?
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Against the scholarly consensus that assumes early Christians were involved in a rivalry for converts with contemporary Jews, this book shows that the target of patristic writers was rather a symbolic Judaism, and their aim was to define theologically the young church's identity.
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Illustrates the political and socio-economic history of the Jewish community in Umbria from the second half of the thirteenth century, when Jewish settlement in the region became permanent and continuous, to the expulsion of the Jews in 1569 by decree of Pope Pius V.
€95.00$123.00
This book discusses the economics of the Talmud in the light of modern economics. Its focus is on the intricate debates, statements and principles that were forged by the great minds of the Talmudic Rabbis. This ancient storehouse of learning includes a wealth of economic knowledge of modern ...
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