Jewish life in Renaissance Italy

Summary: With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature.

Record details

ISBN: 9781282356412
ISBN: 1282356410
ISBN: 0520073509 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780585081328 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0585081328 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0520910990 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780520910997 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 319 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-user. Terms of use - Multi-User. CatMonthString:jun.14 CatMonthString:february.14
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	pt. 1. Structures of settlement and the economy -- The laws of topodemographic distribution -- Trades and professions -- pt. 2. Structures of culture and society -- The problem of sociocultural identity: some preliminary observations -- Education and the rabbinical ideal -- Jewish culture hebraists, and the role of the Kabbalah -- Community institutions -- pt. 3. Structures of mentality -- Time and space -- Sounds and silence -- Colors, tastes, and odors -- The days of life -- Death as the mirror of life.
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Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.