This book represents a sample of the most penetrating Jewish movements.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jewish Culture and the Renaissance
New Forms of Hebrew Literary Execution: Rhetoric, Humanism, and the Jewish Sermon
Jewish Adaptation of Humanist Concepts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy
p. 45
Ars Rhetorica as Reflected in Some Jewish Figures of the Italian Renaissance
p. 63
Italian Jewish Preaching: An Overview
p. 85
The Jewish Encounter with Magic, Ancient Theology, and Neoplatonism
The Magical and Neoplatonic Interpretations of the Kabbalah in the Renaissance
p. 107
The Place of the Dialoghi d'amore in Contemporaneous Jewish Thought
p. 170
Jewish Historical Writing in the Sixteenth Century
Clio and the Jews: Reflections on Jewish Historiography in the Sixteenth Century
p. 191
How Golden Was the Age of the Renaissance in Jewish Historiography?
p. 219
Azariah de' Rossi and the Forgeries of Annius of Viterbo
p. 252
Sixteenth-Century Messianism and Kabbalah and Their Transformations in Italy
Messianic Expectations and Spiritualization of Religious Life in the Sixteenth Century
p. 283
Hope against Hope: Jewish and Christian Messianic Expectations in the Late Middle Ages
p. 299
Particularism and Universalism in Kabbalah, 1480-1650
p. 324
Major Currents in Italian Kabbalah between 1560 and 1660
p. 345
Jewish Culture in the Setting of the Ghetto
The Significance of the Ghetto in Shaping Jewish Society and Culture
From Geographical Realia to Historiographical Symbol: The Odyssey of the Word Ghetto
p. 373
The Consciousness of Closure: Roman Jewry and Its Ghet
p. 386
Change in the Cultural Patterns of a Jewish Society in Crisis: Italian Jewry at the Close of the Sixteenth Century
p. 401
Cultural Trends In the Age of the Ghetto
Leone da Modena's Riti: A Seventeenth-Century Plea for Social Toleration of Jews
p. 429
Tradition and Innovation in Jewish Music of the Later Renaissance
p. 474
Baroque Trends in Italian Hebrew Poetry as Reflected in an Unknown Genre
p. 502
The Impact of Science on Jewish Culture and Society in Venice
p. 519
The Eve of the Circumcision: A Chapter in the History of Jewish Nightlife
p. 554
Index
p. 589
About the Editor
p. 598
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