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Acculturation and Its Discontents : The Italian Jewish Experience Between Exclusion and Inclusion.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UCLA Clark Memorial Library SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (237 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442687318
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Acculturation and Its DiscontentsDDC classification:
  • 945.00492/4
LOC classification:
  • DS135.I8 A238 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: RENAISSANCE REVERBERATIONS -- 1 How 'Other' Really Was the Jewish Other? The Evidence from Venice -- 2 Emotion and Acculturation: Masquerading Emotion in the Roman Ghetto -- 3 Between Exclusion and Inclusion: Jews as Portrayed in Italian Music from the Late Fifteenth to the Early Seventeenth Centuries -- 4 Can Fundamentalism Be Modern? The Case of Avraham Portaleone (1542-1612) -- PART II: INTO MODERNITY -- 5 Jewish Women, Marriage Law, and Emancipation: The Civil Divorce of Rachele Morschene in Late Eighteenth-Century Trieste -- 6 The Jews of Italy in the Triennio Giacobino, 1796-1799 -- 7 Singing Modernity: Synagogue Music in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Italy -- 8 'Their True Tongue': History, Memory, Language, and the Jews of Italy -- 9 Growing Up Jewish in Ferrara: The Fiction of Giorgio Bassani -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontentsassembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.
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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: RENAISSANCE REVERBERATIONS -- 1 How 'Other' Really Was the Jewish Other? The Evidence from Venice -- 2 Emotion and Acculturation: Masquerading Emotion in the Roman Ghetto -- 3 Between Exclusion and Inclusion: Jews as Portrayed in Italian Music from the Late Fifteenth to the Early Seventeenth Centuries -- 4 Can Fundamentalism Be Modern? The Case of Avraham Portaleone (1542-1612) -- PART II: INTO MODERNITY -- 5 Jewish Women, Marriage Law, and Emancipation: The Civil Divorce of Rachele Morschene in Late Eighteenth-Century Trieste -- 6 The Jews of Italy in the Triennio Giacobino, 1796-1799 -- 7 Singing Modernity: Synagogue Music in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Italy -- 8 'Their True Tongue': History, Memory, Language, and the Jews of Italy -- 9 Growing Up Jewish in Ferrara: The Fiction of Giorgio Bassani -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontentsassembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.

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