Title Jewish life in early modern Rome : challenge, conversion, and private life / Kenneth Stow

Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Variorum collected studies series ; CS879 Collected studies ; CS879. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Dedication; PART 1: THE PAPAL CHALLENGE; I The burning of the Talmud in 1553, in the light of sixteenth century Catholic attitudes toward the Talmud (reset and updated); II The consciousness of closure: Roman Jewry and its ghet; III Expulsion Italian style: the case of Lucio Ferraris; IV The good of the church, the good of the state: the Popes and Jewish money; PART 2: IN SEARCH OF CONVERSION; V Church, conversion, and tradition: the problem of Jewish conversion in sixteenth century Italy VI A tale of uncertainties: converts in the Roman ghettoVII Neofiti and their families: or, perhaps, the good of the state; VIII Delitto e castigo nello stato della chiesa: gli ebrei nelle carceri romane dal 1572 al 1659; PART 3: THE JEWS OF ROME; IX Prossimità o distanza: etnicità , sefarditi e assenza di conflitti etnici nella Roma del sedicesimo secolo; X Ethnic rivalry or melting pot: The â#x80;#x9C;edotâ#x80;#x9D; in the Roman ghetto; XI Ethnic amalgamation, like it or not: inheritance in early modern Jewish Rome; XII Abramo ben Aron Scazzocchio: another kind of rabbi XIII The knotty problem of Shem Tov Soporto: male honor, marital initiation, and disciplinary structures in mid-sixteenth century Jewish Rome (in memory of Giuseppe Sermoneta)XIV The new fashioned from the old: parallels in public and learned memory and practice in sixteenth-century Jewish Rome; XV Corporate double talk: Kehillat Kodesh and Universitas in the Roman Jewish sixteenth century environment; XVI Marriages are made in heaven: marriage and the individual in the Roman Jewish ghetto; XVII Writing in Hebrew, thinking in Italian Summary "The essays in this second volume by Kenneth Stow explore the fate of Jews living in Rome, directly under the eye of the Pope. Most Roman Jews were not immigrants; some had been there before the time of Christ. Nor were they cultural strangers. They spoke (Roman) Italian, ate and dressed as did other Romans, and their marital practices reflected Roman noble usage. Rome's Jews were called cives, but unequal ones, and to resolve this anomaly, Paul IV closed them within ghetto walls in 1555; the rest of Europe would resolve this crux in the late eighteenth century, through civil Emancipation. In its essence, the ghetto was a limbo, from which only conversion, promoted through "disciplining" par excellence, offered an exit. Nonetheless, though increasingly impoverished, Rome's Jews preserved culture and reinforced family life, even many women's rights. A system of consensual arbitration enabled a modicum of self-governance. Yet Rome's Jews also came to realize that they had been expelled into the ghetto: nostro ghet, a document of divorce, as they called it. There they would remain, segregated, so long as they remained Jews. Such are the themes that the author examines in these essays."--Provided by publisher Notes Originally published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 01, 2018) Subject Catholic Church -- Relations -- Judaism. SUBJECT Catholic Church fast Subject Jews -- Italy -- Rome -- History Jews -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 16th century Judaism -- Relations -- Catholic Church. Popes -- Temporal power. Jewish converts from Christianity -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 16th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Ethnic relations Interfaith relations Jewish converts from Christianity Jews Judaism Popes -- Temporal power SUBJECT Rome (Italy) -- Ethnic relations Subject Italy -- Rome Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781351154994 1351154990 9781351155007 1351155008 9781351154970 1351154974

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