Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation

Federica Francesconi

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2021

Invisible Enlighteners

The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation

Federica Francesconi

In the series Jewish Culture and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299625

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In Invisible Enlighteners, Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Their sociocultural transformation and legal and political integration evolved through a dialogue between their Italian and Jewish identities.

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Federica Francesconi is on the faculty of History and is the Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

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"In this meticulously researched book, Federica Francesconi focuses on the mercantile Jewish elites of Modena to complicate our understanding of the modernity and integration of Jews in European society, a subject that has for too long been dominated in historiography by the study of the German Jewish context."—Magda Teter, Fordham University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Note on Spelling, Translations, and Currency Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Map Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 A Network of Jewish Families in the Early Modern Period The Road Toward Ghettoization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Chapter 2 Jewish Leaders, Their Circles, and Their Books Before the Inquisition A Parallel Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Chapter 3 The Jewish Household Family Networks, Social Control, and Gendered Spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Chapter 4 The “Invisible” Wealth of Silver The Journey of the Formigginis from the Ghetto to the Ducal Court Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter 5 Jewish Female Agency in the Ghetto Mercantile Elite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 6 The Jewish Urban Geography of the Ghetto and Beyond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Chapter 7 Moisè Formiggini Before Napoleon Two Steps Toward Emancipation and One Step Back Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
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Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 400
Illustrations
- Other: 10 halftones, 5 line art
Keywords: History; Religion; Jewish Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies

eBook

Published: June 4, 2021
ISBN: 9780812299625