ISBN:
9789004222465
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 317 pages)
,
illustrations
Year of publication:
2012
Series Statement:
Studies in Jewish History and Culture v. 35
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries
Keywords:
Moscato, Judah ben Joseph Congresses
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Rabbis Biography
;
Congresses
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Jews Congresses Intellectual life 16th century
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Jews Congresses Intellectual life 17th century
Abstract:
Preliminary Material /Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto -- Judah Moscato. His Life and His Work Judah Moscato: /Gianfranco Miletto -- Principles of Jewish Skeptical Thought. The Case of Judah Moscato and Simone Luzzatto /Giuseppe Veltri -- Moscato as Eulogizer /Marc Saperstein -- On Kabbalah in R. Judah Moscato’s Qol Yehudah /Moshe Idel -- Amicitia and Hermeticism. Paratext as Key to Judah Moscato’s Nefuṣot Yehudah /Bernard Dov Cooperman -- Judah Moscato, Abraham Portaleone, and Biblical Incense in Late Renaissance Mantua /Andrew Berns -- Judah Moscato’s Sources and Hebrew Printing in the Sixteenth Century: /Adam Shear -- The Jewish intellectual World of Mantua in 16th–17th centuries The Gonzaga Archives of Mantua and Their Rearrangements Over the Centuries, along with an Overview of Archival Materials on Mantuan Jewry /Daniela Ferrari -- The Levi Dynasty: /Don Harrán -- Spatial Stories: /Dana E. Katz -- Saladin the Crusader, the Christian Haman, and the Off-key Priest: /Claudia Rosenzweig -- Some Unknown 16th-Century Documents about Abraham Yagel and a Possible Link to the Controversy about the “Holy Diana” in the Mantuan Synagogue /Daniel Jütte -- On Abraham’s Neck. The Editio Princeps of the Sefer Yeṣirah (Mantua 1562) and Its Context /Saverio Campanini -- The Italian Translation of the Psalms by Judah Sommo /Alessandro Guetta -- Savants and Scholars in Jewish Mantua: /Shlomo Simonsohn -- Bibliography /Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto -- Subject Index /Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto.
Abstract:
Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference, organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies at Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), and Mantua’s State Archives. It consists of contributions on Moscato and the intellectual world in Mantua during the 16th and 17th centuries
Note:
"Proceedings of an international conference, organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies at Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), and Mantua's State Archives"--ECIP data view
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-314) and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004222465
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