The Most Tenacious of Minorities (eBook)

The Jews of Italy

Sara Reguer (Autor)

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2013
240 Seiten
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-61811-245-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Since arriving in Rome more than 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity over millennia. This book traces the foundations of their community, focusing on their economic, intellectual, and social lives as they moved between northern and southern Italy. Over the centuries these localized Italian groups were reinforced with the arrival of German, Provencal, Sephardic, and—most recently—Ashkenazi and Middle Eastern Jews. Surviving religious persecution, ghetto-ization, and the Holocaust, the Jews contributed to Italian society when they could. Supplemented by maps, illustrations, sidebars, and primary sources, this book is a scholarly yet popular overview of a minority group that is proud to be Italian and equally proud to be Jewish.

Autor

Sara Reguer (PhD Columbia University) is chair of the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is the co-editor and co-author of The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times (2003, with Reeva Simon and Michael Laskier).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2013
• Verlagsort: Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 21st Century • Brooklyn College • Diaspora • Holocaust Italy • Italian Jewish book • jewish ghetto • Jewish Italy • Jewish resiliency • Judaic Studies • Roman Empire book
• ISBN-10: 1-61811-245-7 / 1618112457
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61811-245-3 / 9781618112453