The Most Tenacious of Minorities
The Jews of Italy
Published on 14. May 2013
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-61811-244-6 (ISBN)
Description
Arriving in ancient Rome over 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity throughout the millennia. This book traces their recreation of community, focusing on their economic, intellectual, and social lives, as they moved from south to north. Over the centuries, the localised Italian groups were reinforced with the arrival of German, Provencal, Sephardic, and most recently Ashkenazi and Middle Eastern Jews. Surviving religious persecution, ghetto-isation, and the Holocaust, the Jews contributed to Italian society when they could. Supplemented by maps, illustrations, sidebars, and primary sources, the book is a scholarly yet popular overview of a minority group that is proudly Italian and equally proud to be Jewish.
Reviews / Votes
A thoroughly researched and engagingly written presentation. -- Book News, Inc. "Few Jewish communities in the Diaspora are as old as the one in Italy, and that's one of the reasons Reguer's account is well worth reading. She takes us on a journey, full of promise, peril and renewal, that begins during the Roman empire and ends in present-day Italy. It's quite a trip." -- Sheldon Kirshner, The Times of Israel, 5 Feb 2017 * The Times of Israel * "Reguer tells her 2,000-year-old story with clarity and ease. Her organization is excellent. She is modest. She does not get bogged down in minutia to display her erudition, or suggest she has discovered information that is new to Italian Jewish scholarship. We are fortunate to have this readable book."-Andree Aelion Brooks, Yale University, Sephardic Horizons "This well written, clear, insightful... book is highly recommended as an introduction and general overview to courses on the history of Jews in Italy." - Dr. David B Levy, Touro College, Jewish Journal of Sociology
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Brighton
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61811-244-6 (9781618112446)
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Person
Sara Reguer is chair of the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA. 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).