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Giuntina [Published 2001]. Soft cover, 92 pp. Text in English, translated from original in Italian by Ann Curiel. Contents Preface; The Jews in from when?; The loan banks; Jewish culture and the Florentine Renaissance; The Ghetto; The period of the Counter-Reformation. The House of the Catechumens; The reign of Leopold and the French period; The economic relations; Participation in the Risorgimento; Education and aid societies; A few words on the contemporary period; Demographic note; Essential chronology;Map of places of Jewish interest. [From back cover] This panorama of the history of the Jews of Florence, though brief, touches on all its essential aspects. It goes from the first appearance of Jews in Florence in the establishment of a true community in the 15th century and from the fruitful, though complex, relationship between the Florentine Renaissance and Jewish culture in the very difficult 200-year-long ghetto experience that included repeated attempts to convert as many Jews as possible in the prevailing religious faith. Progressing from the first temporary emancipation, resulting from Leopold's reforms and even more from the French Revolution, it examines the second and longer lasting affirmation of liberty and equal rights won through the Jews' participation in the unification of Italy (Risorgimento). After examining the contribution that the Jews mad as Italian citizens to the development of every area of cultural field, this work illustrates the unforeseeable emanation of the infamous racial laws in 1938. From the tragic period of 1943-44, in which the Jews of Florence, including many of foreign origin, were overwhelmed by the Shoah, it covers the history of the last fifty years, lived in the shadow ...
Publication Data:
Author(s): Roberto G. Salvadori
Publisher: Casa Editrice Giuntina
Pages: 92
Language: en
Category: History
Genre: History, Social Science, Jewish Studies
ISBN: 8880571249
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