Ethnicity and institution building among Jews in early modern Rome

The Cinquecento was marked by the emergence of expanded and more formalized structures of self-government in Italy's Jewish communities. It is from this century that we begin to have written capitoli (constitutional agreements) and pinkasim (record books).2 By the middle of the century, as Robe...

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Main Author: Cooperman, Bernard Dov 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2006]
In: AJS review
Year: 2006, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 119-145
Further subjects:B Jewish Culture
B Jewish refugees
B Popes
B Sephardic Jews
B Synagogues
B Jewish migration
B Jewish politics
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Summary:The Cinquecento was marked by the emergence of expanded and more formalized structures of self-government in Italy's Jewish communities. It is from this century that we begin to have written capitoli (constitutional agreements) and pinkasim (record books).2 By the middle of the century, as Robert Bonfil has demonstrated, the office of community-appointed rabbi had been created and regularized.3 Intense internecine struggles broke out for control over the new institutions, and contemporary rabbinic responsa attest to the slow and sometimes tortuous manner in which early modern Jews felt their way toward new working arrangements, procedures, and understandings.
ISSN:1475-4541
Contains:Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0364009406000055