RT Book T1 The Jews in Italy: their contribution to the development and diffusion of Jewish heritage T2 Jewish Latin American studies A2 Perani, Mauro A2 Harel, Yaron LA English LA Hebrew PP Boston PB Academic Studies Press YR 2019 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1734648740 AB Based on lectures given at the conference ""The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage"", this collection offers the reader a wide range of subjects reflecting various scholarly perspectives such as history; Christian-Jewish relations; Kabbalah; commentary on the Bible and Talmud; language, grammar, and translation; literature; philosophy; gastronomy; art; culture; folklore; and education AB Roman attitudes to Jews and Judaism in the first century BCE : between Hellenistic traditions and local realities / Miriam Ben Zeev -- The oldest complete extant Sefer Torah rediscovered at the Bologna University Library : codicological, textual, and paleographic features of an ancient eastern tradition / Mauro Perani -- Palestinian and Babylonian traditions in Italy at the outset of the Middle Ages : the Yerushalmi in the writings of R. Isaiah di Trani (the Rid) / Yaron Silverstein -- Abraham de Balmes's Miqneh Abram : an adaptation of modistic concepts by a Hebrew grammarian of the Renaissance / Dror Ben-Arié -- The anonymous Hebrew translation of Giordano Ruffo's De medicina equorum and its language / Michael Ryzhik -- Between the Book of Jossipon and the Book of Jasher / Carmela Saranga -- Italian Jewry and Kabbalistic rites / Moshe Hallamish -- Ladino translations from Italy : the Bible, Pirke Avot, the Passover Haggadah, and the Siddur / Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald -- The Jews of France and Italy during the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Shimon Schwarzfuchs -- Torah and nature in the writings of some Italian Jewish thinkers of the Renaissance / Miguel Antonio Beltrán Munar -- Prenuptial agreements in Ketubot from Italy / Yoel Shilo -- Jewish Ashkenazi gastronomy in northern Italy in the early modern period : the testimony of the book Mitzvot Hanashim / Zahava Weishouse -- The depiction of Jesus's Circumcision and Presentation in the Temple in early modern paintings in Venice : some questions on Jesus's identity / Maria Portmann -- Freemasonry and Saint-Simonism as carriers of Enlightenment values in David Levi's Weltanschauung / Alessandro Grazi -- The unique characteristics of Dybbuk exorcisms in Rabbinic documents from eighteenth-century Italy / Yaniv Goldberg -- Rabbinic ties between Italy and Aleppo in the eighteenth century / Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky -- Jewish solidarity : the actions and support of the union of Italian Israelite communities for the Jews of Libya and Ethiopia in the 1930s / Yitzhak Mualem -- The dispute between Italy and France in Tunisia : the role of language and the position of Italian Jewry / Filippo Petrucci -- Jews as promoters of Italian civilization in Libya / Rachel Simon -- The relations of the Holy See with the Jewish people after the 1993 fundamental agreement between the Holy See and the state of Israel : divergence between the interreligious dialogue with the Jews of Rome and the diplomatic dialogue with Israel / Eliav Taub -- Primo Levi : chemist/writer, Italian/Jew / Smadar Shiffman -- Jewish educational proposals in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Florence / Silvia Guetta. NO "In September 2011, a major congress was convened at the Bologna University Department of Cultural Heritage ... All twenty-two articles in the current volume are based on lectures given at the conference"--Preface NO Includes bibliographical references and index CN DS135.I8 SN 9781644690260 K1 Jews : Italy : History : Congresses K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Jewish Studies K1 Jews K1 Conference papers and proceedings K1 History K1 Italy