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Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish intellectual world of Mantua in 16th-17th century /

Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish intellectual world of Mantua in 16th-17th century / edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto. - 1 online resource (xiv, 317 pages) : illustrations. - Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; v. 35 . - Studies in Jewish History and Culture 35. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223257. .

"Proceedings of an international conference, organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies at Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), and Mantua's State Archives"--ECIP data view.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-314) and index.

Preliminary Material / Judah Moscato. His Life and His Work Judah Moscato: / Principles of Jewish Skeptical Thought. The Case of Judah Moscato and Simone Luzzatto / Moscato as Eulogizer / On Kabbalah in R. Judah Moscato’s Qol Yehudah / Amicitia and Hermeticism. Paratext as Key to Judah Moscato’s Nefuṣot Yehudah / Judah Moscato, Abraham Portaleone, and Biblical Incense in Late Renaissance Mantua / Judah Moscato’s Sources and Hebrew Printing in the Sixteenth Century: / The Jewish intellectual World of Mantua in 16th–17th centuries The Gonzaga Archives of Mantua and Their Rearrangements Over the Centuries, along with an Overview of Archival Materials on Mantuan Jewry / The Levi Dynasty: / Spatial Stories: / Saladin the Crusader, the Christian Haman, and the Off-key Priest: / Some Unknown 16th-Century Documents about Abraham Yagel and a Possible Link to the Controversy about the “Holy Diana” in the Mantuan Synagogue / On Abraham’s Neck. The Editio Princeps of the Sefer Yeṣirah (Mantua 1562) and Its Context / The Italian Translation of the Psalms by Judah Sommo / Savants and Scholars in Jewish Mantua: / Bibliography / Subject Index / Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto -- Gianfranco Miletto -- Giuseppe Veltri -- Marc Saperstein -- Moshe Idel -- Bernard Dov Cooperman -- Andrew Berns -- Adam Shear -- Daniela Ferrari -- Don Harrán -- Dana E. Katz -- Claudia Rosenzweig -- Daniel Jütte -- Saverio Campanini -- Alessandro Guetta -- Shlomo Simonsohn -- Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto -- Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto.

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Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference, organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies at Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), and Mantua’s State Archives. It consists of contributions on Moscato and the intellectual world in Mantua during the 16th and 17th centuries.

9789004222465

10.1163/9789004222465 DOI

2011043270


Moscato, Judah ben Joseph, ca. 1530-ca. 1593 --Congresses.


Rabbis--Italy--Mantua--Biography--Congresses.
Jews--Intellectual life--Italy--Mantua--16th century--Congresses.
Jews--Intellectual life--Italy--Mantua--17th century--Congresses.

BM755.M59 / R33 2012

296.092 B