2007/04/30 by Asher Salah · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Historical and Literary Studies #Renaissance Literature and Culture #Historical and Literary Analyses
paper · doi:10.1163/ej.9789004156425.i-822
openalex publication_date 2007/04/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
This volume is a reference book on more than a thousand Jewish writers—rabbis, physicians and laymen—active in 18th-century Italy. Each author has a biographical notice, followed by a list of his printed works and manuscripts, their location in the major international judaica collections and a bibliography of the relevant secondary sources. The book is illustrated with more than forty portraits of authors and includes rich analytical and thematic indexes. This work is intended to be a fundamental instrument for scholars interested in the Jewish Italian Enlightenment. It allows us to address, from a sociological and quantitative perspective, questions such as: what did Italian Jews write about?, for whom?, where?, in which language?