Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries
Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries [electronic resource] /
edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto.
- Leiden : BRILL, 2012.
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
Preface; I. Judah Moscato. His Life and His Work; 1. Judah Moscato: Biographical Data and Writings; 2. Principles of Jewish Skeptical Thought. The Case of Judah Moscato and Simone Luzzatto; 3. Moscato as Eulogizer; 4. On Kabbalah in R. Judah Moscato's Qol Yehudah; 5. Amicitia and Hermeticism. Paratext as Key to Judah Moscato's Nefusot Yehudah; 6. Judah Moscato, Abraham Portaleone, and Biblical Incense in Late Renaissance Mantua; 7. Judah Moscato's Sources and Hebrew Printing in the Sixteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey. II. The Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in 16th-17th Centuries8. The Gonzaga Archives of Mantua and Their Rearrangements Over the Centuries, along with an Overview of Archival Materials on Mantuan Jewry; 9. The Levi Dynasty: Three Generations of Jewish Musicians in Sixteenth-Century Mantua; 10. Spatial Stories: Mantua and the Painted Jew; 11. Saladin the Crusader, the Christian Haman, and the Off-key Priest: Some Reflections on Christians and Christianity in Yiddish Literary Texts from the Italian Renaissance. 12. Some Unknown 16th-Century Documents about Abraham Yagel and a Possible Link to the Controversy about the "Holy Diana" in the Mantuan Synagogue13. On Abraham's Neck. The Editio Princeps of the Sefer Yesirah (Mantua 1562) and Its Context; 14. The Italian Translation of the Psalms by Judah Sommo; 15. Savants and Scholars in Jewish Mantua: A Reassessment; Bibliography; Subject Index.
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 in Mantua and consists of contributions on Moscato and his intellectual world.
9789004222465 (electronic bk.) 9004222464 (electronic bk.)
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.
Jews--Mantua--Intellectual life--Italy--16th century--Congresses.
Moscato, Judah ben Joseph, ca. 1530-ca. 1593--Congresses.
Moscato, Judah ben Joseph, ca. 1530-ca. 1593.
Rabbis--Mantua--Biography--Italy--Congresses.
RELIGION / Judaism / History
Electronic books.
BM755.M59
296.092
Preface; I. Judah Moscato. His Life and His Work; 1. Judah Moscato: Biographical Data and Writings; 2. Principles of Jewish Skeptical Thought. The Case of Judah Moscato and Simone Luzzatto; 3. Moscato as Eulogizer; 4. On Kabbalah in R. Judah Moscato's Qol Yehudah; 5. Amicitia and Hermeticism. Paratext as Key to Judah Moscato's Nefusot Yehudah; 6. Judah Moscato, Abraham Portaleone, and Biblical Incense in Late Renaissance Mantua; 7. Judah Moscato's Sources and Hebrew Printing in the Sixteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey. II. The Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in 16th-17th Centuries8. The Gonzaga Archives of Mantua and Their Rearrangements Over the Centuries, along with an Overview of Archival Materials on Mantuan Jewry; 9. The Levi Dynasty: Three Generations of Jewish Musicians in Sixteenth-Century Mantua; 10. Spatial Stories: Mantua and the Painted Jew; 11. Saladin the Crusader, the Christian Haman, and the Off-key Priest: Some Reflections on Christians and Christianity in Yiddish Literary Texts from the Italian Renaissance. 12. Some Unknown 16th-Century Documents about Abraham Yagel and a Possible Link to the Controversy about the "Holy Diana" in the Mantuan Synagogue13. On Abraham's Neck. The Editio Princeps of the Sefer Yesirah (Mantua 1562) and Its Context; 14. The Italian Translation of the Psalms by Judah Sommo; 15. Savants and Scholars in Jewish Mantua: A Reassessment; Bibliography; Subject Index.
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 in Mantua and consists of contributions on Moscato and his intellectual world.
9789004222465 (electronic bk.) 9004222464 (electronic bk.)
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.
Jews--Mantua--Intellectual life--Italy--16th century--Congresses.
Moscato, Judah ben Joseph, ca. 1530-ca. 1593--Congresses.
Moscato, Judah ben Joseph, ca. 1530-ca. 1593.
Rabbis--Mantua--Biography--Italy--Congresses.
RELIGION / Judaism / History
Electronic books.
BM755.M59
296.092
