Women, Jews, and Venetians

Santa Cruz, CA, USA.  22 mag - 24 mag, 2011. Humanities and Social Science Facility.  “L’Italie, Laboratoire de la modernite juive,” — Workshop of Jewish Modernity –  a group of scholars recently characterized Venice and the Ghetto and thereby focused discussion on how this laboratory shaped Jewish modernity.  Carrying forward a recently emerging scholarly view about early modern Jewish communities, these essays emphasize the interaction of the Jews in the Ghetto with the larger Venetian populace and polity, reminding us that the Ghetto came ...