Jews and State Building

This new book presented at Bookhouse was edited by Bernard Dov Cooperman, Serena Di Nepi, and Germano Maifreda. This volume aims to shed new light on the history of the Jews in Italy between the early modern period and the emergence of a unified Italian state, explicitly placing Jews within the history of the state-building process. It seeks to reconsider Jewish history systematically by stressing the relation of Jews and the state and to trace how Jews and their communities were reshaped in the early modern period.