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Forced Baptisms

        Marina Caffiero, Forced Baptisms: Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome, University of California Press, 2011 This book makes use of newly available archival…

Prisoners of Hope

Stuart Hughes, Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974, Harvard University Press, 1996 The years between 1924 and 1974 may indeed have been a silver age…

Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism

        Arnaldo Momigliano, Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism, University Of Chicago Press, 1994 Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-87) was one of the most distinguished twentieth-century scholars of the…

Treasures from Rome

        Daniela Di Castro, Treasures of the Jewish Museum of Rome : Guide to the Museum and Its Collection, Araldo De Luca, 2011 A beautifully illustrated and…

Between Scylla and Charybdis

        Shlomo Simonsohn, Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Jews In Sicily, Brill, 2011 The history of the Jews in Sicily covers a period of over a thousand…

Kabbalah in Italy: 1280-1510

        Moshe Idel, Kabbalah in Italy: 1280-1510, Yale University Press, 2011 This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one…