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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 sources to reexamine…

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 classics and of…

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 well documented guide…

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 years, from Antiquity…

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 of the world’s foremost…