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Cover 1 About the pagination of this eBook 2 Half Title 5 Title 7 Copyright 8 Contents 9 Introduction 13 Acknowledgements 17 Dedication 18 PART 1: THE PAPAL CHALLENGE 19 I The burning of the Talmud in 1553, in the light of sixteenth century Catholic attitudes toward the Talmud (reset and updated) 19 II The consciousness of closure: Roman Jewry and its ghet 44 III Expulsion Italian style: the case of Lucio Ferraris 59 IV The good of the church, the good of the state: the Popes and Jewish money 73 PART 2: IN SEARCH OF CONVERSION 89 V Church, conversion, and tradition: the problem of Jewish conversion in sixteenth century Italy 89 VI A tale of uncertainties: converts in the Roman ghetto 99 VII Neofiti and their families: or, perhaps, the good of the state 125 VIII Delitto e castigo nello stato della chiesa: gli ebrei nelle carceri romane dal 1572 al 1659 135 PART 3: THE JEWS OF ROME 155 IX Prossimità o distanza: etnicità, sefarditi e assenza di conflitti etnici nella Roma del sedicesimo secolo 155 X Ethnic rivalry or melting pot: The “edot” in the Roman ghetto 169 XI Ethnic amalgamation, like it or not: inheritance in early modern Jewish Rome 181 XII Abramo ben Aron Scazzocchi

Author

Kenneth Stow

Language

EN