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Cover 1 Half Title 4 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Introduction 12 Acknowledgements 16 Dedication 17 PART 1: THE PAPAL CHALLENGE 18 I The burning of the Talmud in 1553, in the light of sixteenth century Catholic attitudes toward the Talmud (reset and updated) 18 II The consciousness of closure: Roman Jewry and its ghet 43 III Expulsion Italian style: the case of Lucio Ferraris 58 IV The good of the church, the good of the state: the Popes and Jewish money 72 PART 2: IN SEARCH OF CONVERSION 88 V Church, conversion, and tradition: the problem of Jewish conversion in sixteenth century Italy 88 VI A tale of uncertainties: converts in the Roman ghetto 98 VII Neofiti and their families: or, perhaps, the good of the state 124 VIII Delitto e castigo nello stato della chiesa: gli ebrei nelle carceri romane dal 1572 al 1659 134 PART 3: THE JEWS OF ROME 154 IX Prossimità o distanza: etnicità, sefarditi e assenza di conflitti etnici nella Roma del sedicesimo secolo 154 X Ethnic rivalry or melting pot: The “edot” in the Roman ghetto 168 XI Ethnic amalgamation, like it or not: inheritance in early modern Jewish Rome 180 XII Abramo ben Aron Scazzocchio: another kind of rabbi 196 XIII Th

Author

Kenneth Stow

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