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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816198103321

Autore

Stow Kenneth R

Titolo

Theater of Acculturation : The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century / / Kenneth Stow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, WA : , : University of Washington Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

0-295-99753-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 pages)

Disciplina

945/.632004924

Soggetti

Jews - Italy - Rome - History - 16th century

Juden

Getto

Jews

Ethnic relations

Italy Rome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Jews of Rome and the rhythms of Roman Jewish life -- The Jew in a traumatized society -- What is in a name? or, The matrices of acculturation -- Social reconciliation, from within and without.

Sommario/riassunto

"Generations of tourists visiting Rome have ventured into the small section between the Tiber River and the Capitoline Hill whose narrow, dark streets lead to the charming Fountain of the Tortoises, the brooding mass of the Palazzo Cenci, and some of the best restaurants in the city. This was the site of the Ghetto, within whose walls the Jews of Rome were compelled to live from 1555 until 1870. In Theater of Acculturation, Kenneth Stow, leading authority on Italian Jews, probes Jewish life in Rome in the early years of the Ghetto."--Jacket.