Author: Bonfil, Robert
Title: Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1994). orig.boards. 23x16cm, xiii,320 pp, Translated by Anthony Oldcorn.. Textual illustrations. Slight corner bumps, minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Structures of Settlement & the Economy: The Laws of Topodemographic Distribution; Trades & Professions; Structures of Culture & Society: The Problem of Sociocultural Identity: Some Preliminary Observations; Education & the Rabbinical Ideal; Jewish Culture, Hebraists, & the Role of the Kabbalah; Community Institutions; Structures of Mentality: Time & Space; Sounds & Silence; Colors, Tastes, & Odors; The Days of Life; Death as the Mirror of Life; Afterword.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Renaissance Italy, Italian Jews, Social History, Ethnic Minorities, Jewish Minority, Religious Community, Judaism,