Author: STOW, KENNETH
Title: Theater of Acculturation the Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century
Description: Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2001. First Edition (?). Paperback. ISBN: 0295980222. B&W Maps & Illustrations; 9 X 6 X 0.68 inches; x, 246 pages; Soft cover has a grey spine with white and black lettering; slight corner crease to upper front corner. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with 20 b/w pictures, including maps. 'Jews had been residents of Rome since before the days of Julius Caesar, but the 16th century brought great challenges to their identity and survival in the form of Ghettoization. Intended to expedite conversion and cultural dissolution, in fact, the Ghetto had an opposite effect. The Jews of Rome developed a subculture, or microculture, that ensured continuity'. A fascinating study of the strategies of cultural survival in the Roman Ghetto, by a leading authority on Italian Jews. Bibliography; index.. As New .

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