Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume 17: Ra - Sam

Religion & Spirituality

Cecil Roth

Judaism

Keter Publishing House

The New standard Jewish encyclopedia

Reference

W.H.Allen

Relates the experience of the Portuguese New Christians who from the sixteenth through seventeenth centuries fled the Iberian peninsula and reverted to Judaism

A History of Marranos

History

Europe

Schocken Books / Sepher-Hermon Press, Inc.

The heyday of the Jewish community of Venice is both comparatively late and short, comprising the greater parts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. However, during this time, Venice attracted some of the most vivid personalities in the whole range of Jewish history. It also became for a while an important place of meeting between Jews of the east and west and a significant center of Hebrew printing. At the same time, within the ghetto walls -- the word "ghetto" itself being of Venetian origin -- there developed a social life of extraordinary warmth and interest, which it is possible to reconstruct in unusual detail. In this work, Cecil Roth focuses on the day-to-day life of the Jews and their institutions. He tells of the role Jews played in Venetian life generally, but for the most part describes their organizational and institutional life and portrays many fascinating people -- merchants and scholars -- who were associated with the ghetto. It is in this respect -- as a social history of a Jewish community sharing much in common with other Jewish communities -- that History of the Jews in Venice is a work of great importance for the student of Jewish history, as well as for the casual reader who will find in its pages many absorbing narratives of Jewish-Italian life, brought to light by the historical researches that went into making this book.

History of the Jews in Venice

Schocken Books

Here is the story of Dona Gracia, one of the most remarkable women in Jewish history. The pride of sixteenth century Jewry, she is acknowledged today for her courageous defense of her people and the promotion of their culture. This JPS classic presents the first full-length biography of Dona Gracia in English. It is an epic drama featuring extraordinary characters who risked their lives for freedom of conscience, playing for high stakes among the palaces and political courts of Renaissance Europe.

Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Jewish Publication Society

History of the Jews in England

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