Writing Plague : Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague /

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A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630-31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores the Hebrew texts that lay witness to the event. These Jewish sources on the Great Italian Plague have never been treated together as a group,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Einbinder, Susan L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
Colección:Jewish Culture and Contexts
Temas:
Hebrew literature > Italy > History and criticism.
Hebrew literature > Italy > History > 17th century.
Jewish literature > Italy > History > 17th century.
Jews > Italy > History > 17th century.
Plague in literature.
Plague > Italy > History > 17th century.
History of Jewish People and Culture.
History-Europe.
Interdisciplinary-Jewish Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies.
Abraham Catalano.
Abraham Massarani.
Hebrew.
Italian.
Italy.
Jewish.
Mantua.
Rabbi Solomon of Marini.
black death.
collective memory.
community.
early modern.
epitaph.
eulogy.
forgetting forgetfulness.
ghetto.
grief.
history.
lament.
literature.
liturgy.
natural disaster.
padua.
pandemic.
plague narratives.
plague.
poetry.
private public.
representation.
self-fashioning.
seventeenth century.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figure 1. Map of Northern Italy, c. 1630. Created by Gordon Thompson, 2021.
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Poetry, Prose, and Pestilence: Joseph Concio and Jewish Responses to the 1630-31 Italian Plague
  • Chapter 2. Narrating Plague: Abraham Catalano and Abraham Massarani
  • Chapter 3. Interpolated Poetry: When Prose Is Not Enough
  • Chapter 4. Jewish Plague Liturgy from Medieval and Early Modern Italy
  • Chapter 5. Plague from the Pulpit: Rabbi Solomon Marini in Padua
  • Chapter 6. Eulogies, Laments, and Epitaphs: The Death of the Narrator
  • Appendix 1. Sermon Outlines by Solomon Marini
  • Appendix 2. Burial and Poetic Eulogies for Abraham Catalano by Solomon Marini and Moses Catalano
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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