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Mediterranean Enlightenment : Livornese Jews, Tuscan culture, and eighteenth-century reform /
This study offers a new take on the engagement of Jews with outside culture and the interplay of the Jewish community with the reforming state through a study of the Jews (nazione ebrea) of eighteenth-century Livorno, a bustling free port in Tuscany, an Italian state known for its far-reaching refor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The nazione ebrea and the Tuscan state : a fruitful symbiosis
- Balancing acts : the unlikely cultural mediations of Joseph Attias
- In praise of good taste : Galilean science, critical spirit, and Hebraic studies
- Entering the medical republic : Jewish physicians and the pursuit of the public good
- Pious care and devotional literature at the time of Enlightenment reform
- Coffee and gambling : Jewish recreation and 'national' separation
- Commerce and Jewish culture : the business of Hebrew publishing
- Economic utility and political reforms : the 'Jewish question' in Livorno
- Conclusion : enlightenment and emancipation : privilege and its discontents.