Donato Manduzio's diary, from church to synagogue /
Donato Manduzio was an illiterate Southern Italian peasant who only learned how to read and write at the age of thirty-two, while convalescing from a wound during the First World War. His subsequent reading of Scripture and the visions he experienced led him to turn to Judaism and to seek an officia...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Donato Manduzio was an illiterate Southern Italian peasant who only learned how to read and write at the age of thirty-two, while convalescing from a wound during the First World War. His subsequent reading of Scripture and the visions he experienced led him to turn to Judaism and to seek an official conversion for himself and seventy-odd followers. For twelve of the sixteen-year-long process, Manduzio wrote about his experiences. Although some excerpts from the Diary have been translated, the manuscript has remained unpublished either in Italian or in any other language up to this day. This b. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 275 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-275). |
ISBN: | 9781443875608 1443875600 |