Cultural Intermediaries

David B. Ruderman is Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key and Jewish Discovery and Scientific Thought in Early Modern Europe. Giuseppe Veltri is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and Director of the Leopold Zunz Centre for the Study of European Judaism. He is author of Juden in der Renaissance and Gegenwart der Tradition.

"A new window into the richness of Renaissance culture, which cannot be understood without the Jews." (American Historical Review) "Cultural Intermediaries is highly original, featuring contributions from the leading internationally renowned scholars in the field. It raises the discourse on the intellectual history of Jews in Italy during the sixteenth century to a new and higher level. A cutting-edge analysis." (Benjamin Ravid, Brandeis University)

• Introduction-David Ruderman1. Biography and Autobiography in Yohanan Alemanno's Literary Perception-Fabrizio Lelli2. Elijah Delmedigo: An Archetype of the Halakhic Man?-Harvey Hames3. Philo and Sophia: Leone Ebreo's Concept of Jewish Philosophy-Giuseppe Veltri4. Joseph ha-Kohen, Paolo Giovio and Sixteenth-Century Historiography-Martin Jacobs5. Religious Life and Jewish Erudition in Pisa: Yehiel Nissim da Pisa and the Crisis of Aristotelianism-Alessandro Guetta6. The Beautiful Soul: Azariah de' Rossi's Search for Truth-Joanna Weinberg7. The Teaching Program of David ben Abraham and His Son Abraham Provenzali in Its Historical-Cultural Context-Gianfranco Miletto8. Judah Moscato's Scholarly Self-Image and the Question of Jewish Humanism-Adam Shear9. As Framed, So Perceived: Salamone Rossi ebreo, Late Renaissance Musician-Don HarrÁn10. Amatus Lusitanus and the Location of Sixteenth-Century Cultures-Eleazar Gutwirth11. Italy in Safed, Safed in Italy: Toward an Interactive History of Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah-Moshe Idel12. A Bibliography of Jewish Cultural History in the Early Modern Period-Giuseppe VeltriList of ContributorsIndex