Erith Jaffe-Berg is Professor and Chair of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production at the University of California, Riverside

• Chapter 1. Introduction: “Under the Happy Shadow and Secure Protection”Chapter 2. Beginnings: Jews and the Early Modern Italian Stage 1475 – 1540Chapter 3. Leone de’ Sommi: A Canny Theatrical IntermediaryChapter 4. Simon Basilea: A Virtuoso of Jewish MantuaChapter 5. Jewish Theatrical Production in the Shadow of the Counter-ReformationChapter 6. The End of Jewish Performance in MantuaChapter 7. ConclusionAppendix I: A transcription and translation of the first known performance by the Jews of Pesaro in 1474.Appendix II: A List of all performances staged by the Jews of Mantua Bibliography

Erith Jaffe-Berg is Professor and Chair of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production at the University of California, Riverside

• Chapter 1. Introduction: “Under the Happy Shadow and Secure Protection”Chapter 2. Beginnings: Jews and the Early Modern Italian Stage 1475 – 1540Chapter 3. Leone de’ Sommi: A Canny Theatrical IntermediaryChapter 4. Simon Basilea: A Virtuoso of Jewish MantuaChapter 5. Jewish Theatrical Production in the Shadow of the Counter-ReformationChapter 6. The End of Jewish Performance in MantuaChapter 7. ConclusionAppendix I: A transcription and translation of the first known performance by the Jews of Pesaro in 1474.Appendix II: A List of all performances staged by the Jews of Mantua Bibliography

Erith Jaffe-Berg is Professor and Chair of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production at the University of California, Riverside

• Chapter 1. Introduction: “Under the Happy Shadow and Secure Protection”Chapter 2. Beginnings: Jews and the Early Modern Italian Stage 1475 – 1540Chapter 3. Leone de’ Sommi: A Canny Theatrical IntermediaryChapter 4. Simon Basilea: A Virtuoso of Jewish MantuaChapter 5. Jewish Theatrical Production in the Shadow of the Counter-ReformationChapter 6. The End of Jewish Performance in MantuaChapter 7. ConclusionAppendix I: A transcription and translation of the first known performance by the Jews of Pesaro in 1474.Appendix II: A List of all performances staged by the Jews of Mantua Bibliography