Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

Francesca Bregoli is Associate Professor of History and Joseph and Oro Halegua Chair in Greek and Sephardic Jewish Studies at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. She is the author of Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform (2014).Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti is Lecturer in Italian History at University College London, UK. Previous publications include Making Italian Jews: Family, Gender, Religion and the Nation, 1861-1918 (Palgrave, 2017).  Guri Schwarz is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Genova, Italy. He is Editor in Chief of Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. Previous publications include After Mussolini: Jewish Life and Jewish Memories in Post-Fascist Italy (2012).

“This highly stimulating collection of essays, … unravels different Italian Jewish networks that emerged and evolved over long stretches of time from the 17th until the 20th centuries, within the larger Mediterranean and European framework. … Italian Jewish Networks offers new perspectives and materials, innovative research, and novel analyses that allow for further reassessment of complex and—geographically and chronologically—widely cast histories.” (Evelien Chayes,Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, April 24, 2019)

• ​1. Introduction;Francesca Bregoli, Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti and Guri Schwarz.- 2. Rabbi Abraham Rovigo’s Home as a Center for Traveling Scholars; Matt Goldish.- 3. La Puerta de la Franquía: Livorno and Pan-Jewish Networks of Beneficence in the Eighteenth Century; Matthias Lehmann.- 4. Elia Benamozegh's Printing Presses: Livornese Crossroads and the New Margins of Italian Jewish History; Clémence Boulouque.- 5. Claiming Livorno: Citizenship, Commerce, and Culture in the Italian Jewish Diaspora; Alyssa Reiman.- 6. Living in Exile: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Study of Religion in Italy (1890s-1930s); Cristiana Facchini.-  7. Under Observation: Italian Jewry and European Jewish Philanthropic Organizations in 1938-1939; Tullia Catalan.- 8. Jewish DPs in Post-War Italy: The Role of Italian Jewry in a Multilateral Encounter (1945-48); Arturo Marzano.- 9. Young Italian Jews in Israel and Back. Voices from a Generation (1945-1953); Marcella Simoni.- Index.