Ilana Zinguer is Professor Emerita in Renaissance French Literature and ex-Chair of The Center for the Study of French Civilization at the Univesity of Haifa. Her publications include discussions of French literature, emblems, women, travels, alchemy, medicine, Hebrew, and Hebraic sources of the Renaissance.Abraham Melamed is Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Wolfson Chair for the Study of Jewish Cultural Heritage at the University of Haifa. He has published widely on medieval and Renaissance Jewish intellectual history and political philosophy.Zur Shalev, Ph.D. (2004) in History, Princeton University, is researching and teaching early modern European history at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has published works on geography, cartography, travel, pilgrimage, Hebraism, and Orientalism.

"This excellent volume presents papers from a conference at the University of Haifa (2009) and serves as a companion to the ground-breaking expanded horizons of Jewish Renaissance scholarship led by Moshe Idel,Robert Bonfil, and David Ruderman. It makes a positive contribution to the prior Baronian “anti-lachyrmose historiography” Renaissance scholarship of C. Roth, M. A. Shulvass, A. Milano, and A. Lesley." - Dr. David B. Levy, in: Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012)

• Part I – Kabbalah and MysticismGiulio Camillo’s Memory Theatre and the Kabbalah Lina BolzoniEntering the Labyrinth: On the Hebraic and Kabbalistic Universe of Egidio da Viterbo Daniel Stein-KokinWhither Kabbalah? Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Kabbalah, and the Disputations against Judicial Astrology Sheila J. RabinPart II – Philosophy and the HumanitiesA - The AbravanelA Paradigm in Isaac Abravanel's Encounter with Renaissance Culture Cédric Cohen SkalliLeone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’amore as a Pivotal Document of Jewish-Christian Relations in Renaissance Rome James Nelson NovoaB - Philosophical AspectsThe Immortality of the Soul and Opening Up to the Christian World: A Chapter in Early Modern Jewish-Italian Literature Alessandro GuettaAuthority vs. Authenticity. The Leiden Debate on Bible and Hebrew (1575-1650) Arthur EyffingerC - Conversos, Language and BaroqueDe la pureté de sang aux XVe et XVIe siècles Annie Molinié et Béatrice PerezL'implicite à propos des Juifs de Rome Ilana ZinguerVers une sémiotique du Judaïsme à l'âge baroque Georges MoliniéD - LiteratureMoses Zacuto Poet of Kabbalah Dvora BregmanLe Rôle de la poésie Hébraïque dans l’enseignement de Charles Utenhove Philip FordE - Hebraism and Geographical ThoughtThe Role of Early Renaissance Geographical Discoveries in Yohanan Alemanno's Messianic Thought Fabrizio LelliKabbale et cosmographie, de Guillaume Postel à Jacques d'Auzoles-Lapeyre Frank LestringantConclusionRace, Antisemitism and the Renaissance in Fascist Italy David Baum