Surviving the ghetto : toward a social history of the Jewish community in 16th-century Rome /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Di Nepi, Serena (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Rosenberg, Paul M. (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Edition:English edition.
Series:Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume 65
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Before the Ghetto
  • 1. Rome and the Spanish Refugees
  • 2. Statute for the Jews of Rome (1524)
  • 3. Burning of the Talmud and the Anti-Jewish Turn in the First Half of the 16th Century
  • 4. Avoided Expulsion from the Papal States
  • 5. What If the Emperor Had Won?
  • 2. Birth of the Ghetto and the Dangers Narrowly Escaped in 1555
  • 1. Sforno Case (1527-1555)
  • 2. Blood Libel in Rome?
  • 3. Imaginary Violence
  • 3. Ruling Class for the Jews of the Ghetto
  • 1. Avoided Reforms
  • 2. Have Faith in the Notary: Pompeo del Borgo
  • 3. Arbitrators and Arbitration in the Selection of the Ruling Class
  • 4. Housing Problems and Issues with Taxes
  • 5. Discipline of the Rabbis
  • 6. Jewish Identity: a Trial for Crimes and Other Excesses in 1572
  • 7. Religious Belonging in Court?
  • 4. Career Bankers
  • 1. Trial and a Case Study: Salomone Ram (1594)
  • 2. Ram Family, Moneylenders in the Ghetto Years
  • 3. Regulation of the Jewish Banks (1590)
  • 4. Jewish Banks
  • 5. Still Bankers?
  • 5. Unexpected Opportunities
  • 1. Valuable stracci from the Hospitals
  • 2. Market Spaces: the Jews, Public Space and Real Estate Ownership
  • 3. Business Travel
  • 6. Camerlengo, a Protector in the Curia
  • 1. inhibitiones rationefoenoris
  • 2. In the Name and on Behalf of the Camerlengo
  • 3. Story of a Special Relationship
  • 7. Separate at Home
  • 1. Christians at the Jewish Notary
  • 2. Business of Converts.