Materia giudaica XXVI/1 (2021)

UNDER GENTILE EYES.  REPRESENTATIONS OF THE JEWS AND JUDAISM
IN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN EUROPE
EDITED BY FABRIZIO FRANCESCHINI AND ENRICO GIACCHERINI

 
CONTENTS PART I

HISTORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, CULTURAL PARADIGMS

The History of Italian Jews within the Framework of the History of the Italian People. Some Introductory Notes  Adriano Prosperi 
Cultural Paradigms in the Accusation of Ritual Murder
Alessandra Veronese
The Jew in the Society and in the Social Processes between the Middle Ages and the Modern Era: the Cases of Florence and Lucca
Mafalda Toniazzi
Paolo Sebastiano Medici, Sofronij Vračanski and the Image of the Jew in the Balkans
Giuseppe Dell’Agata
Assimilation as a Logical Issue
Carmen Dell’Aversano
Attilio Milano’s Unpublished History of the Jewish Nation of Livorno and his Letters on Labronic Issues (1965-1969): a Preliminary Study
Francesca Valentina Diana

PART II
 
LITERATURE, THEATRE, LANGUAGES
 
Merlin and the Jew. An Anti-Semitic Marian Miracle in the Cantiga 108 of Alfonso X
Fabrizio Cigni
Mandeville’s Travels, Alphabets, and the Jews
Enrico Giaccherini
The Languages of the Jews in the Italian Theatre of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. A Study of Fifty Texts
Fabrizio Franceschini
Propaganda and Anti-Semitic Stereotypes in the Siglo de Oro
Giulia Poggi
From Stigma to Salvation? The Heimatlosigkeit of the Jews in Twentieth-Century German-Language Literary Discourse
Serena Grazzini
Jews and Gentiles in Borowski’s Concentration Universe
Giovanna Tomassucci

PART III

ART, BOOKS, MUSIC

A Short Journey through Jewish Art
Dora Liscia Bemporad
Jewish and Gypsy Characters in Seventeenth-Century Theatrical Pieces. A Rediscovered Anthology of Prints
Alice Grazzini
Jewish Culture and Hebrew Language in Luciano Berio’s Music: a Survey
Alessandro Cecchi