This book explores a heretical blueprint for Jewish modernization written by a Venetian rabbi (under cover of pseudonym) in the early seventeenth century, almos

Jews in the Early Modern World presents a comparative and global history of the Jews for the early modern period, 1400-1700. It traces the remarkable demographi

This collection of essays offers a fresh look into Christian-Jewish cultural interactions during the Renaissance and beyond. Christian scholars, it is shown, we

The first biography of the Jewish poet and polemicist Sarra Copia Sulam situates her in the tradition of women's writing in Venice and explores her rise and fal

The constraints of the ghetto and the concomitant interaction of various Jewish traditions produced a remarkable cultural flowering.