The Jews of Italy: Memory and Identity Book

	Preface	7
	Introduction	15
	The History of the Jews in Italy: Memory and Identity	25
Pt. I	Archaeology and History in Southern Italy
	The Jews in Italy in the First to Sixth Centuries C.E.	47
	Hebrew Inscriptions of the Early Medieval Period in Southern Italy	65
	The Aragonese Kings of Naples and the Jews	82
Pt. II	Rome and Venice
	Converts and Conversos in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Marranos in Rome	109
	The New Fashioned from the Old: Parallels in Public and Learned Memory and Practice in Sixteenth-Century Jewish Rome	130
	Between the Myth of Venice and the Lachrymose Conception of Jewish History: The Case of the Jews of Venice	151
	Shakespeare's Shylock: Evidence from Venice	193
	The Activity of the "Scuola Grande Tedesca" of Venice on behalf of the Jewish Community of Eretz Yisrael (1642-1788)	209
Pt. III	Kabbalah
	Abraham Abulafia and Menahem ben Benjamin in Rome: The Beginnings of Kabbalah in Italy	233
	The Last Debate on Kabbalah in Italian Judaism: I. S. Reggio, S. D. Iuzzatto, E. Benamozegh	256
	New Light on the Career of Isaac Samuel Reggio	276
Pt. IV	Language and Culture
	The Spoken Languages of the Jews of Italy: How Far Back?	307
	The Judeo-Roman Translation of the Bible: A Case of Reflected Vernacular Literature?	317
	Jewish Ceremonial Art in Italian Synagogues: Silver Objects and Textiles after the Institution of the Ghettos	339
	The Dishes of the Jews of Italy: A Historical Survey	349
	Judaism and Children's Literature: Emanuele Levi's Giornale (1822-1823)	357
Pt. V	Anti-Semitism and the Shoah
	Social Perception of the Shoah in Italy	381
	Social Aspects of Italian Anti-Jewish Legislation	401
	The Persecution of the Jews in Fascist Italy: 1936-1943	412
	Jewish Refuges from Fascist Italy to Britain	425
	The Persecution of Jews in Italy, 1943-1945: A Chronicle of Events	443
	Jewish Identity Today	455