Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation by Francesconi, Federica
Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation by Francesconi, Federica

Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation

Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who lived and prospered in the northern Italian...
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Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation by Francesconi, Federica

Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation

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Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation by Francesconi, Federica

Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation

$256.53
Author: Federica Francesconi
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who lived and prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena, capital city of the Este Duchy, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her protagonists are men and women who stood out within their communities but who, despite their cultural and economic prominence, were ghettoized after 1638. Their sociocultural transformation and eventual legal and political integration evolved through a complex dialogue between their Italian and Jewish identities, and without the traumatic ruptures or dramatic divides that led to the assimilation and conversion of many Jews elsewhere in Europe.

In Modena, male and female Jewish identities were contoured by both cultural developments internal to the community and engagement with the broader society. The study of Lurianic and Cordoverian Kabbalah, liturgical and nondevotional Hebrew poetry, and Sabbateanism existed alongside interactions with Jesuits, converts, and inquisitors. If Modenese Jewish merchants were absent from the public discourse of the Estes, their businesses lives were nevertheless located at the very geographical and economic center of the city. They lived in an environment that gave rise to unique forms of Renaissance culture, early modern female agency, and Enlightenment practice. New Jewish ways of performing gender emerged in the seventeenth century, giving rise to what could be called an entrepreneurial female community devoted to assisting, employing, and socializing in the ghetto. Indeed, the ghetto leadership prepared both Jewish men and women for the political and legal emancipation they would eventually obtain under Napoleon. It was the cultured Modenese merchants who combined active participation in the political struggle for Italian Jewish emancipation with the creation of a special form of the Enlightenment embedded in scholarly and French-oriented lay culture that emerged within the European context.

Author: Federica Francesconi
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 06/04/2021
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780812253146


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About the Author
Federica Francesconi is on the faculty of History and is the Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
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