Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
1996
Publication Source
Renaissance Quarterly
Volume
49
Issue
4
Start Page
850
Last Page
853
DOI
10.2307/2862965
Abstract
This is a major work by one of the most creative and original historians of medieval and early modern Jewish history. Based on his extensive scholarship on Italian Jewry over the past twenty years, published primarily in Hebrew and Italian, it brings to the English reader a bold but mature synthesis of a significant epoch in Jewish and western history. Eschewing extensive annotation, the book, while hardly a popular survey, has a quality made more accessible to a wide readership by the elegantly simple and supple prose of the English translator Anthony Oldcorn, which captures Bonfil's original insights and observations concerning Italian Jewish culture and the Renaissance.
Copyright/Permission Statement
© 1996 by University of Chicago Press.
Recommended Citation
Ruderman, D. B. (1996). Review of Robert Bonfil, Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy. Renaissance Quarterly, 49 (4), 850-853. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2862965
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