Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi Leon Modena's Life of Judah

Name: Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi Leon Modena's Life of Judah
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ISBN: 9780691008240

ISBN-10: 0691008248

ISBN-13: 9780691008240

Edition: 1989

Authors: Leone Modena, Mark R. Cohen, Leon Modena, Natalie Zemon Davis, Benjamin C. Ravid

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Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community--a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. Modena (1571-1648) produced an autobiography that documents in poignant detail the turbulent life of his family in the Jewish ghetto of Venice. The text of this work is well known to Jewish scholars but has never before been translated from the original Hebrew, except in brief excerpts. This complete translation, based on Modena's autograph manuscript, makes available in English a wealth of historical material about Jewish family life of the period, religion in daily life, the…

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/21/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English