Mediterranean Enlightenment : Livornese Jews, Tuscan culture, and eighteenth-century reform /
Bregoli, Francesca,
Mediterranean Enlightenment : Livornese Jews, Tuscan culture, and eighteenth-century reform / Francesca Bregoli. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The nazione ebrea and the Tuscan state : a fruitful symbiosis -- Balancing acts : the unlikely cultural mediations of Joseph Attias -- In praise of good taste : Galilean science, critical spirit, and Hebraic studies -- Entering the medical republic : Jewish physicians and the pursuit of the public good -- Pious care and devotional literature at the time of Enlightenment reform -- Coffee and gambling : Jewish recreation and 'national' separation -- Commerce and Jewish culture : the business of Hebrew publishing -- Economic utility and political reforms : the 'Jewish question' in Livorno -- Conclusion : enlightenment and emancipation : privilege and its discontents.
9780804791595
Jews--Cultural assimilation--History--Italy--Livorno--18th century.
Enlightenment--Italy--Tuscany.
Electronic Books.
DS135 / .M435 2014
Mediterranean Enlightenment : Livornese Jews, Tuscan culture, and eighteenth-century reform / Francesca Bregoli. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The nazione ebrea and the Tuscan state : a fruitful symbiosis -- Balancing acts : the unlikely cultural mediations of Joseph Attias -- In praise of good taste : Galilean science, critical spirit, and Hebraic studies -- Entering the medical republic : Jewish physicians and the pursuit of the public good -- Pious care and devotional literature at the time of Enlightenment reform -- Coffee and gambling : Jewish recreation and 'national' separation -- Commerce and Jewish culture : the business of Hebrew publishing -- Economic utility and political reforms : the 'Jewish question' in Livorno -- Conclusion : enlightenment and emancipation : privilege and its discontents.
9780804791595
Jews--Cultural assimilation--History--Italy--Livorno--18th century.
Enlightenment--Italy--Tuscany.
Electronic Books.
DS135 / .M435 2014