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.