Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome: Challenge, Conversion, and Private Life

by Kenneth R. Stow

The essays in this second volume by Kenneth Stow explore the fate of Jews living in Rome, directly under the eye of the Pope. Most Roman Jews were not immigrants; some had been there before the time of Christ. Nor were they cultural strangers. They spoke (Roman) Italian, ate and dressed as did other Romans, and their marital practices reflected Roman noble usage. Rome's Jews were called cives, but unequal ones, and to resolve this anomaly, Paul IV...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138621498
• ISBN13: 9781138621497
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.