Rabbis and Jewish Communities in Renaissance Italy

by Robert Bonfil

This text provides a broadly-based study of Jewish history in Italy during the Renaissance, focusing on the most distinguished group in Jewish society, the Rabbinate. The author discusses a variety of subjects in the social, cultural and institutional history of the period, including the status and functions of the Rabbinate, the relation of Rabbinic ordination to the doctorate conferred by universities, the religious role of the Rabbinate, and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197100643
• ISBN13: 9780197100646
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in Ass
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.