The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi

Leon Modena's Life of Judah

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19884991
AutoresHoward E Adelman, Leone Modena (autor de correspondencia), Benjamin Ravid, Benjamin C I Ravid
Editores / TraductoresMark R Cohen
Año1989
Páginas336
Fecha de publicación1989-12-31
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaAutobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780691213934
OpenAlexW4250294360
Open LibraryOL34185996M
ISBN9780691213934
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7

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 plague of 1630-1631, crime and punishment, the influence of kabbalistic mysticism, and a host of other subjects. The translator, Mark R. Cohen, and four other distinguished scholars add commentary that places the work in historical and literary context

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