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Article: Preachers of the Italian Ghetto.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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The sixteenth century witnessed the ghettoization of Jews in Italy. Although the process was accompanied by compulsory sermons from Christian preachers, Jews flocked to hear Jewish preachers, whose sermons drew on both Judaism and the regnant cultural tastes. Preachers of the Italian Ghetto offers six eminently readable essays and a methodological overview, which together form an important first approach to this valuable literature.
Marc Saperstein's essay, "Italian Jewish Preaching: An Overview," lives up to its title. He considers the intriguing problem of the relation between a sermon as delivered and its later published form. He also examines the role of the ...