The Most Tenacious of Minorities
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The Most Tenacious of Minorities by Sara Reguer
Since arriving in Rome more than 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity over millennia. This book traces the foundations of their community, focusing on their economic, intellectual, and social lives as they moved between northern and southern Italy. Over the centuries these localized Italian groups were reinforced with the arrival of German, Provencal, Sephardic, and—most recently—Ashkenazi and Middle Eastern Jews. Surviving religious persecution, ghetto-ization, and the Holocaust, the Jews contributed to Italian society when they could. Supplemented by maps, illustrations, sidebars, and primary sources, this book is a scholarly yet popular overview of a minority group that is proud to be Italian and equally proud to be Jewish.“Reguer tells her 2,000-year-old story with clarity and easeHer organization is excellent. She is modest. She does not get bogged down in minutia to display her erudition, or suggest she has discovered information that is new to Italian Jewish scholarship. We are fortunate to have this readable book.”
—Andrée Aelion Brooks, Yale University, Sephardic Horizons
"This well written, clear, insightful... book is highly recommended as an introduction and general overview to courses on the history of Jews in Italy."
— Dr. David B Levy, Touro College, Jewish Journal of Sociology
Sara Reguer (PhD Columbia University) is chair of the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is the co-editor and co-author of The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times (2003, with Reeva Simon and Michael Laskier).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781644690307 |
| ISBN 10 | 1644690306 |
| Title | The Most Tenacious of Minorities |
| Author | Sara Reguer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Academic Studies Press |
| Year published | 2019-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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