Leone da Modena's Riti: a Seventeenth-Century Plea For Social Toleration of Jews.
The author criticizes the book "Historia de riti hebraici," by Leone da Modena. He describes this work as depicting a new awareness among Jews and Christians at the beginning of the seventeenth century and representing incipient Jewish attempts to re-orient Christian attitudes toward the Jews. He al...
| Published in: | Jewish Social Studies Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 287 - 322 |
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| Format: | Literary Criticism |
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Indiana University Press
Oct72
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| Summary: | The author criticizes the book "Historia de riti hebraici," by Leone da Modena. He describes this work as depicting a new awareness among Jews and Christians at the beginning of the seventeenth century and representing incipient Jewish attempts to re-orient Christian attitudes toward the Jews. He also stresses that Modena emphatically reported that there were no longer any heretics in Judaism, except for residual elements of the Karaites. |
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