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Jews and State Building
Early Modern Italy, and Beyond
Series: - Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume: 79
This volume aims to shed new light on the history of the Jews in Italy between the early modern period and the emergence of a unified Italian state, explicitly placing Jews within the history of the state-building process. It seeks to reconsider Jewish history systematically by stressing the relation of Jews and the state and to trace how Jews and their communities were reshaped in the early modern period.
Bernard D. Cooperman currently holds the Louis L. Kaplan Chair in Jewish History at the University of Maryland. He has edited five volumes of scholarly essays, has translated and edited works, and has published over thirty scholarly essays. He is currently preparing a book-length study of the development of institutions of self-government as a sign of Jewish modernity.
Serena Di Nepi is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Sapienza - University of Rome. She is an expert on the history of religious minorities in Early Modern Italy, with a special focus on Rome and the Papal States. The revised English version of her first book Surviving the Ghetto was published by Brill in 2020.
Germano Maifreda is professor of Economic History at the University of Milan, Italy. He is an expert on the European political and economic history of the Reformation and Counter-reformation, working at the intersection between business history, religious minorities, and institutional discriminations. His books include The Trial of Giordano Bruno (Routledge 2022) and his biography of cardinal Giovanni Morone with Massimo Firpo is being translated by Brill.
Serena Di Nepi is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Sapienza - University of Rome. She is an expert on the history of religious minorities in Early Modern Italy, with a special focus on Rome and the Papal States. The revised English version of her first book Surviving the Ghetto was published by Brill in 2020.
Germano Maifreda is professor of Economic History at the University of Milan, Italy. He is an expert on the European political and economic history of the Reformation and Counter-reformation, working at the intersection between business history, religious minorities, and institutional discriminations. His books include The Trial of Giordano Bruno (Routledge 2022) and his biography of cardinal Giovanni Morone with Massimo Firpo is being translated by Brill.
Without denying that the ideal readers of this book are scholars in various fields of premodern and modern European history, we are confident that the curiosity that the history of the Jews arouses among general audiences will make it attractive for readers and/or students without specialized knowledge in the area. The accessible language and structure of the volume are meant to allow it to speak to a broad scholarly interdisciplinary audience. Given that the material is original and interpretive, we expect that the book will be suitable for adoption in advanced undergraduate classes, graduate classes, and will also have strong scholarly appeal in a growing academic field.