Fredric Brandfon

Intimate Strangers

A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome

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Produktbeschreibung

Illuminating the history of Jews and Jewish-Catholic relations in Rome, Intimate Strangers investigates the unusual and uninterrupted relationship between Jews and Catholics as it has developed from the first century CE to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jewish Publication Society
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 146mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780827615571
• ISBN-10: 0827615574
• Artikelnr.: 64200282

Autorenporträt

Fredric Brandfon is the former chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Stockton University in New Jersey and founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He has published numerous articles on Roman and Italian Jewish history.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Giannina’s Glance
1. An Inconvenient Liaison: The Triumph of Titus and His Affair with
Berenice
2. “Who Is a Jew?”: Jews, Pagans, Proselytes, and God-Fearers in the Roman
Catacombs
3. A Torah for the Pope: Jewish Participation in Papal Processions
4. Houseguests and Humanists: Philosophers, Poets, Prostitutes, and
Pilgrims in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome
5. Divorce, Roman Style: The Ghetto
6. Love, Death, and Money: Daily Life in Sixteenth-Century Rome
7. “Till the Conversion of the Jews”: Church Attempts at Forced Baptism
8. Trading Places: Papal Exiles and Jewish Emancipations during the
Nineteenth Century
9. Backyard Exiles: The Jews in Fascist Rome
10. The Other Knock on the Door: Jews and Catholics during the Nazi
Occupation of Rome
11. The Arch of Titus Redux: Israel and Vatican II in Postwar Rome
Conclusion: A Walk through the Ghetto
Notes
Bibliography
Index