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The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology—and the relatively rapid emb

Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music

Between the years 1550 and 1650, Italy's Jewish intellectuals created a unique and enduring synthesis of the great literary and philosophical heritage of the An

The constraints of the ghetto and the concomitant interaction of various Jewish traditions produced a remarkable cultural flowering.

David B. Ruderman's groundbreaking studies of Jewish intellectuals as they engaged with Renaissance humanism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment h