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Jewish Theatre Making in Mantua, 1520–1650 / Erith Jaffe-Berg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish EngagementsPublisher: Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781641892513
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 945.004924 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Figure 1. Map of Northern Italy with cities with significant Jewish contribution to theatre- making in Italy, 1520– 1650. Copyright Christian Harder, Esri -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction: “Under the Happy Shadow and Secure Protection” -- Chapter 2. Beginnings: Jews and the Early Modern Italian Stage 1475– 1540 -- Chapter 3. A Canny Theatrical Intermediary -- Chapter 4. A Virtuoso of Jewish Mantua -- Chapter 5. Jewish Theatrical Production in the Shadow of the Counter- Reformation -- Chapter 6. The End of Jewish Performance in Mantua -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Translation of Description of Jewish Performance in Pesaro in 1475 -- Appendix 2. Jewish Performances in Mantua -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This book studies how the Jewish community of Mantua established, normalized, and maintained interrelations with the Christian community for over 130 years, from 1520 to 1650, by means of theatre performance for the Gonzaga Dukes. Performance is shown to have been a mutually beneficial "currency" that both the Dukes and Jews could use to calibrate their relations with one another. Seen in this light, the author demonstrates that performance was not the consequence of cultural exchange between Jews and Christians, but was one of the means by which the complicated nature of cultural communication and exchange took place. Jewish Theatre Making in Mantua details the performances created by the Jewish community of Mantua and argues that these theatrical events were a crucial component in the ability of Jews to live peacefully within Mantua, which became one of the few refuges left to Jews in the Italian peninsula and Catholic Europe.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Figure 1. Map of Northern Italy with cities with significant Jewish contribution to theatre- making in Italy, 1520– 1650. Copyright Christian Harder, Esri -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction: “Under the Happy Shadow and Secure Protection” -- Chapter 2. Beginnings: Jews and the Early Modern Italian Stage 1475– 1540 -- Chapter 3. A Canny Theatrical Intermediary -- Chapter 4. A Virtuoso of Jewish Mantua -- Chapter 5. Jewish Theatrical Production in the Shadow of the Counter- Reformation -- Chapter 6. The End of Jewish Performance in Mantua -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Translation of Description of Jewish Performance in Pesaro in 1475 -- Appendix 2. Jewish Performances in Mantua -- Bibliography -- Index

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This book studies how the Jewish community of Mantua established, normalized, and maintained interrelations with the Christian community for over 130 years, from 1520 to 1650, by means of theatre performance for the Gonzaga Dukes. Performance is shown to have been a mutually beneficial "currency" that both the Dukes and Jews could use to calibrate their relations with one another. Seen in this light, the author demonstrates that performance was not the consequence of cultural exchange between Jews and Christians, but was one of the means by which the complicated nature of cultural communication and exchange took place. Jewish Theatre Making in Mantua details the performances created by the Jewish community of Mantua and argues that these theatrical events were a crucial component in the ability of Jews to live peacefully within Mantua, which became one of the few refuges left to Jews in the Italian peninsula and Catholic Europe.

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In English.

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