Title Mediterranean Enlightenment : Livornese Jews, Tuscan culture, and eighteenth-century reform / Francesca Bregoli.

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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
	Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The nazione ebrea and the Tuscan state : a fruitful symbiosis -- Balancing acts : the unlikely cultural mediations of Joseph Attias -- In praise of good taste : Galilean science, critical spirit, and Hebraic studies -- Entering the medical republic : Jewish physicians and the pursuit of the public good -- Pious care and devotional literature at the time of Enlightenment reform -- Coffee and gambling : Jewish recreation and 'national' separation -- Commerce and Jewish culture : the business of Hebrew publishing -- Economic utility and political reforms : the 'Jewish question' in Livorno -- Conclusion : enlightenment and emancipation : privilege and its discontents.
Summary	This study offers a new take on the engagement of Jews with outside culture and the interplay of the Jewish community with the reforming state through a study of the Jews (nazione ebrea) of eighteenth-century Livorno, a bustling free port in Tuscany, an Italian state known for its far-reaching reforms inspired by Enlightenment principles.
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Subject	Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Italy -- Livorno -- History -- 18th century.
	Jews -- Cultural assimilation.
	Italy -- Livorno.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Livorno (Italy) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century.
	Livorno (Italy) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
	Enlightenment -- Italy -- Tuscany.
	Italy -- Tuscany.
	Tuscany (Italy) -- History -- 1737-1801.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	Enlightenment.
	HISTORY -- Jewish.
	Ethnic relations.
	Intellectual life.
Chronological Term	1700-1801
Genre/Form	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Bregoli, Francesca. Mediterranean Enlightenment 9780804786508 (DLC) 2014007326 (OCoLC)865536917
ISBN	9780804791595 (electronic book)
	0804791597 (electronic book)
	9780804786508
	080478650X

Title Mediterranean Enlightenment : Livornese Jews, Tuscan culture, and eighteenth-century reform / Francesca Bregoli.

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