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Author Manduzio, Donato, 1885-1948, author.

Title Donato Manduzio's diary, from church to synagogue / by Viviane Serfaty.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 275 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-275).
Summary Donato Manduzio was an illiterate Southern Italian peasant who only learned how to read and write at the age of thirty-two, while convalescing from a wound during the First World War. His subsequent reading of Scripture and the visions he experienced led him to turn to Judaism and to seek an official conversion for himself and seventy-odd followers. For twelve of the sixteen-year-long process, Manduzio wrote about his experiences. Although some excerpts from the Diary have been translated, the manuscript has remained unpublished either in Italian or in any other language up to this day. This b.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English translated from Italian.
Subject Manduzio, Donato, 1885-1948 -- Diaries.
Manduzio, Donato, 1885-1948 -- Religion.
Jewish converts from Christianity -- Italy -- Sannicandro Garganico.
Jewish converts from Christianity.
Italy -- Sannicandro Garganico.
Autobiography.
Autobiography.
Jews -- Italy -- Sannicandro Garganico -- History -- 20th century.
Jews.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Conversion -- Judaism -- History -- 20th century.
Conversion -- Judaism.
Sannicandro Garganico (Italy) -- Religion.
Sannicandro Garganico (Italy) -- Ethnic relations.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Religion: general.
Cultural studies.
History.
Ethnic relations.
Religion.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Diaries.
History.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Diaries.
Added Author Serfaty, Viviane, editor, translator.
Added Title Diaries. English
Other Form: Print version: Manduzio, Donato, 1885-1948. Diaries. English. Donato Manduzio's diary, from church to synagogue. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 1443812765 (OCoLC)962009166
ISBN 9781443875608 (electronic book)
1443875600 (electronic book)
1443812765
9781443812764