By Roni Weinstein

This paintings goals to give the wealth of fundamental files elating to marriage rituals in Jewish Italian groups - reaction, inner most letters, courtroom protocols, defamating books, love tales, fabric items - and position them in ancient context.

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Throughout the Middle Ages, small-scale migrations continued from Sicily, southern Italy, and even North Africa. The character of Italian history—its geographic position, the trade routes, the political role of Italian cities, the banking system—placed the local people at a crossroads: between Christianity and Islam, between the Byzantine (and later Ottoman) east and west, between the European north and the European or Mediterranean south. Jewish culture in Italy includes notable elements from these cultural circles.

Kent and Patricia Simons (Canberra: Humanities Research Center, 1987), 25–45.   ,  ,   33 rituals, and carnivalesque events, up to the government’s rituals of legitimation. The theoretical discussion of “major” questions relies on observations of small communities and of people in their everyday lives. In the course of their investigations, anthropologists tried to offer a wide-ranging and comprehensive cultural interpretation, or to present culture as an all-encompassing frame of action.

By the end of the sixteenth century, the Church urged Jews living in Italy’s large cities to concentrate in segregated neighborhoods, and “ghettos” sprung up one after another. Italian Jews went on living there and maintaining an independent community life until the twentieth century. Throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period, then, the Jewish presence in Italy never ceased, despite the movement northwards and the shift from mid-sized to larger cities. By contrast, Jews in Spain, Portugal, England, France, and Ashkenaz suffered full or large-scale expulsions.

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