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Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 35) - Hardcover

Book 24 of 52: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies

Weinstein, Roni

 
9789004133044: Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 35)

Synopsis

Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews is the first comprehensive attempt to present the wealth of primary documents relating to marriage rituals in Jewish Italian communities - responsa, private letters, court protocols, defamating books, love stories, material objects - and place them in historical context. The book traces the chronological course of different phases of marriage (matchmaking, betrothal, the wedding day), and also adopts a thematic perspective. Marriage rituals mirror key issues in local Jewish culture: family life, gender, the youth sub-culture, sexuality, the uses of property, and the honor ethos. Jewish marriage rituals in Italy are revealed as surprisingly similar to those of their Catholic neighbors, and undergo similar change process.

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About the Author

Roni Weinstein, Ph.D. (1996) in Early Modern Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, currently teaches at Tel-Aviv University. He has published on various aspects of Jewish-Italian cultural and social history: family life, education, sexuality, the ghetto, the youth culture, exorcism.

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