Dickdook with Judah Monis.

Salomone de Sesso.

When other cities put Jews in ghettos, Sabbioneta oversaw a trailblazing printing press.

In the international gothic style.

Azariah de’ Rossi, Modern Orthodox rabbi?

An 11th-century talmudic encyclopedia.

Part Joyce, part Balzac, part yizkor book.

And how Hebrew wound up on a central column.

The myth of the good Italian.

With some rabbinic assistance.

As told by their surnames.

His villa is now a ḥasidic summer camp.

Two moments of Italian Jewish distinctiveness.