And their Christian humanist friends.

The astrolabe of Verona.

“The Story of My Family.”

The legend of the Kalonymos family.

Jews return to Catania.

Rabbinic “fellows” and their graduation odes.

Immanuel of Rome.

Neither Sephardi nor Ashkenazi.

Stock up on flour and oil!

As descendants of forced converts return to Judaism.

A long-forgotten text sheds new light on a gruesome episode.

Obadiah Sforno was a philosopher and exegete who taught Hebrew to the humanists.

The pope’s not-so-secret Jewish treasures.

Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist.