Italian Jewry

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

Tamar Marvin
April 27 2023 12:01AM

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

Lawrence Schiffman
March 21 2023 12:01AM

Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist.

Robert Marshall
March 17 2023 12:01AM

Jewish excellence in musical theater, three centuries before Irving Berlin.

Rebecca Cypess
March 15 2023 12:01AM

The coveted position of “preacher to the Jews.”

Emily Michaelson
Jan. 9 2023 12:01AM

Elia Benamozegh.

Pinchas Giller
Dec. 30 2022 12:01AM

An exhibit includes a 16th-century Yiddish version of a Latin anatomy textbook.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Dec. 27 2022 12:01AM

A new Torah scroll, 530 years after the expulsion.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Nov. 21 2022 12:01AM

After being captured by a converso friar-turned-pirate.

Natalie Zemon Davis
Nov. 2 2022 12:01AM

Loans, schmattes, and medical care.

Henry Abramson
Sept. 8 2022 12:01AM

Syndrome K.

Stephen Silver
Aug. 25 2022 12:01AM

They succeed most when they feel like home.

Alex Pomson
Aug. 23 2022 12:01AM