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Illumination, Inspiration, and Inquisition: The 15th and 16th century reception and reaction of Dante’s Divina Commedia in Spain This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2025-05-19
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Francesca Mauro
Access: Embargoed
"Italianos por todos lados (Italians Everywhere)": Italian Immigrants and Argentine Exceptionalism Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Julia Elisabeth Perillo
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Parole lievitanti: La panificazione spirituale di S. Caterina di Bologna This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2027-05-19
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Katherine Aiello McKee
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Between Orientalism, Tradition, and Nationalism:
Building Jewish Identity in Twentieth-century Libya
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Jonathan Gordon Lerdau
Access: Open access
- Libyan Jewry and Jews of the Italian peninsula have engaged in near-constant interaction at least as far back as the time of the Roman empire. This project seeks to add to the history of those interactions by discussing Italian Jewish colonial impacts on the Libyan Jewish population. Using ideas of Orientalism and the imagined nation, this project demonstrates how Libyan Jewish identity was shaped by interaction with Italy and how Italian Jews worked colonially to subjugate, define, and change Libyan Jewry. Through analyzing–among other things–newspapers, scholarship, and general Italian Jewish discussion of and interaction with Libyan Jews, I show how Italian Jews (and elite Libyan Jews) worked to Italianize and later ‘Hebraicize’ the Libyan Jewish community..