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Francesca Bregoli

 

PhD in History (2007), University of Pennsylvania

MA in Jewish Art and Material Culture, The Jewish Theological Seminary (2001)

Posizione attuale: Assistant Professor of Jewish History, Queens College/CUNY

 

Recapiti:

History Department,

Powdermaker Hall 352YY,

Queens College of the City University of New York,

65-30 Kissena Blvd.,

Flushing NY 11367 USA

Tel. +1-718-997-5410

Email: francesca.bregoli@qc.cuny.edu

 

TEMI DI RICERCA

Storia ebraica nell'età moderna (comunità italiane e sefardite);

Storia del libro ebraico;

Arte rituale e cultura materiale ebraica in Italia nell'età barocca;

Tesi di PhD: "Mediterranean Enlightenment: Jewish Acculturation in Livorno, 1737-1790".

 

PUBBLICAZIONI

Volumi

 

Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reforms (Stanford University Press, in corso di pubblicazione).

 

Numero speciale di Jewish History su Tradition and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Jewish Integration in Comparative Perspective, 24: 3-4 (2010), guest editor con Federica Francesconi.

 

El‘azar da Worms, Il Segreto dell’Opera della Creazione, ECIG: Genova 2002 (traduzione annotata).

 

 

Articoli

 

“L’editoria ebraica a Livorno nel ‘700, tra Toscana granducale e Nord Africa,” in Atti del Convegno Editori, tipografi e Lumi. La stampa a Livorno tra il 1644 e il 1830 (Tipografia Benvenuti & Cavaciocchi: Livorno, 2012), pp. 117-136.

 

“The Port of Livorno and its Nazione Ebrea in the Eighteenth Century: Economic Utility and Political Reforms,” in Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 2 (2011), pp. 45-68.

 

“Hebrew Printing in Eighteenth-Century Livorno: From Government Control to a Free Market,” in Joseph Hacker and Adam Shear, eds., The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy (Penn Press: Philadelphia 2011), pp. 171-195.

 

“Two Jews Walk into a Coffeehouse”: The “Jewish Question,” Utility, and Political Participation in Late Eighteenth-Century Livorno,” in Jewish History 24 (2010), pp. 309-329.

 

 “Tradition and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Jewish Integration in Comparative Perspective,” in Jewish History, 24 (2010), scritto con Federica Francesconi, pp. 235-246.

 

“Privilegi di stampa e acculturazione: editoria ebraica nella Livorno del ‘700,” in Atti del Convegno Livorno 1606-1806: luogo di incontro tra popoli e culture, Allemandi: Torino 2009, pp. 142-156. 

 

“Biblical Poetry, Spinozist Hermeneutics, and Critical Scholarship: The Polemical Activities of Raffaele Rabeni in Early Eighteenth-Century Italy,” in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 8 (2009), pp. 173-198.

 

“Hebrew Printing and Communication Networks between Livorno and North Africa, 1740-1789” in Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (2007-2008), pp. 51-59.

 

“Jewish Modernity in Eighteenth-Century Italy: A Historiographical Survey” in Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts VI (2007), pp. 67-78.

 

“Jewish Scholarship, Science, and the Republic of Letters: Joseph Attias in Eighteenth-Century Livorno”, in ALEPH. Historical Studies in Science & Judaism VII (2007), pp. 97-181.

 

“Among the Mourners of Zion and Jerusalem: Jewish Funerary Monuments in Italian Cemeteries, 1860-1920”, in S. Berresford et al., Italian Memorial Sculpture 1820-1940: A Legacy of Love, Frances Lincoln: Londra 2004, pp. 194-199.

 

 

Recensioni

 

Katherine Aron-Beller, “Jews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598-1638. Studies in Early Modern European History,” Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011, in The Medieval Review 12.20.20 (2012) (online publication).

https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/14756/12.10.20.html?sequence=1

 

Francesca Trivellato, “The Familiarity of Strangers. The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period,” Yale University Press: New Haven 2009, in Sefarad, 70, 2 (2010), pp. 509-512.

 

David Sorkin, “The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna,” Princeton University Press: Princeton NJ 2008, in Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History I (4/2010).

http://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/reviews.php?issue=1&id=1

 

Stefanie B. Siegmund, “The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence. The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community”, Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA 2006, in AJS Review 32.1 (2008), pp. 185-7.

 

Shifra Baruchson-Arbib, “La culture livresque des Juifs d'Italie a la fin de la Renaissance”, Paris 2001, in Jewish Quarterly Review 96.3, Summer 2006.

 

Elliott Horowitz and Moises Orfali, eds. “The Mediterranean and the Jews. Society, Culture and Economy in Early Modern Times”, Bar Ilan University Press: Ramat Aviv 2002, in Sixteenth Century Journal xxxiv/4, 2003, pp. 1132-4.

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