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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'etā moderna (comunitā italiane e sefardite);

Storia del libro ebraico;

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

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

 

PUBBLICAZIONI

Articoli, monografie

1. “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.

 

2. “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.

 

3. “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.

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

5. "Jewish Scholarship, Science, and the Republic of Letters: Joseph Attias in Eighteenth-Century Livorno", in ALEPH. Historical Studies in Science & Judaism VII (2007), pp. 97-18.

6. "Among the Mourners of Zion and Jerusalem: Jewish Funerary Monuments in Italian Cemeteries, 1860-1920", in AA.VV., Italian Memorial Sculpture 1820-1940, London 2004, pp. 194-199.

7. El'azar from Worms, Il Segreto dell'Opera della Creazione, Genova ECIG: 2002, Traduzione, prefazione e note.

Ha co-curato la mostra Sonnets of Celebration. Hebrew Wedding Poems and Riddles in honor of the Bride and Groom, tenutasi al Jewish Theological Seminary di New York dal 17/3/2002 al 2/8/2002. La mostra č parzialmente visitabile on-line all’indirizzo: http://www.jtsa.edu/library/exhib/sonnets/index.shtml.

 

Recensioni

1. Recensione di 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 (2008), pp. 185-7.

2. Recensione di Shifra Baruchson-Arbib, "La culture livresque des Juifs d'Italie a la fin de la Renaissance", Paris 2001, in Jewish Quarterly Review 96.3

3. Recensione di Elliott Horowitz and Moises Orfali, ed., The Mediterranean and the Jews. Society, Culture and Economy in Early Modern Times, Bar Ilan University Press, in Sixteenth Century Journal xxxiv/4, 2003, pp. 1132-4.

 

In stampa

1. “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 (Livorno, 2010).

 

2. “Hebrew Printing in Eighteenth-Century Livorno: From Government Control to a Free Market,” in Joseph Hacker and Adam Shear, eds., The Jewish Book: Material Texts and Comparative Contexts (Philadelphia, 2010).

3. “Italian Jews, 1650-1815,” in Jonathan Karp and Adam Sutcliffe eds., Cambridge History of Judaism: Early Modern Period (Cambridge 2010).

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