issue 24/n.2 (2023)

Focus

Jewish Masculinities, 1200-1800

edited by Francesca Bregoli

• Introduction by Francesca Bregoli                                        

• Conversion and Masculinity in Thirteenth-Century England: One Man’s Decision to Leave the Priesthood for Judaism by Rebekah Sewell                                        
• Between Rabbinic and Knightly Masculinities: Constructing Gendered Identities Among Jewish Young Men in Medieval Ashkenaz by Eyal Levinson                                        
• “We Are No Soldiers”: Jewish Unmanliness in English Renaissance Drama by Becky S. Friedman                                        
• On Kabbalah and “Wasted Seed” in Seventeenth-Century Poland: A Chapter in the History of the Male Jewish Body by Avinoam J. Stillman                                        
• Sodomy, Homosociality and Friendship among Jewish and Christian Men: The Proceedings Against Lazarro de Norsa (Modena, 1670) by Katherine Aron-Beller                                        
• Paternal Affliction: Emotions and Masculinity among Eighteenth-Century Italian Jewish Merchants by Francesca Bregoli                                        

Research Paths

Resilient Women, Rebuilt Lives: A Study of JDC’s Work in Szeged after the Holocaust by Dóra Pataricza                                        
From Rabbi to Reviser: Once More on Giovanni Antonio Costanzi (1702-1786), a Convert in the Service of the Holy Office by Miriam Benfatto