Ashkenazi Jews in Italy during the long Renaissance (15th–17th centuries). New Perspectives on History and Culture

9:30-10:00 – Registration

10:00-10:30 – Opening and Institutional Greetings
Riccardo Zucchi, Rector of the University of Pisa
Maurizio Gabbrielli, President of the Jewish Community of Pisa

10:30 – 11:00 – Alessandra Veronese (University of Pisa), Introductory lecture

Ashkenazi Jews in the Archives I
Chair: Mafalda Toniazzi (University of Pisa)
11:00 – 13:10

Renata Segre (Independent Scholar),
Mestre e la Terra Santa: due temi di storia ebraica / Mestre and the Holy Land: Two Themes of Jewish History

Angela Möschter (Independent Scholar),
The Jews of Treviso in the 15th Century: Examples for New Concepts of Space and Culture

13:10 – 14:30 – Lunch

Ashkenazi Jews in the Archives II
Chair: Mafalda Toniazzi (University of Pisa)
14:30 – 16:20

Rachele Scuro (Ca’ Foscary University of Venice),
The Ashkenazim in Venice and the Venetian State (15th-16th centuries): from the Terraferma to the Capital

Pierre Savy (Université Gustave Eiffel),
Manno and his Relatives: an Ashkenazi Success Story in Renaissance Italy

16:20-16:40 – Coffee Break

‘Italo-Ashkenazi’ Jews in the Italian Peninsula and Abroad
Chair: Serena Di Nepi (Sapienza University of Rome)
16:40-18:40

Rainer Barzen (University of Münster),
Jews from Ashkenaz or Ashkenazi Jews? Self-Designation and Self-Perception of Jews from the German Lands in Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Giacomo Corazzol (CNRS-IRHT, Paris),
The Influence of Ashkenazi Immigration and Halakhic Culture in Late Medieval and Early-Modern Candia

Alexandre Beider (Independent Scholar),
Names Used by Ashkenazic Jews in Italy during the Renaissance

19:30 – Dinner

The Languages and Literature of Ashkenazi Jewry in Italy
Chair: Serena Grazzini (University of Pisa)
9:30-11:00

Michael Ryzhik (Bar-Ilan University),
Yiddish Lemmata in Elye Bokher’s HaTishbi and David de’ Pomis’ Tsemah David

Claudia Rosenzweig (Bar-Ilan University),
Additions to the Catalogue ‘Yiddish in Italia’

11:00-11:30 – Coffee Break

Halakhah and Minhag
Chair: Rav Riccardo Di Segni
11:30-13:00

Edward Fram (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva),
Ashkenazic Self-Identity in Italy: Evidence from a Sixteenth-Century Yiddish Legal Handbook

Avriel Bar-Levav (The Open University of Israel),
From Italy to Ashkenaz: The Case of Jewish Deathbed Literature

13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch

Ashkenazi Culture
Chair: Fabrizio Franceschini (University of Pisa)
15:00 – 17:00

Omer Ahituv (Bar-Ilan University),
The Manuscript Ginzburg 109 by Menakhem Olderdorf as a Window into Italian Ashkenazi Culture

Rav Riccardo Di Segni,
Genes, Genius, and Blood in Ashkenazi Communities

Avery Gosfield (Independent Scholar),
A Musical Look at the Yiddish Poems in Ms. Canonici Or. 12

!7:00 – 17:30 – Coffee Break

Keynote Lecture
Chair: Claudia Rosenzweig (Bar-Ilan University)
17:30 – 18:30

Lucia Raspe (Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute, University of Duisburg-Essen),
The German-Jewish Emigration to Fifteenth-Century Italy and its Impact on the Ashkenazic Canon in Print

19:30 – Dinner

Ashkenazi Jews and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe
Chair: Alessandra Veronese (University of Pisa)
9:00-11:00

Olga Sixtová (Charles University, Prague),
The Italian Connection. New Printers Appearing in Prague around 1600 and the Goods They Smuggled

Andrea Schatz (King’s College, London),
Ashkenazic Trajectories: Reading Farissol’s Orhot ‘olam in Kraków and Prague

Pavel Sládek (Charles University, Prague),
Repeated Editions as an Indicator of Cultural Change, Progress and Stagnation: Italy and the North (1550–1630)

!1:00-11:30 – Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 – Round Table

13:00 – Lunch

In the Afternoon: Jewish Pisa Tour (Cemetery, Synagogue, Historical places)