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Baza, Granada. Model of Genealogical manipulation by Converted Jews
Throughout this work, we will try to offer some brief brushstrokes about the genealogical manipulation developed by families of Jewish-convert origin settled in the city of Baza (Kingdom of Granada), proposing a critical and rigorous analysis of treatises and citizen stories. A legitimation resource based on fraud, also on survival, truly effective for the descendants…
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27/1/23 International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the ABAQ
The Academy of Fine Arts of L’Aquila on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance organized the event “MEMORY 10 x 10 THE STUMPING STONES” curated by Elisabetta Sonnino. dr. Benedetto Ligorio, Ph.D. Post Doc Sapienza University of Rome will present his contribute to the International Hoslocaus Remembrance Day: “Gli ebrei d’Abruzzo in Età Medievale,…
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The Forgot Ritual Poiesis: The “Piyuṭim”on Eros and Thanatos from Puglia
Contribute by: dr. Benedetto Ligorio, Ph.D., Post-Doc., Early Modern History, Department of Philosophy in Villa Mirafiori, Sapienza University of Rome. Full Member of Società di Storia Patria per la Puglia – Palazzo Ateneo. The ancient piyutim composed from the ancient genealogies of the Jewish thinkers and poets who lived in the multiethnic Apulian Cities between…
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Arnaldo Momigliano. Judaism Past and Present
Arnaldo Dante Momigliano (1908–1987) was one of the great twentieth-century historians, and left an indelible mark on both European and American culture. For more than sixty years his influence was felt far beyond the field of ancient history, his chosen area of specialization, particularly as regards intercultural relations in the Hellenistic and Roman world and…
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Lévinas and the Infinite Responsibility. Which Peace for the New Millennium?
Throughout the Western tradition the great question of philosophy has been: “Why Being and not nothing?”. In a different way, Emmanuel Lévinas – starting from the experience of Auschwitz and trying to revitalize his Jewish roots – shows the need to criticize the primacy of the ontology of Being, to re-orient it in view of…
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Capriles reads Maimonides. A mixed Hebrew Toscan book printed in Venice
Contribute by: dr. Benedetto Ligorio, Ph.D. Post-Doc Early Modern History Department of Philosophy in Villa Mirafiori, Sapienza University of Rome Moise Capriles lived for some time in Venice where at the end of the Eighteenth century printed the highly relevant pedagogic volume “Trattato Rituale Morale Toscano del Maimonide” (see attachment) for a correct interpretation of the philosophy and…
European Jewish History Project
Divulgative page of The Sapienza Atheneum Project "Text and Jewish Networks in Europe" (2020) Sapienza University of Rome. Department of Philosophy in Villa Mirafiori. Project prot. n. RM1201729DD78AC9
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