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Simeon Solomon: A Pre-Raphaelite Jewish Queer Artist in London.
He started to paint more scenes from literature and images of women painted in classical settings including the watercolors in the collection of the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Liverpool. Solomon’s paintings of contemporary religious life is a dominant theme. Among his studies, he represented men often Clergyman and Rabbis in church interiors. A great…
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“Spinozian Voices”. Symposium of Studies, Book Presentation and Annual Assembly.
Contribute by: dr. Giovanni Croce, President of the Societas Spinozana Italy Organising committee: dr. Alessio Lembo, University of Urbino dr. Francesco Toto, University of Roma Tre Conference program: dr. Domenico Berni, Roma Tre University: Il linguaggio di Spinoza. dr. Benedetta Catoni Sapienza University of Rome: Ricerche per un lessico della Tolleranza in Spinoza Book Presentation:…
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The Multiethnic Modernity. Coexistence of Jews and Christians in Renaissance Oria.
The second Jewish presence in Oria allows an overview of the roles of the Jews in southern Italy and of how this minority is closely interconnected with the rest of the social fabric: if the early medieval community is distinguished by its literary and philosophical relevance, the fifteenth-century was relevant for its socio-economic role. The…
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When Spinoza Met Marx. Experiments in Nonhumanist Activity
Contribute by: prof. Tracie Matysik, Associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and Fellow of the Brian F. Bolton Professorship in Secular Studies. Tracie Marysik, When Spinoza Met Marx. Experiments in Nonhumanist Activity, Chicago University Press, Chicago 2022. Karl Marx was a fiery revolutionary theorist who heralded the imminent demise of…
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The Citadel of Concentrationary Music
The Citadel of Concentrationary Music represents the corollary of the extensive search of music scores written in concentration Camps and other places of imprisonment all over the world between 1933 and 1953, conducted over the last 30 years (and it’s not over yet) by the italian pianist and researcher Francesco Lotoro as well as of…
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The Apulian ‘Cristiani novelli’ community in Venice in the Middle Ages.
The Apulian Cristiani novelli were descendants of Jews who had been forcibly baptized in the late 13th century following the Angevin conquest of the kingdom of Sicily. According to some estimates between 6,000 and 8,000 Jews were involved in the largest mass conversion outside the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. This community of converts lived mainly…
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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