Weekly programs
Week 1. From the Ancient time to the Middle Ages
| Monday, 8th June 2015 | Tuesday, 9th June 2015 | Wednesday, 10th June 2015 | Thursday, 11th June 2015 | Friday, 12th June 2015 | |
| 9:00-10:15 | The History of the Hebrew Bible | The Jewish settlements in Central and Northern Italy in the High Middle Ages (6th -12th centuries) | Visit to Florence: the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana | The first printed edition of the most famous Hebrew Grammar Books | Discussion & students’ presentations |
| 10:30-11:45 | The Italian Jews in Late Antiquity | The Jewish settlements in Southern Italy (6th – 12th centuries) | The first printed edition of the most famous Hebrew Grammar Books | ||
| Lunch Break | |||||
| 13:30-14:45 | The Hebrew manuscripts of the Mediceo-Laurenziana Library of Florence | The Hebrew Manuscripts of the Mediceo-Laurenziana Library | The Jews of Central and Northern Italy in the Late Middle Ages | ||
| 15:00-16:15 | The Masoretic Text | The Hebrew Novel in the Middle Ages | The Hebrew Novel in the Middle Ages |
Week 2. From the Middle Ages to the Emancipation
| Monday, 15th June 2015 | Tuesday, 16th June 2015 | Wednesday, 17th June 2015 | Thursday, 18th June 2015 | Friday, 19th June 2015 | |
| 9:00-10:15 | The Jews of Tuscany in the Late Middle Ages | The sources for the history of Italian Jews in the Renaissance | Visit to Rome: the Ghetto (alternatively: visit to the Jewish cemetery of Pisa and excursion to Pitigliano) | The Emancipation: a European overview | Discussion & students’ presentations |
| 10:30-11:45 | The Italian Jewry of Southern Italy: Late Middle Ages | The sources for the history of Italian Jews in the Middle Ages (with a visit to the State Archives of Pisa or Lucca) | The Emancipation: the Italian case | ||
| Lunch Break | |||||
| 13:30-14:45 | Sephardic diaspora and the Italian world: an outline | Counter-Reformation and Italian Jews: Culture and circulation of culture | Creating a unified Italy (1848-1870). Italian and Jews: the self-fashioning of a minority | ||
| 15:00-16:15 | Counter-Reformation and Italian Jews: Institutional context and social practice | The Sephardic network: commerce and globalization | Notes on the cultural and political context |
Week 3. From Emancipation to present times
| Monday, 22nd June 2015 | Tuesday, 23rd June 2015 | Wednesday, 24th June 2015 | Thursday, 25th June 2015 | Friday, 26th June 2015 | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Livorno and Florence, two Tuscan communities | Italian Jews from Fascism to the Shoah | Visit to Fossoli: the Deportation | Italy and the aliyah bet | Guest Speaker |
| 10:30-11:45 | Italian Jews and the First World War | The myth of the good Italian | The Italian Jews after Fascism | ||
| Lunch Break | |||||
| 13:30-14:45 | Italian Jews’ reaction to Zionism | The Catholic Church and the Jews | The Italian Jewish identity: what now? | Discussion & students’ presentations | |
| 15:00-16:15 | Italian Jews and Fascism | The reintegration of the Italian Jews | The Italian Jews and Israel: a honey moon? |