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Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena from the Renaissance to the Emancipation
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The Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies

Federica Francesconi (State University of New York) with David N. Myers (UCLA)

In Invisible Enlighteners, Federica Francesconi explores the society and culture of the Jewish merchants who lived and prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Jewish men and women in Modena lived in an environment that gave rise to unique forms of Renaissance culture, early modern female agency, and Enlightenment practice. Their sociocultural transformation, and eventual legal and political integration, evolved through a complex dialogue between their Italian and Jewish identities, and without the traumatic ruptures or dramatic divides that led to the assimilation and conversion of many Jews elsewhere in Europe.

Federica Francesconi is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her research and publications address the social, religious, and cultural aspects of the early modern history of Jews in Italy, focusing on the multifaceted politics and dynamics of ghetto life. She has held fellowships at the University of Oxford, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Francesconi recently coedited From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times (Brill, 2018) and Jewish Women’s History from Antiquity to the Present (Wayne State University Press, 2021). She is the author of Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). She is the associate editor and book review editor of the journal Jewish History.