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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Italy: Of Gardens and Ghettos.
June 1-21, 2007
Study Abroad Office
P: 301.314.7746
studyabr@umd.edu
Jews have lived in Italy for more than two millennia, and their history reveals
a fascinating panorama of the Jewish experience in the West. After a brief
survey of ancient times, we will focus our attention on medieval and
Renaissance communities, especially in Tuscany: Jewish bankers, poets and
philosophers, merchants, doctors and messianic pretenders, heretics and
religious martyrs
—these and others will all make their appearance as we trace the rise of the
ghettos and the ultimate emancipation of Italian Jewry. Students will have the
opportunity to participate in side trips to Pisa and Siena, as well as an
optional three-day visit to Venice at the end of the program.
Salvatore Luria
Gisella Levi Cahnman
Natalia Ginzburg
Vito Volterra
Piero Sraffa
