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[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1987]

ISBN10: 0871314843, ISBN13: 9780871314840, [publisher: M. Evans and Company, Inc., New York] Hardcover First Edition xvii, 313 pages, [14] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Maps on lining papers. Translation of: Storia del ghetto di Venezia. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. Size: 8vo
[Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1987]
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New York M. Evans & Company 1987 First printing Hardcover Fine in Near fine jacket First printing, 1987, hardcover with cloth backed boards in dust jacket, octavo, 313pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild rubbing, toning.

New York M. Evans and Company, Inc 1987 First Printing [Stated] Hardcover Very good in Very good jacket xvii, [1], 313, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. "From"--an Appreciation by Elie Wiesel. Footnotes. Illustrations. Glossary of Hebrew Terms (Raffaele Grassini). General Bibliography of Reference Works. Index. Minor edge soiling. Riccardo Calimani (born 1946 in Venice, Italy) is a writer and historian, specializing in Italian and European Judaism and Jewish history. A graduate of Philosophy of science at the University of Venice, he worked many years a director of TV programs at RAI for the Venetian Region. Among his many works are Dialogo sull'ebraismo (Dialogue on Judaism); The Ghetto of Venice (Costantino Pavan Prize), Ebrei e pregiudizio (Jews and Prejudice, Storia dell'ebreo errante (A History of the Wandering Jew), L'Inquisizione a Venezia (Inquisition in Venice), Passione e tragedia (Passion and Tragedy), Ebrei eterni inquieti (Jews, Eternally Restless). In 1986 he received the Prize for Culture from the Italian Parliament and in 1997 the European Prize for Culture. Derived from a Kirkus review: This detailed study traces the Venetian Ghetto from its 16th-century beginnings to the Fascist depredations of 1943-45. Calimani not only untangles the complicated social, religious, political, and cultural strands that make up the story and weaves them into a colorful tapestry, he brings to life scores of scholars and scoundrels, financiers and fanatics who made their ...

ISBN10: 0871314843, ISBN13: 9780871314840, [publisher: M. Evans and Company, Inc, New York] Hardcover First Edition xvii, [1], 313, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. "From" --an Appreciation by Elie Wiesel. Footnotes. Illustrations. Glossary of Hebrew Terms (Raffaele Grassini). General Bibliography of Reference Works. Index. Minor edge soiling. Riccardo Calimani (born 1946 in Venice, Italy) is a writer and historian, specializing in Italian and European Judaism and Jewish history. A graduate of Philosophy of science at the University of Venice, he worked many years a director of TV programs at RAI for the Venetian Region. Among his many works are Dialogo sull'ebraismo (Dialogue on Judaism); The Ghetto of Venice (Costantino Pavan Prize), Ebrei e pregiudizio (Jews and Prejudice, Storia dell'ebreo errante (A History of the Wandering Jew), L'Inquisizione a Venezia (Inquisition in Venice), Passione e tragedia (Passion and Tragedy), Ebrei eterni inquieti (Jews, Eternally Restless). In 1986 he received the Prize for Culture from the Italian Parliament and in 1997 the European Prize for Culture. Derived from a Kirkus review: This detailed study traces the Venetian Ghetto from its 16th-century beginnings to the Fascist depredations of 1943-45. Calimani not only untangles the complicated social, religious, political, and cultural strands that make up the story and weaves them into a colorful tapestry, he brings to life scores of scholars and ...