Filosofia e qabbalah. Elia Benamozegh (1823-1900), un pensatore inattuale

Alessandro Guetta XV (2020), 1 Saggio Elia Benamozegh (Livorno 1823, ivi 1900), philosopher, biblical exegete, teacher at the Rabbinical College, was an original and prolific thinker. At the time the qabbalah or esoteric Jewish tradition was commonly considered as the result of an era of intellectual and religious decadence by the protagonists of Jewish studies, […]

Jewish Reform in 19th Century Italy

Asher Salah XV (2020), 1 Saggio This paper examines the development of Jewish reform projects in the frame of the political emancipation of Italian Jews and its role in shaping their religious debate in the 19th century. Jewish reform movements arose in Europe as a part of a larger debate concerning the necessity of improving […]

La tradizione politica ebraica in Italia tra XV e XVII secolo

Guido Bartolucci XV (2020), 1 Saggio In the Italian peninsula, between 1400 and 1600, some Jewish thinkers (Yochanan Alemanno, Yitzchaq Abravanel, David de’ Pomis e Simone Luzzatto) elaborated a political thought that combined the biblical and post-biblical tradition with the new sources that humanistic culture was making available, also providing a particular reading of political […]

Luzzatto’s Socrates and the History of Jewish Philosophy

Josef Stern XV (2020), 1 Saggio This essay addresses the question where Luzzatto’s Socrate fits into the history of Jewish philosophy. For most of the paper, it argues that what characterizes Jewish philosophy within the general category of philosophy is not the language in which it is composed, the ethnic or religious identity of its […]