The Most Tenacious of Minorities - by Sara Reguer (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Since arriving in Rome more than 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity. This book traces the foundations of their community, focusing on their economic, intellectual, and social lives as they moved between northern and southern Italy. Over the centuries these localized Italian groups were reinforced with the arrival of German, Provencal, Sephardic, and-most recently-Ashkenazi and Middle Eastern Jews. Surviving religious persecution, ghettoization, and the Holocaust, the Jews contributed to Italian society when they could. Supplemented by maps, illustrations, sidebars, and primary sources, this book is a scholarly yet popular overview of a minority group that is proud to be Italian and equally proud to be Jewish.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Few Jewish communities in the Diaspora are as old as the one in Italy, and that's one of the reasons Reguer's account is well worth reading. She takes us on a journey, full of promise, peril and renewal, that begins during the Roman empire and ends in present-day Italy. It's quite a trip."--Sheldon Kirshner, The Times of Israel, 5 Feb 2017 "The Times of Israel"<br><br><p>"Reguer tells her 2,000-year-old story with clarity and ease. Her organization is excellent. She is modest. She does not get bogged down in minutia to display her erudition, or suggest she has discovered information that is new to Italian Jewish scholarship. We are fortunate to have this readable book."</p><p>--Andrée Aelion Brooks, Yale University, <i>Sephardic Horizons</i></p><br><br>A thoroughly researched and engagingly written presentation.--Book News, Inc.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Sara Reguer (PhD Columbia University) is chair of the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is the co-editor and co-author of The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times (2003, with Reeva Simon and Michael Laskier).
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