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With Prof. Kenneth Stow discussing the Diary of Anna of Rome and the book he wrote about the diary

SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein

Prof. Kenneth Stow discusses the historical significance of the Diary of Anna of Rome and its publication.

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hi everyone welcome to another edition of the Swarm chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined by Professor Kenneth Stow who is Professor of Meritus of Jewish history at the University of Kaa in Israel and he has been a visiting professor at Yale the University of Michigan University of Washington Smith college the University of Toronto and the pontifical Gregorian University he has he founded the journal Jewish history and served as its editor for 25 years until 2012 and the book we're going to be discussing today is a relatively recent discussing today is a relatively recent publication a few years Anna and tranquilo Catholic anxiety and Jewish protest in the age of revolutions he also wrote theaters about culturation the Roman ghetto in the 16th century as well as alienated minority the Jewish the Jews of medieval Latin Europe as well as a number of other books and and and many article as well so thank you Professor sto for joining me today well thank you very much for inviting me and I'm really delighted to talk about this book and about Italian jewelry that most book and about Italian jewelry that most people don't even know exists they think they're when in fact they're strictly uh and they have their own rituals and they are they have a certain distinction because they are the only Jews in Europe who you really can't call immigrants you can't call Italian Jews immigrants because they were there at the time of J Caesar in fact probably for hundred or so years before and in

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  1. 0:02hi everyone welcome to another edition of the Swarm chatter podcast on this episode of the
  2. 6:11go in the Po River Valley which is flat and from there he had to cross
  3. 12:26Rome directly anyway between one thing or another I finished the dissertation and finally to go
  4. 18:41anybody to do anything else he was he was such a great scholar and such a
  5. 24:56closed quarters but it never and and of course the first ghetto itself is in Venice
  6. 31:10other people well it could be if a father converted and there were and we know
  7. 37:22remember anything in particular because you just reread it U and uh and and and she
  8. 43:40offered those women would be dragged immediately into the house of converts and held there till
  9. 49:53pistols drawn they did not even give me the courtesy or the time to change my
  10. 56:01acceptable then it's not so fearsome is it what you know is not fearful so that's

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