Below is a bibliography of books, articles, and links related to Kaborycha’s lecture “The New Jerusalem: Florence, the Medici, and the Jews during the Renaissance.” These works concentrate specifically on the Jewish experience in Florence during the 15th century, prior to the creation of the Florentine ghetto.
Beitchman, Philip. Alchemy of the word: Cabala of the Renaissance, Albany : State University of New York Press, 1998.
Bowd, Stephen. An annotated list of Italian Renaissance humanists, their writings about Jews, and involvement in Hebrew studies, ca. 1440-ca.1540, Edinburgh DataShare, University of Edinburgh, 2016
La Cultura ebraica all’epoca di Lorenzo il Magnifico, ed. Bemporad and Zatelli, Firenze : L.S. Olschki, 1998.
Blau, Joseph Leon. The Christian Interpretation of the Cabala in the Renaissance, New York: Columbia University, 1944.
Bonfil, Robert. Jewish life in Renaissance Italy, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Cassuto, Umberto. Gli ebrei a Firenze nell’età del Rinascimento. Firenze, Tip. Galletti e Cocci, 1918.
Jewish culture in early modern Europe: essays in honor of David B. Ruderman, edited by Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Adam Shear, and Elchanan Reiner. Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
Fantozzi Micali, Osanna. La segregazione urbana: ghetti e quartieri ebraici in Toscana: Firenze, Siena, Pisa, Livorno Firenze : Alinea, 1995.
Fubini, R. ‘L’ebraismo nei riflessi della cultura umanistica. Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti, Annio da Viterbo’, Medioevo e Rinascimento, 2 (1988): 283-324
Giovanni Pico e la cabbala, ed. Lelli, Convegno internazionale su “Giovanni Pico e la cabbala,” Firenze: Leo S. Olschki editore, 2014.
Luzzati, Michele. La Casa dell’Ebreo: saggi sugli Ebrei a Pisa e in Toscana nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento, Pisa: Nistri-Lischi, 1985.
Luzzati, Michele and Carlo Galasso, “Primi appunti su Girolamo Savonarola e gli ebrei dello stato fiorentino,” in Studi Savonaroliani, ed. Gian Carlo Garfagnini, Florence, 1996, pp. 35-41.
Metzger, Thérèse and Mendel. Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982.
Milano, Attilio. Storia degli ebrei in Italia, Torino: Einaudi, 1963.
Owen Hughes, Diane. “Distinguishing Signs: Ear-Rings, Jews and Franciscan Rhetoric in the Italian Renaissance City,” in Past & Present, No. 112 (Aug., 1986), pp. 3-59.
Poliakov, Leon. Jewish Bankers and the Holy See: From the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Century, London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul, 1977.
Roth, Cecil. The Jews in the Renaissance. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1959. [1st ed]
Ruderman, David B. Early modern Jewry : a new cultural history, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Cultural intermediaries: Jewish intellectuals in early modern Italy, ed. Ruderman, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Salvadori, Roberto G. Gli ebrei di Firenze: dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Firenze: Giuntina, 2000.
Shatzmiller, Joseph. Cultural exchange: Jews, Christians, and art in the medieval marketplace, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.
Shulvass, Moses A., The Jews in the world of the Renaissance. Leiden, Brill, 1973.
Shulvass, Moses A. Jewish population in renaissance Italy, New York : Conference on Jewish Relations, 1951.
Sparti, Barbara. Jewish dancing-masters and “Jewish dance” in Renaissance Italy (Guglielmo Ebreo and beyond), in Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review 20,1-2 (2000) pp. 11-23.
Hebraic aspects of the Renaissance: sources and encounters, edited by Ilana Zinguer, Abraham Melamed, and Zur Shalev. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011.
Christian Hebraism: the study of Jewish culture by Christian scholars in medieval and early modern times, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Library, 1988.
LINKS
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Jews and the Arts in Medieval Europe
Map of Jewish expulsions and resettlement areas in Europe 1100-1500 from A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
The Jewish Museum, New York City