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AC CU LTU RATIO N AND ITS DISC ON T E N T S
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ACCULTURATION AND
ITS DISCONTENTS
THE ITALIAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE
BETWEEN EXCLUSION AND
INCLUSION
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Contributors vii
Introduction 3
d av i d n . m y e r s
Index 211
Contributors
david n. myers is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Jew-
ish Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Even the casual observer of the annals of the Jews recognizes the familiar
cultural images of Ashkenaz and Sefarad, represented by noble pietists
and aristocratic courtiers respectively. These cultural images, born in the
Middle Ages and burnished by later historians, survived well into the
twentieth century, particularly in the State of Israel where the Jewish
population was often (and not always accurately) divided into these two
groups.
While the story of Ashkenazim and Sefardim does indeed account for
a good deal of the Jewish historical experience prior to the modern age,
it also reduces that experience to a cultural dichotomy that can be exclu-
sionary. For example, the important and diverse paths of Middle Eastern
Jews – in Baghdad, Sana, or Cairo – are often marginalized or neglected
in accounts whose central focus is the two European monoliths. And
within the received narrative of European Jewish history, the more famil-
iar annals of Ashkenazic and Sephardic history easily overwhelms the his-
torical experience of the community that stands at the centre of our
volume: the Jews of Italy.
Raw numbers play a role here. With a premodern population of some
30,000 souls, Italian Jews were dwarfed by their Iberian and northern co-
religionists. Not only was the Italian Jewish population much smaller
than its Ashkenazic and Sephardic counterparts. It was hardly a concen-
trated community in any meaningful sense. That is, Jews were dispersed
over scores of Italian cities and towns, extending from Trieste in the
north to Sicily in the south, with the most ancient of them, Rome, in the
centre. Customs and religious ritual varied widely from community to
community. The arrival of Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews in the four-
4 David N. Myers
teenth through sixteenth centuries introduced new ritual rites that com-
peted with customs whose origins were properly Italian (and which came
to be collected under the name minhag italki – the Italian rite – despite
shades of local difference among them).
Indeed, the Jewish experience in Italy is marked by a rich diversity –
ethnic, regional, culinary, and even religious (e.g., the presence of
Jewish women slaughterers in Piedmont). And it is this diversity that
raises an important question of a more general nature. Can one speak
of a single Italian Jewish history? Does the local variation among Jewish
communities in Livorno, Modena, Siena, Florence, or Naples permit us
to speak of a cohesive Jewish experience? At one level, we should not
rush to surrender the historian’s mandate to study each historical phe-
nomenon – for example, each community – in its own discrete context.
At another level, though, we can hardly avoid the pull of generalization
– in this case, by imposing a degree of unity onto Italian Jewish history.
Have not generations of historians, from Cecil Roth on, operated under
the assumption of unity in writing of Italian Jews? Have they not noticed
something distinctly Italian, and rightly so, relative to other Jewish
histories – a lustrous range of activities (literary, musical, theatrical,
culinary, and recreational) that is noteworthy in the Jewish historical
experience?
But it is precisely in this sense, as an artifice of unity, that Italian Jewish
history is a microcosm of the larger Jewish historical experience. Schol-
ars often speak of Jewish history as a relatively coherent unit, mindful of
the shared historical consciousness and religious practices of Jews while
suspending awareness, at least temporarily, of the divergences developed
over time and space. The challenge of this volume is to extract the con-
ceptual gain from the premise of historical coherence without ignoring
the diversity and tensions in the Italian Jewish experience. To this end,
the chapters in this book seek to reveal the dialectical relationship
between commonality and divergence in Italian Jewish life, as well as
between Italian Jews and their non-Jewish Italian environment.
What particularly interests us is the way in which Italian Jewish history,
especially in its famous ‘Renaissance’ phase, is exemplary, in both literal
and popular senses. That is, it is extraordinary by virtue of its endurance –
as the longest-standing continuous Jewish community in Europe – and
its dazzling cultural repertoire. And it is typical (although a bit avant la
lettre) by exhibiting a set of social dynamics that seem classically modern
to our eyes. In this latter regard, we should recall that the great Jewish
historian, Salo Baron, argued that early modern Italian Jews adumbrated
both the Enlightenment and Wissenschaft des Judentums.1 We renew this
Introduction 5
is, both in its own right and for understanding the dynamics of Jewish
cultural formation beyond Italy. That history cannot be reduced either
to a story of outright toleration or unrelenting discrimination, nor to
self-imposed insularity or unrestrained interaction. Rather, it manifests a
mixture of competing tendencies, often in the same compact period,
that prompts the scholar to rethink the very oppositions – for example,
between internalist and externalist perspectives – common in narrating
the Jewish past.4 To wit, Alessandro Guetta argues in this volume that
fundamentalist and modern sensibilities coexisted in a well-known early
modern Italian Jewish text. To be sure, such competing impulses have
been presented at other points in Jewish history (e.g., the ancient Greek
empire, medieval Spain). Moreover, they have affected other minority
groups existing within larger majority cultures. But there is a particular
pungency to the unique cultural expressions – liturgical, mystical,
poetic, recreational – that emerged from the Italian Jewish environment.
How might the typical Venetian Jew in 1520 have made sense of the
multiple social and cultural layers of his existence? On the one hand, he
was now confined at night behind the locked gates of the ghetto. Even if
the intention, in the most benign case, was to protect rather than to pun-
ish, ghettoization was perceived not only as an act of constriction, but at
some level, as an insult. Nonetheless, the ghetto walls did not prevent
him from crossing over to Gentile society during the day and engaging in
regular economic, social, and cultural exchange. For some Jews, the
appetite for that exchange may have only increased as a result of the new
restrictions. For others, however, ghettoization may have induced, pace
Bonfil, a new interiority that pushed our Venetian Jew to deepen his own
sense of commitment to and engagement with Jewish tradition and
culture.
Of course, the allures of the surrounding society were still open to
him, at least during daylight hours. And they were destined to change
the face of Jewish culture in his day. In the same year that the ghetto was
imposed in Venice, the first edition of the Talmud, the foundation of the
Jewish Oral Law, was published in Venice. It is true that less than four
decades later, the Talmud would be consigned to the flames in the heat
of the Counter Reformation. But the emergence of a print culture in
early sixteenth-century Italy led to an efflorescence of Jewish letters that
had few parallels in the history of the Jews.
The imposition of the ghetto and the publication of the Talmud in
1516 stand for us as the symbolic poles between which Venetian Jews
forged their collective identity. They mark both the limits and potential
Introduction 7
of that cultural moment for Jews. But in a more enduring sense, these
poles mark off the borders of the process of acculturation for Italian
Jews. The term acculturation, we may recall, was most definitively intro-
duced into the American sociological lexicon by Milton Gordon in 1964
to describe a form of absorption of mainstream cultural norms by a
minority group.5 This absorption did not entail the loss of distinctive fea-
tures by a minority group usually associated with the term assimilation.
Others, most notably Gerson Cohen, have argued that the term assim-
ilation need not be equated with self-abnegation – that, in fact, the kind
of cultural interaction that has often been labelled as ‘assimilation’ is,
surprisingly, indispensable to Jewish survival.6 While much taken by this
claim, we have nonetheless chosen acculturation as the more fitting term
to capture the inevitable, vitalizing, and yet at times debilitating pro-
cesses of cultural exchange in which Jews engaged in Italy.7 It captures
well the multifaceted process of cultural absorption from the non-Jewish
milieu, but lacks the hint of a total surrender of particular identity that
‘assimilation’ bears.
The ‘discontents’ of acculturation here (with obvious Freudian ech-
oes) refer to obstacles, both external and self-imposed, that prevented
Jews from passing unhindered into Italian society and disappearing, in
the words of a later Jewish convert, ‘like a river into the ocean.’ Many
observers have noted the discontents of acculturation in modern Jews,
principally focusing on the German cultural sphere which has often
been seen as the chief testing ground of ‘the project of modernity’ – or,
to borrow again from Gerson Cohen, as the very ‘mirror of modernity.’8
The innovation of this book rests on two interrelated features. First, it
shifts the focus from central to southern Europe as an important site of
Jewish acculturation. This in itself is not a novel move, as Todd Endel-
man and David Ruderman have advocated and then demonstrated a
move from a German-centric emphasis in their work on England.9 But
second, the focus of this book is not restricted to one or two centuries.
Rather, it ranges over five. This wider lens offers a longue durée perspec-
tive on the Italian Jewish past and the dynamics of acculturation that is
rare. Indeed, a number of excellent collections of scholarship have
recently been published on one or another aspect of the Italian Jewish
experience, ranging from Ruderman’s and Giuseppe Veltri’s Cultural
Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy (2004) to Joshua
Zimmerman’s The Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule (2005).10 The
current volume frames a somewhat wider canvas, one that contains the
most vivid colours of the Renaissance age as well as the more solemn
8 David N. Myers
tones of the Fascist era. This resulting picture provides us with a nuanced
understanding of Italian Jews as cultural actors – at once extraordinary
and yet typical in both their Italianness and their Jewishness.
Each of the chapters that follows is a rich case study that reveals the diver-
sity of the Italian Jewish experience. To be sure, these essays do not –
indeed, cannot – encompass the entire range of cultural expression
found among Italian Jews. Such a systematic and massive undertaking
would include appropriately detailed discussion of Italian Jewish inno-
vations in the realms of mysticism, poetry, historical scholarship, and
music, among other pursuits. It would also include treatment of the com-
position, demography, and demise of Jewish communities in that geo-
graphic entity (and terminological anachronism) – Italy – that lacked
political coherence until the agitation of Mazzini and Garibaldi began to
assume concrete form. And yet, our aim here has not been to offer such
a comprehensive sweep. Rather, it has been to disentangle and analyse
distinct strands of the Italian Jewish acculturation process over time, not-
ing both triumphs and failings. In doing so, we seek to mark off that
space between insularity and integration in which Italian Jews have dwelt
throughout much of their millennia-old history.
Part I commences this exploration by exposing the ruptures of accul-
turation in the early modern period. Thus, Benjamin Ravid takes note at
the outset of his essay of the formal legal restrictions placed upon Jews by
the City of Venice, including and especially through the imposition of the
ghetto. But Ravid also shows, following Brian Pullan and others, that
these restrictions were neither unique to, nor uniquely onerous upon,
the Jews. Moreover, the physical isolation intended by the creation of
the ghetto hardly prevented economic, social, and cultural exchange
between Jews and Christians. Not only did Jews leave the ghetto behind to
engage in a wide range of daily activities, but non-Jews regularly made
their way to Jewish merchants, teachers, even synagogues to buy, learn, lis-
ten, and compare.
Whether this interaction rises to the level of ‘tolerance’ by modern
standards is a different matter. If there was a Renaissance-era tolerance at
all, it surely rested, as Simone Luzzatto understood well in crafting his
apology for the Jews from 1638, on economic utility more than on philo-
sophical principle or altruism. But if a fully articulated tolerance was not
necessarily present in this age (and overrated in its later form anyway,
according to various modern critics), there was an ongoing and often
robust cultural exchange – and, as Kenneth Stow shows, a subtle process
Introduction 9
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