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Angelo Scoccianti
1640–1730
Angelo Scoccianti was a cabinetmaker from Cupramontana, Italy, who made intricate Torah ark doors and church altars.
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Sephardic Synagogue (Pesaro, Italy)
Home to a Jewish community from at least the thirteenth century, Pesaro later became the refuge of Portuguese and Spanish Jews in the sixteenth century. In 1642, a few years after the town’s Jews were…
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Jews on the Move: Early Modern Jewish Migration
1500–1750
The geography of Jewish settlement shifted dramatically in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Early Modern Italy: Where East and West Meet
1500–1750
Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and Marranos encountered each other in Italian cities, developing community structures that later influenced Jewish communal organization throughout the western world.
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Early Modern Visual and Material Culture
1500–1750
Early modern Jewish visual culture flourished, with illuminated manuscripts, ornate synagogues, and portraiture alongside increasing non-Jewish interest in Jewish customs and greater Jewish self-representation.