From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: Lesley, Arthur M. | COPYRIGHT 1999 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Yohanan Alemanno, Edizione, traduzione e commento acura di Fabrizio Lelli. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki editore, 1995. (Quademi di <>, XXI.) 187 pp. IL 48,000. ISBN: 88 222 4315 3.

Renaissance is not the most suitable characterization of Jewish history in western and central Europe between 1350 and 1600. From the outbreak of the plague, in 1348, until ghettoization, beginning in 1555, European Jewish history was unusually catastrophic, even by its own lugubriou...