The Creative Jews of Sicily | Dr. Katherine Aron-Beller | 16.1.2022

The session on Sicilian Jewry will reveal the little known and almost forgotten cultural heritage of Jewish communities on the island that have long ceased to exist and their memory has almost faded away. The Jews’ situation in medieval Sicily was a highly fluid one, riddled with ambivalence, the blurring of boundaries, cooperation as well as resistance, and a creative responsiveness to the “other” in Sicilian society. A few Jews were involved in medicine, trade, astronomy and mathematics, but most of them were poor artisans, craftsmen and laborers or farm-hands. We will meet the famous messianic figure of Sicily and some of the Jews who supported him.
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מוזמנות ומוזמנים להרשם לרשימת התפוצה שלנו ולהנות מעדכונים על כל האירועים והתכניות שלנו https://www.bac.org.il/newsletter

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