Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / David B. Ruderman
  • Italian Jewish preaching: An overview / Marc Saperstein
  • Judah Moscato: A late renaissance Jewish preacher / Moshe Idel
  • Preaching as mediation between elite and popular cultures: The case of Judah del Bene / Robert Bonfil
  • Jewish preaching and the language of science: The sermons of Azariah Figo / David B. Ruderman
  • Preaching in the Venetian ghetto: The sermons of Leon Modena / Joanna Weinberg
  • Speaking of the dead: The emergence of the eulogy among Italian Jewry of the sixteenth century / Elliott Horowitz.