"On Wings of Song" Concert Schedule

Please note that this schedule is subject to change.

Sun Jun 8 Boston, 7.30pm, Casey Theatre, Regis College
Tue Jul 1 Milan/Casale Monferrato, 9.00pm, Casale Monferrato synagogue
Wed Jul 2 Sabionetta, 9.00pm, Teatro All'Antica
Sun Jul 6 Venice, 9.00pm, Chiesa Santa Maria dei Miracoli
Tue Jul 8 Florence, 8.00pm, La Sinagoga di Firenze
Wed Jul 9 Siena/Cortona, 9.30pm, Teatro Signorelli
Thu Jul 10 Rome, 9.00pm, Teatro Sala Baldini, Piazza Campitelli
Fri Jul 11 Rome, 4.30pm, Chiesa S. Maria della Scala, Trastevere

Lecture Series at Hebrew College

For more information, contact the Hebrew College Center for Adult Jewish Learning at cajl@hebrewcollege.edu or 617-559-8709.

1 May	Rome and the Jews Prof. Philip Cunningham (Boston College)
8 May	Sacred Bridges Prof. Joshua Jacobson (Northeastern University) and The Zamir Chorale of Boston
22 May	Shylock and the Jewish Merchants of Venice Prof. Ben Ravid (Brandeis University)
29 May	Double Vision: Art in Italian Renaissance Jewish and Christian Communities Prof. Barbara Wisch (Cortland University)
12 June	Salamone Rossi Ebreo: Jewish Music in the Italian Renaissance Prof. Joshua Jacobson (Northeastern University)

Background Articles

A Timeline of Italian Jewish Music

Salamone Rossi, the Mystery Man of Jewish Art Music Composers
by Prof. Don Harrán

Ghetto: A Contribution of Italian Jewry to Everyday Discourse
by Prof. Benjamin Ravid

Salamone Rossi Hebreo
by Prof. Joshua Jacobson

In Italian Dust, Signs of a Past Jewish Life
by Andrée Brooks, The New York Times (May 15, 2003).
NOTE: This link will take you to the New York Times web site

Recommended Reading

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Cecil Roth, The Jews in the Renaissance
Don Harran, Salamone Rossi (Oxford 1999)
Robert C. Davis and Benjamin Ravid, The Jews of Early Modern Venice (John Hopkins University Press 2001)
Robert Bonfil, Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy (U Cal. 1994)
David Ruderman, editor, Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (NYU Press 1992)
B. Garvin and B. Cooperman, editors, The Jews of Italy (Univ. Press of Maryland 2000)
Kate Simon, A Renaissance Tapestry: The Gonzaga of Mantua (Harper & Row 1988)
David I. Kertzer, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
Dora Liscia Bemporad (Editor), Francesca Brandes, Tuscany Jewish Itineraries: Place, History and Art
Francesca Brandes (Editor), Venice and Environs Jewish Itineraries: Places, History and Art

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