Papers by Sofia Locatelli
Meldar: Revista internacional de estudios sefardíes, 4, 2023
The Sephardic community of Venice left its mark
on the culture, literature, and traditions of t... more The Sephardic community of Venice left its mark
on the culture, literature, and traditions of the
Jewish people of the Lagoon. This heritage can also
be found in the Ancient Jewish Cemetery of the
Lido. Sephardic tombstones are notable not only
for their architectural style but also for the
Sephardi script, the bilingual epitaphs, and the
coats of arms engraved on the stone. The
Sephardim were a valuable resource in the
Venetian economy and commerce. They also
founded a charity fraternity, whose statute was
published in 1712 in both Portuguese and Italian.
The study of tombstones and historical sources
helps us reconstruct the lives and events of the
community members as well as understand
important aspects of the literary, artistic, and
linguistic culture of the Sephardic Jews in the
diaspora.
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Materia Giudaica, 2021
The Books within books project aims to recover and catalogue fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscr... more The Books within books project aims to recover and catalogue fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts reused during the Early Modern Age as covers of books and registers. This article presents the latest results of this research, which involved the main institutions of the city of Reggio Emilia: the State Archive and the Panizzi Library. The unpublished collection of fragments preserved in the archives of Reggio Emilia enriches the precious heritage of the Italian Genizah and provides new trails of investigation for the study of the Hebrew fragments in the Emilia-Romagna area.
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Insula Fulcheria, 2021
Nel corso del Medioevo e della prima età moderna la città di Cremona e la sua provincia sono stat... more Nel corso del Medioevo e della prima età moderna la città di Cremona e la sua provincia sono state popolate da un considerevole gruppo di Ebrei che hanno partecipato attivamente allo sviluppo economico e culturale del territorio. Tracce inaspettate di questa presenza si ritrovano nelle biblioteche e negli archivi della zona e sono costituite da frammenti di manoscritti ebraici medievali riusati in epoca moderna come copertine di volumi e registri. La biblioteca Clara Gallini di Crema conserva un significativo patrimonio di frammenti inediti, così come alcuni archivi del cremasco. Il contributo proposto mira a esporre i risultati delle ultime ricerche e a illustrare le caratteristiche e il valore dei frammenti ebraici ritrovati.
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The books of the dead of the Jewish Community of Venice are a valuable source to study the histor... more The books of the dead of the Jewish Community of Venice are a valuable source to study the history of the Ancient Jewish Cemetery of the Lido. The acts of these minutes were recorded by the Venetian Jewish community over the years 1601 to 1839, but also by the Venice municipal authority (the Provveditori alla sanità), for the years 1631 to 1765. They allow us to get important information about the death of all the people buried there, such as the reason of the death, the age, and the area of the Ghetto where the death happened. They also show the names of the doctors who worked in the Ghetto and they help to recover the information that are no longer readable on the tombstones.
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The work of my PhD is a catalogue of the all 1234 tombstones (fragments included) that still make... more The work of my PhD is a catalogue of the all 1234 tombstones (fragments included) that still make up the “Ancient” cemetery of the Lido. For every gravestone, I create a detailed form which in most cases includes the transcription and translation of the epitaph and also outlines the architectural style of the tomb, the kind of stone used and an assessment of his condition, a description of the emblem which sometimes was engraved on the stone, a paleographic analysis of the writing, a note about the poetic and grammatical features of the text and a historical commentary, which mainly concerns the news reported in the community dead registers.
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The “Luciano Benincasa” Library of Ancona preserves five unpublished ketubbot, marriage contracts... more The “Luciano Benincasa” Library of Ancona preserves five unpublished ketubbot, marriage contracts, four from Ancona and one from Leghorn. In this paper they are studied from a textual and artistic point of view, analyzing the names of the groom and the bride, of the witnesses, the date, the measurements of the parchment, the material, and the writing with a description of the decoration.
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Il presente volume, che costituisce un importante contributo allo studio della storia e dell’arte... more Il presente volume, che costituisce un importante contributo allo studio della storia e dell’arte ebraica italiana, illustra 72 ketubbot inedite, per lo più italiane, delle quali 68 appartenenti alla collezione di Judaica di Gianbeppe Fornasa e 4 conservate presso il Fondo Campori della Biblioteca Estense di Modena. I dati contenuti nelle loro schede descrittive ci forniscono preziose informazioni su un momento significativo della vita delle comunità ebraiche italiane dei secoli XVII-XX, oltre a svelarci le tendenze artistiche in voga nelle varie epoche e nelle diverse città. Quello dell’arte ebraica è certamente un campo con ancora molti materiali da esplorare. Carattere precipuo dei contratti matrimoniali ebraici è, per la natura stessa del documento, quello di fornirci sempre la data delle nozze e il nome della città in cui esse furono celebrate, dati che permettono un dettagliato esame storico-artistico dei manufatti. Le quattro ketubbot della Biblioteca Estense di Modena costituiscono altrettanti contratti di nozze celebrate a Verona, Roma, Reggio Emilia e Gibilterra. Quest’ultima, che è l’unica ketubbah non italiana, con la sua data 1795 risulta essere una delle più antiche provenienti da quella località. L’arte decorativa ebraica, come del resto avviene per tutto il mondo dell’antiquariato, condivide con l’arte prodotta in ambito cristiano il diffuso fenomeno dei falsi. La percentuale di manufatti contraffatti è, infatti, abbastanza alta, in entrambi i casi, come dimostra il fatto che falsi si sono rivelati anche alcuni decori presenti nella collezione qui descritta. Interessante, in tal senso, è la documentazione scientifica di un falso emerso non in una ketubbah ma in una Megillat Ester della stessa collezione, confermato grazie ad analisi di laboratorio. Quello che qui si offre al lettore costituisce, dunque, un nuovo importante apporto allo studio dei manufatti ebraici prodotti nella Penisola italiana, senza dubbio l’area geografica che si pone al primo posto per antichità, quantità e qualità decorativa delle ketubbot in essa prodotte nel corso dei secoli.
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Conference and Seminar Presentations by Sofia Locatelli
En France, ni la culture matérielle ni la production artistique des sociétés juives ne font l’obj... more En France, ni la culture matérielle ni la production artistique des sociétés juives ne font l’objet de cycles de formation au sein de l’Université. Et si quelques chercheurs – archéologues, épigraphistes, historiens, archivistes, historiens de l’art… – s’attachent à ces domaines, leurs travaux demeurent peu accessibles à un large public. Pour pallier cette lacune dans le paysage académique, le musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme propose, en partenariat avec le Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art (DFK Paris) et l’École du Louvre, le cycle « Art et archéologie du judaïsme ». À raison d’une séance par mois à l’auditorium, ouverte à tous les publics le jeudi a 12h30, un spécialiste traite d’un sujet précis. Le programme de chaque saison se déploie de l’Antiquité à nos jours, en privilégiant l’actualité de la recherche sur le judaïsme en Europe et au Maghreb.
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Oxford University Chabad Society - Seminar in Jewish Studies - Yom Limmud - Oxford, 28 February 2... more Oxford University Chabad Society - Seminar in Jewish Studies - Yom Limmud - Oxford, 28 February 2016 - Exploring Jewish philosophy, spirituality, history, womanhood and medieval Jewish thought
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Seminars by Sofia Locatelli
I ciclo di seminari di epigrafia ebraica - Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Bologna
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Papers by Sofia Locatelli
on the culture, literature, and traditions of the
Jewish people of the Lagoon. This heritage can also
be found in the Ancient Jewish Cemetery of the
Lido. Sephardic tombstones are notable not only
for their architectural style but also for the
Sephardi script, the bilingual epitaphs, and the
coats of arms engraved on the stone. The
Sephardim were a valuable resource in the
Venetian economy and commerce. They also
founded a charity fraternity, whose statute was
published in 1712 in both Portuguese and Italian.
The study of tombstones and historical sources
helps us reconstruct the lives and events of the
community members as well as understand
important aspects of the literary, artistic, and
linguistic culture of the Sephardic Jews in the
diaspora.
Conference and Seminar Presentations by Sofia Locatelli
Seminars by Sofia Locatelli
on the culture, literature, and traditions of the
Jewish people of the Lagoon. This heritage can also
be found in the Ancient Jewish Cemetery of the
Lido. Sephardic tombstones are notable not only
for their architectural style but also for the
Sephardi script, the bilingual epitaphs, and the
coats of arms engraved on the stone. The
Sephardim were a valuable resource in the
Venetian economy and commerce. They also
founded a charity fraternity, whose statute was
published in 1712 in both Portuguese and Italian.
The study of tombstones and historical sources
helps us reconstruct the lives and events of the
community members as well as understand
important aspects of the literary, artistic, and
linguistic culture of the Sephardic Jews in the
diaspora.