{"product_id":"9781641892506-jewish-theatre-making-in-mantua-1520","title":"Jewish Theatre Making in Mantua, 1520–1650","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book traces how the Jews of Mantua, beginning in 1520 and continuing until 1650, established theatrical performance as a form of cultural exchange that could be used to calibrate their relations with the Christian community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book studies how the Jewish community of Mantua established, normalized, and maintained interrelations with the Christian community for over 130 years, from 1520 to 1650, by means of theatre performance for the Gonzaga Dukes. Performance is shown to have been a mutually beneficial \"currency\" that both the Dukes and Jews could use to calibrate their relations with one another. Seen in this light, the author demonstrates that performance was not the consequence of cultural exchange between Jews and Christians, but was one of the means by which the complicated nature of cultural communication and exchange took place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJewish Theatre Making in Mantua\u003c\/em\u003e details the performances created by the Jewish community of Mantua and argues that these theatrical events were a crucial component in the ability of Jews to live peacefully within Mantua, which became one of the few refuges left to Jews in the Italian peninsula and Catholic Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40638573576289,"sku":"9781641892506","price":156.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26734884.jpg?v=1721212018","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781641892506-jewish-theatre-making-in-mantua-1520","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}