Jews In The Renaissance, The

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In the dismal chronicle that records the existence of Jews among their host peoples, the age of the Italian Renaissance stands out as a period of uncommon liberality. Cosmopolitan in outlook and experimental, the Renaissance held out a hand—at arm's length, to be sure—to European Jewry, inviting collaboration in fashioning the new society. The Jews, stemming from an ancient people, and traditionally masters of certain arcane sciences, could serve their Italian patrons as guides to the disciplines of philology and mathematics. For a time philo-Semitism invaded the palazzi of the rich and the powerful, of rulers and popes; in the case of the popes, such philo-Semitic sentiment has never ceased to cause dismay in certain quarters. As late as the 1920's Ludwig Pastor, the great Catholic historian of the papacy, could still speak of the "great and in many cases certainly excessive, indulgence which the Popes of the Renaissance period, especially Alexander VI, Leo X, and lastly Paul III, had shown to the Jews." But the reaction was not slow in coming. It began under Julius III (1550-1555), who ordered the Talmud committed to the flames, and it reached its climax with the Bull of Paul IV, issued in the first year of his reign, 1555, which instituted the ghetto system in the papal territories. Jews were specifically commanded to live apart from Christians, in an area that had only one entrance and egress. Personal contact between Christians and Jews was almost impossible.

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