Flora Cassen: 1 book

Book cover of Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy

Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy

Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols

by Flora Cassen
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017

It is a little known fact that as early as the thirteenth century, Europe's political and religious powers tried to physically mark and distinguish the Jews from the rest of society. During the Renaissance, Italian Jews first had to wear a yellow round badge on their chest, and then later, a yellow...
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