Carpi Collection
Item
Country
IL
Name of institution (English)
The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
heb
Contact information: postal address
Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91010
Contact information: phone number
00972 2-6586249
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
cahjp@nli.org.il
Reference number
P297
Type of reference number
Call number
Title (official language of the state)
Carpi Collection
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
Daniel Carpi
Language(s)
heb
ita
spa
ara
fra
Extent
25 storage units
Type of material
Photographic Images
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Carpi Collection gathers copies of documents and other materials produced by the historian Daniel Carpi, especially relating to the Jews in Italy. It contains documents on the Jewish communities of Lippiano, Perugian and Florence, including notes on the genealogy of prominent members of the Lippiano community and an article on the Jewish ghetto of Florence. The collection includes notes on the Jews of Corfu (1703) and its Jewish community (1736-1791), copies of writings from the city's synagogue (1772), and an article on Jewish life in Corfu in the 1770s.
Included in the collection are copies of documents held in the Trinity College Library in Dublin regarding relations between Jews and the Italian popes, with Carpi's notes and writings on the Shabbat in Rome.
It also includes a study on Jewish life in 15th-century Padua and Carpi's notes on the life of Rabbi Judah Messer Leon of Padua and studies on 17th-century Italian Jews in Amsterdam and their relations with Sephardic and North African Jews. Also, there is correspondence concerning relations between Moroccan Jews and Amsterdam Sephardim, with writings in Arabic, Hebrew, Italian and French.
Particularly interesting for the study of the Sephardic Diaspora is the section dedicated to the Italian city of Venice. It comprises writings concerning the ghetto of 1541; late 16th-century correspondence in Latin between Venitian Jews; writings of Menasseh ben Israel (1664); documents concerning the arrival of Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition; and Carpi's personal correspondence and conference papers on Venetian Jewry.
Included in the collection are copies of documents held in the Trinity College Library in Dublin regarding relations between Jews and the Italian popes, with Carpi's notes and writings on the Shabbat in Rome.
It also includes a study on Jewish life in 15th-century Padua and Carpi's notes on the life of Rabbi Judah Messer Leon of Padua and studies on 17th-century Italian Jews in Amsterdam and their relations with Sephardic and North African Jews. Also, there is correspondence concerning relations between Moroccan Jews and Amsterdam Sephardim, with writings in Arabic, Hebrew, Italian and French.
Particularly interesting for the study of the Sephardic Diaspora is the section dedicated to the Italian city of Venice. It comprises writings concerning the ghetto of 1541; late 16th-century correspondence in Latin between Venitian Jews; writings of Menasseh ben Israel (1664); documents concerning the arrival of Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition; and Carpi's personal correspondence and conference papers on Venetian Jewry.
Administrative / Biographical history
Daniel Carpi (1926–2005) was an expert historian of Italian Jewry. Carpi was Head of the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and acted as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. He also taught at Yeshiva University, Sorbonne, and St Anthony's College at Oxford. He established the Department of Jewish Studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University of the Vatican.
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Access, restrictions
The collection can be accessed in the reading room and in rooms with microfilm readers.
Links to finding aids
Author of the description
Joana Rodrigues, 2023
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