Carpi Collection
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Country
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IL
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Name of institution (English)
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The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
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Language of name of institution
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heb
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Contact information: postal address
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Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91010
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Contact information: phone number
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00972 2-6586249
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Contact information: email
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cahjp@nli.org.il
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Reference number
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P297
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Type of reference number
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Call number
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Title (official language of the state)
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Carpi Collection
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Language of title
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eng
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Creator / accumulator
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Daniel Carpi
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Language(s)
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heb
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ita
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spa
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ara
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fra
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Extent
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25 storage units
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Type of material
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Photographic Images
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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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.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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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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(source: Sourasky Central Library website)
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Access, restrictions
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The collection can be accessed in the reading room and in rooms with microfilm readers.
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Author of the description
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Joana Rodrigues, 2023
