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WHO'S WHO
IN THE JEWISH INITIATIVE
OF
THE MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT?
COMMITTEE
FOR JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE
| Dr.
Steven Bayme |
Director,
Jewish Communal Affairs, American Jewish Committee |
| E.
Robert Goodkind |
President of the American Jewish Committee |
| Dr.
Joseph Levi |
Chief
Rabbi, Jewish Community of Florence |
| Wanda
Lattes |
Florence |
| Dr.
Martin Weyl |
Director Emeritus, Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
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IPPOLITA
MORGESE completed a degree in Letters at the University
of Florence in 1987 and another degree in musical paleography
in 1992 at the Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra in Rome.
In 1995, she completed a post-doctoral "Diploma di Archivistica,
Paleografia e Diplomatica" at the Florentine State Archive,
focusing on Florentine institutional history. Dr. Morgese has
published widely in the areas of music history and archival
history. In addition to her administrative duties as Vice President
of the Medici Archive Project, she is responsible for the editing
and publication of Magistrato Supremo 4449 and 4450, the papers
of the Granducal Commission that instituted the first Florentine
Ghetto.
MICHELE
LUZZATI is Chair of the Department of Medieval Studies at
the University of Pisa, with a long list of publications in
two areas: Social and Economic History in the Late Middle Ages
and Renaissance, and the History of the Jews in Italy from the
Middle Ages to Emancipation (with particular attention to the
Jewish Communities of Pisa, Livorno, Florence and Volterra.)
He is active in many organizations and is currently President
of the Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo, a
member of the scholarly committee of the Fondazione Primo Levi
per la Cultura Ebraica and a member of the editorial committee
of the historical journal, "Rassegna Mensile di Israel." Prof.
Luzzati is collaborating with the Medici Archive Project on
the edition of Magistrato Supremo 4449 and 4450, the working
papers of the Granducal commission that instituted the first
Florentine Ghetto in 1570-71.
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