Abstract
Laura Quercioli Mincer
Notes on the Contribution of Italian Slavic Studies to the Area of Jewish Studies
Italian Slavic Studies are generally considered to be traditional, still bound to an old-fashioned Language-Nation, ‘colonial’ approach. In this article the author offers a possible defi nition of the area of Jewish Studies and seeks to demonstrate that an interest for the ‘Other’, in this case for the contribution of Jewish culture to the different Slavic cultures, plays an important role in the works of many of the most outstanding Italian Slavic scholars. A bibliography of nearly 250 positions of articles and volumes devoted to the issue of Slavic-Jewish cultural contacts substantiates this view.
