Italy and "its" Jews: mobilities, modernities, identities[L’Italie et « ses » Juifs : mobilités, modernités, identités]

This article investigates the making of Jewish identity in early-modern italy through a re ection on the historiographical approaches. the proposed analysis deals with three moments that have marked the history of italian Jews : the diffusion of the credit market in the 15th century, assessed through the study of Jewish mobility ; the establish- ment of the ghettos in the 16th century, considered within the tension between conversionist projects of the counter-reformist papacy and processes of Jewish acculturation to italian society ; and the path of Jewish emancipation, presented within the context of the political and cultural transition enacted during the 18th century.