Pontremoli’s cry: Personhood, scale, and history in the Eastern MediterraneanFootnote^*

* This essay has benefited from comments from Pamela Ballinger, Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Kim Bowes, Dario Gaggio, Jessica A. Marglin, Erik Mueggler, James A. Palmer, Maria Robles Gila, Aya Sabry, and the journal’s anonymous reviewers. I am especially grateful to Gisele Levi for the numerous conversations we had at the archives of the Unione Comunità Ebraiche Italiane.

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