| Bianco Cotrozzi, Ugo Cova, Eva Faber, Richard Fish, Anna Foa, Carlo Gatti, Yosef Hacker, Dov HaKohen, Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini, Yosef Kaplan, the late Jacob Katz, Erna Kelley, Jeremy King, Grete Klingenstein, Carol Herselle Krinsky, Miriam Levy, Klaus Lohrmann, Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, Giuseppe Minera, Claudia Prestel, Quentin Quesnell, Ada Rapaport-Albert, Elia Richetti, Marsha Rozenblit, David Ruderman, Renata Segre, Shlomo Simonsohn, Renato Spiegel, the late Mario Stock, Kenneth Stow, Franz Szabo, Ariel Toaff, Nikolaus Vielmetti, Klemens von Klemperer, Jeff Weintraub, James Weiss, and Nathan Wiesenfeld. I of course take responsibility for remaining errors and shortcomings. |
| I am indebted to the directors and staffs of the archives and libraries who so readily and graciously provided materials for my research: Archives Nationales, Paris; Archivio di Stato di Trieste; Biblioteca Civica, Trieste; the British Library; Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem; Columbia University Libraries; La Comunit Israelitica di Trieste; Harvard College Library; Haus-, Hof-, und Staatsarchiv, and Hofkammerarchiv of the sterreichisches Staatsarchiv, Vienna; Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati; Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion, New York; Centro di studi sull'Ebraismo Italiano, Jerusalem; Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem; and Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York. |
| I gratefully acknowledge those who helped fund my graduate studies and the subsequent research required for this book: the American Council of Learned Societies; Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies; Imperial Oil of Canada; Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture; Quebec Government Ministry of Education; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; and Yad HaNadiv/Barecha Foundation. The Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University kindly granted me use of its facilities while I was a Yad HaNadiv Fellow in Jerusalem. At different stages of my work on this book, I was fortunate to serve on the faculties and enjoy the resources of Yale University, Hebrew College Boston, and Smith College. For many years now, I have benefited in manifold ways from my colleagues and friends at Smith College. I wish to thank the staff of the Interlibrary Loan department of Neilson Library, who worked prodigiously to obtain distant materials for me; and the Jean Picker Fellowships, the Setlow Family Fund in Jewish Studies, and the Committee on Faculty Compensation and Development, for their financial support. |
| I owe special thanks to my editors, Stacey Lynn and Sherry Wert, who skillfully and patiently guided this manuscript through copyediting to final production; and to Nicholas Read, who generously volunteered his artistic and map-making talents. |
| Finally, I scarcely have the words to express my gratitude to my family, |
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