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Stefanie B. Siegmund

Stefanie Siegmund is an historian of early modern Italian Jewry. A Mellon Fellow and NEH recipient, she taught at the University of Florida (1995-1998), at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (1998-2008), and at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York (2008-present). Her study of the ghetto of Florence (Stanford, 2006) was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize by the American Historical Association and the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History by the Society for Italian Historical Studies (2007).

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Ginevra Blanis

Ginevra Blanis was a late sixteenth-century silk manufacturer of the Florentine ghetto and Siena. She left her mark as a founder of the young community with her philanthropy and in the public communication of what she considered Jewish values in the provisions of her will.