Evelien Chayes

I am currently directing SION-Digit, a project that aims at revealing everyday-life, objects and transborder transactions of Jews, 1500-1700, within the geographical triangle Venice-Bordeaux-Amsterdam, and creating the resource for reconstructing the spatial and temporal networks between these cities. My own research mainly concerns spatial, material and intellectual aspects of Jewish lives in early modern Venice, including its overseas territories, with a special interest for book ownership.

“Résister à travers la dévolution. Letizia Nahmias (m. 1669) des Levantins de Venise,” Zakhor (2019-3): 85-96.
“Héraldique et Bible en dialogue: trafiquer-transcender la littérature entre Venise et Nicosie (documents de Venise, 1558-1563),” Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa (2019-1): 147-180.
“Réforme, messianisme et divination dans les marges vénitiennes. Empreintes et emprunts orientaux dans la production littéraire de Brescia, XVIe-XVIIe siècle,” in Fortunato Martinengo: un gentiluomo del Rinascimento fra arti, lettere e musica, eds. Elisabetta Selmi, Marco Bizzarini, Morcelliana (2018): 243-272.
“Crossing Cultures in the Venetian Ghetto. Leone Modena, the Accademia degli Incogniti and Imprese Literature,” Bollettino di italianistica (2017-2): 62-88

“Studying Jewish Book-Ownership in Early Modern Venice: Letizia Nahmias’ Bookshop”, with Anna de Wilde (forthcoming 2023).