Statement

Despite the theoretical limits of religious law, it was known that some Jews in Italy were relaxed about tasting non-Jewish wine: Leone da Modena, a rabbi of Venice, explained in the seventeenth century that Italian forebears had always drunk ordinary wine. Christians, for their part, ignored Church warnings when it came to enjoying Jewish wine: in the fourteenth century Taddeo, a father and abbot of an Umbrian monastery, praised a Jewish winemaker's Trebbiano reds as the area's best, and monks of the confraternity of S. Stefano regularly patronized a Jewish-run tavern at Assisi in the 1380s.

References

1. p. 211

   supports · main text · ch. 7

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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2. p. 211

   supports · main text · ch. 7

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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