Introduction / DavidB. Ruderman -- Italian Jewish preaching: An overview / Marc Saperstein -- Judah Moscato: A late renaissance Jewish preacher / Moshe Idel -- Preaching as mediation between elite and popular cultures: The case of Judah del Bene / Robert Bonfil -- Jewish preaching and the language of science: The sermons of Azariah Figo / DavidB. Ruderman -- Preaching in the Venetian ghetto: The sermons of Leon Modena / Joanna Weinberg -- Speaking ofthe dead: The emergence ofthe eulogy among Italian Jewry ofthe sixteenth century / Elliott Horowitz