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Te Festschrift Ioly Zorattini is reviewed, with particular attention to som esection of this multivolume collective work. The unifying character of the volumes are, beneath the attention to Jewish Studies, the firm intention to imitate prof. Zorattini in his attitude towards the study of Jewish history and any phenomenon relevant to Jewish culture. Local history reveals itself, from the peculiar Jewish perspectives as te opposite of narrow parochialism, it is in itself universalistic, privided that its Jewish quality is taken into due account.