The hebrew book in early modern Italy /
This volume presents new research by an international group of scholars on the history of Hebrew books in Italy from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century, focusing on a range of issues related to the production and dissemination of Hebrew books as well as their audiences.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©2011 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Jewish culture and contexts
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Summary: |
This volume presents new research by an international group of scholars on the history of Hebrew books in Italy from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century, focusing on a range of issues related to the production and dissemination of Hebrew books as well as their audiences. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | 7 illus. |
ISBN: | 9780812205091 |
Index Number: | Z228 |
CLC: | G239.546.9 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Book History and the Hebrew Book in Italy / CHAPTER 1. Can Colophons Be Trusted? Insights from Decorated Hebrew Manuscripts Produced for Women in Renaissance Italy / CHAPTER 2. Marchion in Hebrew Manuscripts: State Censorship in Florence, 1472 / CHAPTER 3. Daniel van Bombergen, a Bookman of Two Worlds / CHAPTER 4. The Rabbinic Bible in Its Sixteenth-Century Context / CHAPTER 5. Sixteenth-Century Jewish Internal Censorship of Hebrew Books / CHAPTER 6. Robert Bellarmine Reads Rashi: Rabbinic Bible Commentaries and the Burning of the Talmud / CHAPTER 7. Dangerous Readings in Early Modern Modena: Negotiating Jewish Culture in an Italian Key / CHAPTER 8. The Printing of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Prayer Books Printed for the Shomrim la-Boker Confraternities / CHAPTER 9. Hebrew Printing in Eighteenth-Century Livorno: From Government Control to a Free Market / NOTES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. |