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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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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Hacker, Joseph R.; Shear, Adam
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2011]
©2011
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Jewish culture and contexts
Subjects:
Hebrew imprints > Italy > History.
Printing, Hebrew > Italy > History.
Jewish studies.
Nachrichtenmedien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen.
Religion, Jewish Studies, Theology.
Theology, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies.
RELIGION > History. > History.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812205091
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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.

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