Bibliological and Religious Studies on the Hebrew Book: Collected Essays (Eastern and Central European Voices, 5)

✍ Scribed by Krzysztof Pilarczyk

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The presented essays are divided into three groups. The first article concerns the book produced by Jews in Central and Eastern Europe against the background of the world production of Hebrew books. The second, the printing of the New Testament in Yiddish (Hebrew fonts) in the first half of the 16th century in Krakow. This also includes two articles on the Talmud. The first article illustrates the intellectual effort of Polish Jews who faced the challenge of printing Talmudic tractates with valuable documentary annexes. The second presents the difficulties that the Jewish printers had to face when persecuted by the Polish censorship authorities. The last group opens with an article describing one of the most valuable European collections of Judaica - old prints from the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow, from the former Prussian State Library in Berlin. The second presents a part of the Saraval's collection - priceless Hebrew incunabula that were transferred from Prague to Wroclaw. The third concerns the 14th-century Wolff Haggadah with a "Polish" episode in the background. Together, all the articles form a selective introduction to the little-known world of the Hebrew book.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Table of Hebrew and Aramaic transcription
Introduction
1. Hebrew printed book in Central-Eastern Europe in the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries. Topography, production size, and function
1.1 The situation of the Jews in Europe at the beginning of the modern era
1.2 The function of the book in Jewish culture
1.3 Topography of Hebrew book printing centres in Europe and the estimated volume of their production
1.4 Topography of Hebrew printing centres in Central and Eastern Europe and the volume of their production
1.5 The profile and function of the printed Hebrew Book in Central and Eastern Europe in religious message
2. Rabbi Moshe Isserles of Kraków in the face of controversy between Katzenellenbogen and Giustiniani
3. New Testament in the Jewish language printed in Kraków in 1540–1541
3.1 Printer Asher/Paul Helicz
3.2 Historical and religious context of Asher/Paul Helicz
3.3 Dos noye testement – language, German original, patron
3.4 Fate of the mission and circulation
3.5 Conclusion (relevance of Dos noye testement to research)
3.6 Annexes
4. Jews in the Old Poland Talmud printing challenges
4.1 The beginnings of the Jewish Communities in Poland and their intellectual condition
4.2 Hebrew printing in the Old Poland and the printers of Talmudic tractates
4.3 The role of Hebrew printing in the Old Poland in the religious message of Judaism
4.4 Annexes
5. Disputes about the printing of Talmud in the Old Poland from the history of censorship in the sixteenth and seventeenth century
6. Judaica – old prints from the Berlin Collection in the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków
7. Hebrew incunabula from the Saraval Collection in the University Library in Wrocław
7.1 The History of the Saraval Collection
7.2 Hebrew incunabula in Poland
7.3 The Wrocław Collection of Hebrew incunabula
8. Wolff Haggadah with a Polish episode in the background
8.1 Archaeology of the manuscript
8.2 History of the manuscript
8.3 Manuscript culture
Bibliography
1. Printed sources
1.1 Talmud tractates
1.1.1 Talmud tractates from the Lublin printing house (in chronological order) with tractates bought in Hanau
1.1.2 Talmud tractates from the Kraków printing house (in chronological order)
1.1.3 Talmud tractates from the Nowy Dwór printing house (in chronological order)
1.2 Other sources
2. Sources of manuscripts
3. (Bible-)bibliographies and library catalogues
4. Studies
5. Auxiliary literature (selection)
Source of figures
List of tables
Index of persons
Index of places
Body