The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy

✍ Scribed by Joseph R. Hacker (editor); Adam Shear (editor)

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 332
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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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