The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2011

The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy

Edited by: Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear

In the series Jewish Culture and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205091

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Joseph R. Hacker is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Adam Shear is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Reviews

"In early modern Italy Jewish books played a central role in the cultural wars that were roiling Christian society. . . . This rich collection of studies . . . delve[s] deeply into fascinating and generally unknown aspects of this subject. . . . An important contribution to the history of the Hebrew book and to early modern Jewish history."—Jewish Book World

"A remarkably valuable contribution to the cultural history of the Jews in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. The essays offer deep insights into methodological issues broadly connected to the larger general context of continuity and change, focusing on the dialogical relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish identities, especially on the constitutive forces ushering in the modern age."—Robert Bonfil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"This compact yet intellectually expansive book illuminates the many overlapping worlds of the production of—and, crucially, the reaction to—Hebrew books in early modern Italy. The period covered is expansive as well, some 300 years. . . . And Italy is the fons . . . of Jewish print culture, home to the first dated Hebrew book as well as the first book printed in the lifetime of its author. . . . This is a collection in which each essay is a labor of love, and in which one is struck by each scholar's deep interest and erudition. . . . It is worthy of the stunning books it discusses."—TLS

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INTRODUCTION. Book History and the Hebrew Book in Italy Adam Shear and Joseph R. Hacker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1. Can Colophons Be Trusted? Insights from Decorated Hebrew Manuscripts Produced for Women in Renaissance Italy Evelyn M. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
CHAPTER 2. Marchion in Hebrew Manuscripts: State Censorship in Florence, 1472 Nurit Pasternak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
CHAPTER 3. Daniel van Bombergen, a Bookman of Two Worlds Bruce Nielsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
CHAPTER 4. The Rabbinic Bible in Its Sixteenth-Century Context David Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
CHAPTER 5. Sixteenth-Century Jewish Internal Censorship of Hebrew Books Joseph R. Hacker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
CHAPTER 6. Robert Bellarmine Reads Rashi: Rabbinic Bible Commentaries and the Burning of the Talmud van Piet Boxel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
CHAPTER 7. Dangerous Readings in Early Modern Modena: Negotiating Jewish Culture in an Italian Key Federica Francesconi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
CHAPTER 8. The Printing of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Prayer Books Printed for the Shomrim la-Boker Confraternities Michela Andreatta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
CHAPTER 9. Hebrew Printing in Eighteenth-Century Livorno: From Government Control to a Free Market Francesca Bregoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 7 illus.
Keywords: History; Religion; Jewish Studies; Religious Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies

eBook

Published: August 19, 2011
ISBN: 9780812205091