The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy / / ed. by Adam Shear, Joseph R. Hacker.

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• MitwirkendeR: Andreatta, Michela,; Boxel, van Piet,; Bregoli, Francesca,; Cohen, Evelyn M.,; Francesconi, Federica,; Hacker, Joseph R.,; Nielsen, Bruce,; Pasternak, Nurit,; Shear, Adam,; Stern, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Hacker, Joseph R.,; Shear, Adam,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 7 illus.

The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology-and the relatively rapid embrace of it among early modern Jews-certainly had an effect on many aspects of Jewish culture. One major change that print seems to have brough...

Table of 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