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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Book History and the Hebrew Book in Italy -Adam Shear and Joseph R. Hacker Chapter 1. Can Colophons Be Trusted? Insights from Decorated Hebrew Manuscripts Produced for Women in Renaissance Italy -Evelyn M. Cohen Chapter 2. Marchion in Hebrew Manuscripts: State Censorship in Florence, 1472 -Nurit Pasternak Chapter 3. Daniel van Bombergen, a Bookman of Two Worlds -Bruce Nielsen Chapter 4. The Rabbinic Bible in Its Sixteenth-Century Context -David Stern Chapter 5. Sixteenth-Century Jewish Internal Censorship of Hebrew Books -Joseph R. Hacker Chapter 6. Robert Bellarmine Reads Rashi: Rabbinic Bible Commentaries and the Burning of the Talmud -Piet van Boxel Chapter 7. Dangerous Readings in Early Modern Modena: Negotiating Jewish Culture in an Italian Key -Federica Francesconi Chapter 8. The Printing of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Prayer Books Printed for the Shomrim la-Boker Confraternities -Michela Andreatta Chapter 9. Hebrew Printing in Eighteenth-Century Livorno: From Government Control to a Free Market -Francesca Bregoli Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments ...
