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The Hebrew book in early modern Italy [electronic resource] / edited by Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish culture and contextsPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.Description: vi, 326 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 070.50945 22
LOC classification:
  • Z228.H4 H425 2011
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Contents:
Book history and the Hebrew book in Italy / Adam Shear and Joseph R. Hacker -- Can colophons be trusted?: insights from decorated Hebrew manuscripts produced for women in Renaissance Italy / Evelyn M. Cohen -- Marchion in Hebrew manuscripts: state censorship in Florence, 1472 / Nurit Pasternak -- Daniel van Bombergen, a bookman of two worlds / Bruce Nielsen -- The rabbinic Bible in its sixteenth-century context / David Stern -- Sixteenth-century Jewish internal censorship of Hebrew books / Joseph R. Hacker -- Robert Bellarmine reads Rashi: rabbinic Bible commentaries and the burning of the Talmud / Piet van Boxel -- Dangerous readings in early modern Modena: negotiating Jewish culture in an Italian key / Federica Francesconi -- The printing of devotion in seventeenth-century Italy: prayer books printed for the Shomrim la-boker confraternities / Michela Andreatta -- Hebrew printing in eighteenth-century Livorno: from government control to a free market / Francesca Bregoli.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Book history and the Hebrew book in Italy / Adam Shear and Joseph R. Hacker -- Can colophons be trusted?: insights from decorated Hebrew manuscripts produced for women in Renaissance Italy / Evelyn M. Cohen -- Marchion in Hebrew manuscripts: state censorship in Florence, 1472 / Nurit Pasternak -- Daniel van Bombergen, a bookman of two worlds / Bruce Nielsen -- The rabbinic Bible in its sixteenth-century context / David Stern -- Sixteenth-century Jewish internal censorship of Hebrew books / Joseph R. Hacker -- Robert Bellarmine reads Rashi: rabbinic Bible commentaries and the burning of the Talmud / Piet van Boxel -- Dangerous readings in early modern Modena: negotiating Jewish culture in an Italian key / Federica Francesconi -- The printing of devotion in seventeenth-century Italy: prayer books printed for the Shomrim la-boker confraternities / Michela Andreatta -- Hebrew printing in eighteenth-century Livorno: from government control to a free market / Francesca Bregoli.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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