Perspectives on the Hebraic book
Subtitle: the Myron M. Weinstein memorial lectures at the Library of Congress
By: edited by Peggy K. Pearlstein
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780844495361
Subjects: Hebrew Printing; Yiddish Theater; Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Washington Haggadah; History
Notes: This work is the compilation of the Myron M. Weinstein Memorial Lectures on the Hebraic Book at the Library of Congress, sponsored by the Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, and given between 2000 and 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Readers and printers of sixteenth-century Hebrew books in the Ottoman Empire / Joseph R. Hacker; title: Israel among the nations: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hebrew prayer broadsides / Grace Cohen Grossman; title: Isaac de Lattes' sermons and the impact of printing on Italian Jewish piety / Bernard Dov Cooperman; title: The Jewish book in America / Jonathan D. Sarna; title: Bitter women: the relationship between Joel ben Simeon's Washington Haggadah and the Maraviglia tefillah / Evelyn M. Cohen; title: Conservation detective work: the case of the Washington Haggadah / Doris A. Hamburg; title: A bibliographer encounters the muses: reflections on the Yiddish theater and its legacy / Zachary M. Baker; title: Traditional Judaism or reform? the case of the Mannheimer prayer book in nineteenth-century Vienna / Marsha M. Rozenblit; title: Breaking the Holocaust silence: a hidden Hasidic text of 1947 and Elie Wiesel / Gershon Greenberg.