The Hebrew book in early modern Italy
By: edited by Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear
Series: Jewish culture and contexts; Jewish culture and contexts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780812243529
Subjects: Hebrew imprints; Hebrew Printing; Imprints; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Book history and the Hebrew book in Italy / Adam Shear and Joseph R. Hacker; title: Can colophons be trusted?: insights from decorated Hebrew manuscripts produced for women in Renaissance Italy / Evelyn M. Cohen; title: Marchion in Hebrew manuscripts: state censorship in Florence, 1472 / Nurit Pasternak; title: Daniel van Bombergen, a bookman of two worlds / Bruce Nielsen; title: The rabbinic Bible in its sixteenth-century context / David Stern; title: Sixteenth-century Jewish internal censorship of Hebrew books / Joseph R. Hacker; title: Robert Bellarmine reads Rashi: rabbinic Bible commentaries and the burning of the Talmud / Piet van Boxel; title: Dangerous readings in early modern Modena: negotiating Jewish culture in an Italian key / Federica Francesconi; title: The printing of devotion in seventeenth-century Italy: prayer books printed for the Shomrim la-boker confraternities / Michela Andreatta; title: Hebrew printing in eighteenth-century Livorno: from government control to a free market / Francesca Bregoli.