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

Other author Hacker, Joseph, 1940-
Other author Shear, Adam.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
Descriptionvi, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesJewish culture and contexts
Jewish culture and contexts. ^A540726
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011012383
ISBN9780812243529 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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