The Hebrew book in early modern Italy

The Hebrew book in early modern Italy [electronic resource] / edited by Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011. - vi, 326 p. : ill. - Jewish culture and contexts .

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.


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Hebrew imprints--History.--Italy
Printing, Hebrew--History.--Italy


Italy--Imprints--History.


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