The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy 9780812243529, 0812243528

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The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy
9780812243529, 0812243528

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Joseph R. Hacker
Adam Shear

Table of 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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