ISBN:
9781684581498
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9781684581504
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 240 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2023
Series Statement:
The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Skloot, Joseph A., 1983 - First impressions
DDC:
686.2/1924
Keywords:
Judah ben Samuel Criticism, Textual
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Judah ben Samuel First editions
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Froben, Ambrosius
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16. Jahrhundert (1500 bis 1599 n. Chr.)
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Printing, Hebrew
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Printing, Hebrew
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Hebrew imprints
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Hebrew imprints
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Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
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HISTORY / Jewish
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HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century
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History
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
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Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
Abstract:
Uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the Sefer Hasidim book. In 1538, a partnership of Jewish silk makers in the city of Bologna published a book entitled Sefer Hasidim, a compendium of rituals, stories, and religious instruction that primarily originated in medieval Franco-Germany. How these men, of Italian and Spanish descent, came to produce a book that would come to shape Ashkenazic culture, and Jewish culture more broadly, over the next four centuries is the basis of this kaleidoscopic study of the history of Hebrew printing in the sixteenth century. During these early years of printing, the classic works of ancient and medieval Hebrew and Jewish literature became widely available to Jewish (and non-Jewish) readers for the first time. Printing, though, was not merely the duplication and distribution of pre-existing manuscripts, it was the creative adaptation and transformation of those manuscripts by printers. Ranging from Catholic Bologna to Protestant Basel to the Jewish heartland of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Joseph A. Skloot uncovers the history of that creativity by examining the first two print editions of Sefer Hasidim. Along the way, he demonstrates how volumes that were long thought to be eternal and unchanging were in fact artifacts of historical agency and contingency, created by and for human beings
Description / Table of Contents:
Sefer ḥasidim in the Middle Ages -- The Partners of Bologna -- The Partners' Sefer ḥasidim: Paratexts and Text -- Ambrosius Froben of Basel -- Froben's Sefer ḥasidim: Paratexts -- Froben's Sefer ḥasidim: Text.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Zielgruppe: 5PGJ, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen
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