ISBN:
9789047405580
,
9789004139053
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2004
Series Statement:
Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 36
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Picturing Yiddish : Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy
Keywords:
Illustration of books 16th century
;
Yiddish imprints History 16th century
Abstract:
This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books that were produced in sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs illustrated by its scribe, and two books of customs, a chivalric romance, and a book of fables, all printed at Christian presses in Venice and Verona. The long-neglected manuscript includes more than one hundred drawings, here reproduced for the first time, which are strikingly inventive and full of a joie de vivre that gives the lie to the lachrymose view of Jewish history. This volume, which explores how Yiddish imagery constructs women, Jewish memory, and Jewish identity, will interest art historians, feminist scholars, Jewish Studies specialists, and specialists in the history of the book
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789047405580
