The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy

Joseph R. Hacker is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Adam Shear is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Joseph R. Hacker is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Adam Shear is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Introduction: Book History and the Hebrew Book in Italy—Adam Shear and Joseph R. HackerChapter 1. Can Colophons Be Trusted? Insights from Decorated Hebrew Manuscripts Produced for Women in Renaissance Italy—Evelyn M. CohenChapter 2. Marchion in Hebrew Manuscripts: State Censorship in Florence, 1472—Nurit PasternakChapter 3. Daniel van Bombergen, a Bookman of Two Worlds—Bruce NielsenChapter 4. The Rabbinic Bible in Its Sixteenth-Century Context—David SternChapter 5. Sixteenth-Century Jewish Internal Censorship of Hebrew Books—Joseph R. HackerChapter 6. Robert Bellarmine Reads Rashi: Rabbinic Bible Commentaries and the Burning of the Talmud—Piet van BoxelChapter 7. Dangerous Readings in Early Modern Modena: Negotiating Jewish Culture in an Italian Key—Federica FrancesconiChapter 8. The Printing of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Prayer Books Printed for the Shomrim la-Boker Confraternities—Michela AndreattaChapter 9. Hebrew Printing in Eighteenth-Century Livorno: From Government Control to a Free Market—Francesca BregoliNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments