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Technology, Preservation, and Freedom of Expression
· Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland, USAA ruling against rabbis who have sought to delay the printing of the Zohar
Responsa of Rabbenu Nissim of Gerona
The "imprimatur" by Isaac de Lattes
Responsa of Rabbenu Nissim of Gerona
The "imprimatur" by Isaac de Lattes
A publisher in service of his readers: prefaces to Amsterdam 1711 edition of the Tsene Rene
· Shlomo Berger, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsShlomo Lutzker's Introduction to Magid Devarav Le-Ya'akov
· Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University, IsraelLeon Modena's Ari Nohem Between Print and Manuscript
· Yaacob Dweck, Princeton University, USAThe Paratexts of Judah Marcaria: Addressing the (Imagined) Reader in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Italy
· Adam Shear, University of Pittsburgh, USAPutting Hebrew Books in Order
· Avriel Bar-Levav, The Open University of Israel, IsraelJews under Surveillance: Censorship and Reading in Early Modern Italy
· Federica Francesconi, University of California-Los Angeles, US1. Rules for the expurgation of the Hebrew Books
2. Report regarding Hebrew Books sent by the Reverend Father Inquisitor
3. Commentary by R. Salomon [Rashi] on the laws
4. Testimony by Aaron Berechia da Modena
2. Report regarding Hebrew Books sent by the Reverend Father Inquisitor
3. Commentary by R. Salomon [Rashi] on the laws
4. Testimony by Aaron Berechia da Modena
The Power of Texts in the Conversion of an Old Christian Hebraist
· Miriam Bodian, University of Texas at Austin, USAFrom Apologetics to Polemics
· Adam Sutcliffe, King's College London, UKEarly modern Yiddish readers
· Ruth von Bernuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USWonderful, adventuresome and highly comical stories and deeds of the world-famous people of Schildburg in Mesopotamia beyond Utopia
Wonderful, strange, entertaining and amusing stories and deeds of the world-famous people of Schildburg
Wonderful, strange, entertaining and highly comical stories and deeds of the world-famous people of Schildburg
Wonderful, strange, entertaining and amusing stories and deeds of the world-famous people of Schildburg
Wonderful, strange, entertaining and highly comical stories and deeds of the world-famous people of Schildburg