Volume 6: Reading across Cultures: The Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period, 2009, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Table of Contents

The Hebrew library of a Renaissance humanist.

· Theodor Dunkelgrün, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, U.S.A.


Broadsheet of Koheles Shlomo

· Shalhevet Dotan-Ofir, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel


Technology, Preservation, and Freedom of Expression

· Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland, USA


A publisher in service of his readers: prefaces to Amsterdam 1711 edition of the Tsene Rene

· Shlomo Berger, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Shlomo Lutzker's Introduction to Magid Devarav Le-Ya'akov

· Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel


Leon Modena's Ari Nohem Between Print and Manuscript

· Yaacob Dweck, Princeton University, USA


The Paratexts of Judah Marcaria: Addressing the (Imagined) Reader in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Italy

· Adam Shear, University of Pittsburgh, USA


Putting Hebrew Books in Order

· Avriel Bar-Levav, The Open University of Israel, Israel


Jews under Surveillance: Censorship and Reading in Early Modern Italy

· Federica Francesconi, University of California-Los Angeles, US


The Power of Texts in the Conversion of an Old Christian Hebraist

· Miriam Bodian, University of Texas at Austin, USA


From Apologetics to Polemics

· Adam Sutcliffe, King's College London, UK


Early modern Yiddish readers

· Ruth von Bernuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US


Sefer Or le-Et Erev: a history of a misunderstanding

· Pawel Maciejko, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel


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