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

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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