Participants
Avriel Bar-Levav, The Open University of Israel, Israel
· Putting Hebrew Books in OrderShlomo Berger, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
· A publisher in service of his readers: prefaces to Amsterdam 1711 edition of the Tsene ReneMiriam Bodian, University of Texas at Austin, USA
· The Power of Texts in the Conversion of an Old Christian HebraistBernard Cooperman, University of Maryland, USA
· Technology, Preservation, and Freedom of ExpressionA 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
Yaacob Dweck, Princeton University, USA
· Leon Modena's Ari Nohem Between Print and ManuscriptFederica Francesconi, University of California-Los Angeles, US
· Jews under Surveillance: Censorship and Reading in Early Modern Italy1. 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
Pawel Maciejko, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
· Sefer Or le-Et Erev: a history of a misunderstandingMoshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
· Shlomo Lutzker's Introduction to Magid Devarav Le-Ya'akovAdam Shear, University of Pittsburgh, USA
· The Paratexts of Judah Marcaria: Addressing the (Imagined) Reader in Mid-Sixteenth-Century ItalyAdam Sutcliffe, King's College London, UK
· From Apologetics to PolemicsRuth von Bernuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US
· Early modern Yiddish readersWonderful, 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