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

Participants

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

· Putting Hebrew Books in Order


Shlomo Berger, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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


Miriam Bodian, University of Texas at Austin, USA

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


Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland, USA

· Technology, Preservation, and Freedom of Expression


Yaacob Dweck, Princeton University, USA

· Leon Modena's Ari Nohem Between Print and Manuscript


Federica Francesconi, University of California-Los Angeles, US

· Jews under Surveillance: Censorship and Reading in Early Modern Italy


Pawel Maciejko, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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


Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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


Adam Shear, University of Pittsburgh, USA

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


Adam Sutcliffe, King's College London, UK

· From Apologetics to Polemics


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

· Early modern Yiddish readers


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