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

2009 Workshop Texts

1. Rules for the expurgation of the Hebrew Books
See: Jews under Surveillance: Censorship and Reading in Early Modern Italy
Federica Francesconi
Translated by: Federica Francesconi, University of California-Los Angeles

2. Report regarding Hebrew Books sent by the Reverend Father Inquisitor
See: Jews under Surveillance: Censorship and Reading in Early Modern Italy
Federica Francesconi
Ciro Yaghel, 1624
Translated by: Federica Francesconi, University of California-Los Angeles

3. Commentary by R. Salomon [Rashi] on the laws
See: Jews under Surveillance: Censorship and Reading in Early Modern Italy
Federica Francesconi
Translated by: Federica Francesconi, University of California-Los Angeles

4. Testimony by Aaron Berechia da Modena
See: Jews under Surveillance: Censorship and Reading in Early Modern Italy
Federica Francesconi
Translated by: Federica Francesconi, University of California-Los Angeles

A ruling against rabbis who have sought to delay the printing of the Zohar
See: Technology, Preservation, and Freedom of Expression
Bernard Cooperman
Isaac de Lattes,
Translated by: Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland

Divine Warnings against the Vain Idolatry of the Gentiles
See: From Apologetics to Polemics
Adam Sutcliffe
Translated by: Adam Sutcliffe, King's College London

Inquisition file of Lope de Vera y Alarcón
See: The Power of Texts in the Conversion of an Old Christian Hebraist
Miriam Bodian
Translated by: Miriam Bodian, University of Texas at Austin

Israel Avenged
See: From Apologetics to Polemics
Adam Sutcliffe
Translated by: Adam Sutcliffe, King's College London

Light for the Evening
See: Sefer Or le-Et Erev: a history of a misunderstanding
Pawel Maciejko
Translated by: Pawel Maciejko, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Responsa of Rabbenu Nissim of Gerona
See: Technology, Preservation, and Freedom of Expression
Bernard Cooperman
Translated by: Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland

The "imprimatur" by Isaac de Lattes
See: Technology, Preservation, and Freedom of Expression
Bernard Cooperman
Translated by: Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland

The lips of those who are asleep
See: Putting Hebrew Books in Order
Avriel Bar-Levav
Translated by: Avriel Bar-Levav, The Open University of Israel

The Roaring Lion
See: Leon Modena's Ari Nohem Between Print and Manuscript
Yaacob Dweck
Translated by: Yaacob Dweck, Princeton University

Tsene Rene
See: A publisher in service of his readers: prefaces to Amsterdam 1711 edition of the Tsene Rene
Shlomo Berger
Translated by: Shlomo Berger, University of Amsterdam

Wonderful, strange, entertaining and amusing stories and deeds of the world-famous people of Schildburg
See: Early modern Yiddish readers
Ruth von Bernuth
Translated by: Ruth von Bernuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Wonderful, strange, entertaining and highly comical stories and deeds of the world-famous people of Schildburg
See: Early modern Yiddish readers
Ruth von Bernuth
Translated by: Ruth von Bernuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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