| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 491 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Brill reference library of Judaism,
1571-5000 ;
v. 37
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Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 37.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; Hebrew Book Arts; Chapter One Behold, You Are Beautiful, My Love: The Use of Ornamental Frames in Hebrew Incunabula; Chapter Two Akedat Yitzhak (the Binding of Isaac) on the Title-Pages of Early Hebrew Books; Chapter Three The Bear Motif on Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Hebrew Books; Makers and Places of Hebrew Books; Chapter Four In a Time of Plague: The First Hebrew Press in Adrianople; Chapter Five Abraham ha-Ger: A Proselyte Printer of Hebrew Books in Salonika; Chapter Six Kaf Nahat and the First Hebrew Press in Izmir. |
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Chapter Seven Often Overlooked: Hebrew Printing in Prostejov (Prossnitz)Chapter Eight Clarifying the Obfuscation Surrounding the Reissue of Sefer ha-Kavvanot; Chapter Nine Hebrew Printing in Padua: Resumed, but Briefly; Chapter Ten A Tale of Two Cities: Leipzig, Hamburg, and Don Isaac Abrabanel; Chapter Eleven Israel ben Abraham, His Hebrew Printing-Press in Wandsbeck and the Books He Published; Chapter Twelve He Should Be Called Sama'el: Michael Levi Rodkinson: The Life and Literary Career of a Jewish Scoundrel Revisited. |
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Chapter Thirteen Deciphering the Talmud: The First English Edition of the Talmud Revisited. Michael Levi Rodkinson: His Translation of the Talmud, and the Ensuing ControversyBook Varia; Chapter Fourteen Sixteen Leaves or Less: Small Hebrew Works of the Seventeenth Century; Chapter Fifteen Books Not Printed, Dreams Not Realized; Chapter Sixteen Sibling Rivalry: Simultaneous Editions of Hebrew Books; Chapter Seventeen Variations In and Between Early Hebrew Books; Chapter Eighteen Often Overlooked: Examples of Front Matter in Early Hebrew Books. |
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Chapter Nineteen What's in a Name? An Example of the Titling of Hebrew BooksChapter Twenty Who Can Discern His Errors? Misdates, Errors, and Deceptions, in and about Hebrew Books, Intentional and Otherwise; Chapter Twenty-One The Earliest Printings of the Talmud; Miscellanea; Chapter Twenty-Two Halakhic Continuity or Change? Medieval Sephardic Practice at the Seder; Chapter Twenty-Three Purim Seforim as/with Mishlo'ah Manot? A Sixteenth-Century Case Study; Index. |
| Summary |
Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book addresses a variety of aspects of the early Hebrew book often treated in a cursory manner. The essays encompass book arts, printing-places and printers, and unusual book varia. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Printing, Hebrew -- History.
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Printing, Hebrew. |
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History. |
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Hebrew imprints -- History.
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Hebrew imprints. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012066146
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heller, Marvin J. Essays. Selections. Further studies in the making of the early Hebrew book. Leiden : Brill, 2013 9789004234611 (DLC) 2012041743 (OCoLC)812791758 |
| ISBN |
9789004245242 (electronic book) |
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9004245243 (electronic book) |
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9789004234611 (electronic book) |
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9004234616 (electronic book) |
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