In order to assess the development of books and reading in Europe during the 18th century, we have chosen to analyze three representative works of books printed in Frankfurt: an edifying treatise containing many mystical sources, Kav ha-yashar by Tsvi Hirsh Koidanover published in 1709 by Matthaüs Andreae; a Yiddish adaptation of narrative and ethical portions of the Zohar, Nahalat Tsvi by Tsvi Hirsh ben Yerahmiel Chotsch, printed in 1711 by Anton Heinscheidt; and an ethical treatise, Derekh ha-yashar le-olam ha-ba by Yehiel Mikhl ben Abraham Epstein, printed in 1717 by Anton Kellner. The study of the preparatory printing phase, the analysis of the books’ visual spaces, page layouts, technical choices, and the reception of the works provide...
Jewish Literature in the Yiddish Language (XVIth-XVIIth centuries) : Religious Crisis, vernacular Cu...
Christian printers of Hebrew books have long been recognized as a crucial factor in the spread of Ch...
Based on an analysis of the probate inventories of the burghers of the New Town of Prague in the 17t...
Hebrew printing was an important channel of cultural and religious expression for the Jews of early ...
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Amsterdam functioned as the European printing centre...
In this study I will consider how the Reformation affected the Jewish printers of sixteenth-century ...
The first edition of Sefer Hatashbeṣ, a collection of responsa printed in Amsterdam in 1739 at the p...
Der Artikel versucht zu definieren, was jüdische Buchdruckerzeichen sind (Geschichte, Symbolik, Meth...
In the contentious religious and political climate of the German empire between 1555 and 1630, ruler...
ABSTRACT : One of the main transformations in the Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe d...
Le développement de l’art typographique juif à Amsterdam au XVIIe s. a été étroitement lié au déclin...
This dissertation is a contribution to the fields of the history of the Hebrew book and early modern...
The aim of the submitted dissertation is to offer a complete bibliographical list of the documented ...
From the 17th century, the ideas of the Kabbalah began to be widely diffused, as can be seen, among ...
This dissertation examines Yiddish literature (1500-1950) as an alternative, even transgressive, veh...
Jewish Literature in the Yiddish Language (XVIth-XVIIth centuries) : Religious Crisis, vernacular Cu...
Christian printers of Hebrew books have long been recognized as a crucial factor in the spread of Ch...
Based on an analysis of the probate inventories of the burghers of the New Town of Prague in the 17t...
Hebrew printing was an important channel of cultural and religious expression for the Jews of early ...
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Amsterdam functioned as the European printing centre...
In this study I will consider how the Reformation affected the Jewish printers of sixteenth-century ...
The first edition of Sefer Hatashbeṣ, a collection of responsa printed in Amsterdam in 1739 at the p...
Der Artikel versucht zu definieren, was jüdische Buchdruckerzeichen sind (Geschichte, Symbolik, Meth...
In the contentious religious and political climate of the German empire between 1555 and 1630, ruler...
ABSTRACT : One of the main transformations in the Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe d...
Le développement de l’art typographique juif à Amsterdam au XVIIe s. a été étroitement lié au déclin...
This dissertation is a contribution to the fields of the history of the Hebrew book and early modern...
The aim of the submitted dissertation is to offer a complete bibliographical list of the documented ...
From the 17th century, the ideas of the Kabbalah began to be widely diffused, as can be seen, among ...
This dissertation examines Yiddish literature (1500-1950) as an alternative, even transgressive, veh...
Jewish Literature in the Yiddish Language (XVIth-XVIIth centuries) : Religious Crisis, vernacular Cu...
Christian printers of Hebrew books have long been recognized as a crucial factor in the spread of Ch...
Based on an analysis of the probate inventories of the burghers of the New Town of Prague in the 17t...