The book in the Jewish world : 1700-1900 /
This book offers the reader a voyage in the new world that opened up to the enlightened Jewish reader of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time when the first glimmerings of emancipation and secular education were giving large numbers of Jews their first exposure to science, literature, and...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese ebraico |
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Oxford, UK :
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
2014.
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| Serie: | Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1rmhbx |
Sommario:
- Expanding horizons
- On reading and readers
- Elite literature : Halakhic works and textual commentaries
- Ethical literature in Hebrew and Yiddish
- On libraries private and public
- Kabbalistic literature and its role in Hasidism
- Literature for women and children only, or for everyone?
- The new Hebrew literature : continuity or revolution?
- Jewish books and their authors in the nineteenth century
- Book reviews in the Hebrew press
- The bibliographer and librarian as an agent of culture : the contribution of Abraham Yaʼari to the study of Jewish publishing in Eastern Europe
- Afterword : the revolution in the world of Hebrew books at the start of the twentieth century.