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Katrin Kogman-Appel, Elisheva Baumgarten, Elisabeth Hollender, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (eds)
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Perception and Awareness: Artefacts and Imageries in Medieval European Jewish Cultures
, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 360 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:57 b/w, 65 col., 1 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503583945.
Summary What did the world look like for Jews living in medieval Europe? How did they perceive and make use of the elements of their daily life, from items on the street to religious iconography within holy spaces ? in particular synagogues and at the exterior of churches ? and profane elements from the home? And how did they experience the visual and material cultures of their non-Jewish neighbours? These questions form the core of this volume, which explores pre-modern Jewish approaches to images and material objects from a variety of perspectives. From clothing to manuscripts, and from lighting devices to the understanding of the invisible, the chapters gathered together in this multifaceted volume combine analyses of images and artefacts together with in-depth analyses of texts to offer fresh insights into the visual cultures that informed the world of European Jews in the Middle Ages. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Elisheva Baumgarten, Elisabeth Hollender, Katrin Kogman-Appel, and Ephraim Shoham-Steiner Part One: The Perception of the Visual, the Material, and the Tangible in Shared Public Spaces 1. The Writing on the Wall ? A Mahzor, a Bimah, and a Privilege. A Look at Social Processes in the 13th-Century Jewish Community of Cologne Ephraim Shoham-Steiner 2. Illuminations: Lights, Identities, and the Society of Spectacle in the Late Middle Ages Eleazar Gutwirth 3. Materialization of Memoria Memory and Remembrance of Benefactors in Building Inscriptions in Medieval Ashkenaz Rainer Josef Barzen 4. Differing Perceptions of Church Garments and Worship Implements in the Writings and Thought of the Tosafists Ephraim Kanarfogel 5. Not Black and White Clothes and Difference in Medieval Ashkenaz Elisheva Baumgarten Part Two: Utilizing the Faculties of Visual Means 6. Jewish Chivalry in Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Sara Offenberg 7. The Handling of Diagrams in Medieval Scientific Manuscript Transmission The Sefer ha-mar?im le-Eqlides and its First Proposition Sabine Arndt 8. Non-Verbal Aspects of Astrolabe Knowledge (Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Manuscripts) Josefina Rodr guez-Arribas 9. Artifacts that Desire Medieval Perspectives Kalman P. Bland (OBM) 10.The Agency of Images The Temple Vessels in Hebrew Bibles from Roussillon (c. 1300) Katrin Kogman-Appel 11.Visualizing the Invisible: Portrayals of Elijah the Prophet in Fifteenth-Century Ashkenazi Haggadot Chana Shaham-Rosby 12.Visualizing Divine Communication in Medieval Jewish Art Shulamit Laderman Index About the Authors
Premodern Jewish Books, their Makers and Readers in an Era of Media Change
, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 464 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:106 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503604633.
Summary This volume brings together studies about books as artefacts within transitional zones. The history of the book from the handwritten to the printed medium is understood as a process marked by innovation and social change, but also by disorientation and bewilderment. The journey of a book from production to use was determined by a complex set of factors: communication among authors, makers of books, patrons, and readership; the emergence of publishers; and decisions to be made concerning production and publication. These factors underwent tremendous changes during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries owing to the spread of printing and the rise of Humanism in Europe. Particular focus is put on the physical evidence of books, both handwritten and printed, and what it can tell us about a book's production and its reception. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Katrin Kogman-Appel and Ilona Steimann Part One: Media Change Chapter 1: Changes in Bookmaking: Joel ben Simeon's Manuscripts in the Transition from Customized to Mass Production? Rodica?Herlo-Lukowski Chapter 2: Joel ben Simeon in Transition Evelyn M. Cohen Chapter 3: Jewish Books between Portugal to the Early Sefardi Diaspora.? D bora Marques de Matos Chapter 4: The Emergence of the Printing Self: Egodocuments and Micro-Egodocuments in Jewish Paratexts from Manuscript to Print Avriel Bar-Levav Chapter 5: From Manuscript to Print and Back Again. Two Case Studies in Late Sixteenth-Century Jewish Book Culture Pavel Sl dek Chapter 6: Lishmah Qedushat Sefer Torah or the Impossibility of Printing a Kosher Torah Scroll from Rabbinic Perspectives Annett Martini Part Two: The Craft of Editing Chapter 7: The 1514 'Grace after Meals and Sabbath Hymns and Qiddush' and the Experimental Beginnings of Woodcut Illustrations in Prague Sarit Shalev-Eyni Chapter 8: Hayyim Shahor and Jewish Life in Sixteenth-Century Ashkenaz Lucia Raspe Chapter 9: Of Roots and Signs: Printing Ashkenazi Responsa in Sixteenth-Century Venice Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg Part Three: Reading Chapter 10: The Masorete and His Readers: A Relationship Obscured Now Rediscovered Dalia-Ruth Halperin Chapter 11: Early Hebrew Printing and the Quality of Reading: A Praxeological Study Hanna Liss Chapter 12: Hegemonies of Reading. Layout, Materiality, and Authorship in Early Hebrew Prints Federico Dal Bo ? Part Four: Confiscation and Destruction Chapter 14: Burning the Talmud. Before and After Print David Stern Chapter 15: The Bookless Talmud and the Talmud Book: The Loss of Books in the Medieval and Early Modern World? Yakov Z. Mayer ? Part Five: Christian Collections Chapter 16: A Medieval Hebrew Psalter with Latin Glosses (MS Paris, BnF h breu 113) and Its Cambridge Connection ? Judith Olszowy-Schlanger Chapter 17: A Forced Journey between Two Faiths. The Hebrew Manuscripts of the University of Vienna Ilona Steimann? Chapter 18: 'Ben Hacane Liber qui dicitur Pelia'. Egidio da Viterbo's Kabbalistic Excerpts Saverio Campanini? Chapter 19: Alfonso de Zamora and Hebrew Manuscripts on Grammar and Exegesis in Sixteenth-Century Spain Javier del Barco Chapter 20: On the Beginnings of Christian Hebraist Bibliography in the Sixteenth Century Maximilian de Moli re Manuscript Index General Index
Catalan Maps and Jewish Books The Intellectual Profile of Elisha ben Abraham Cresques (1325-1387)
, Brepols 2020, 2020 Hardcover, 358 pages with 122 coloured illustrations, English, 275 x 220 mm, perfect condition, . ISBN 9782503585482.
This books describes the life of Elisa ben Abraham Cresques, known to many as the author of the Catalan Atlas, and focuses on the Jewish aspects of his fascinating career, his professional profile, and his scholarship. This book presents a small chapter in the intellectual history of the Jews of Majorca. Its key figure is Elisha ben Abraham Bevenisti Cresques (1325?1387) a cartographer in the service of King Peter IV of Aragon and a scribe and illuminator of Hebrew books. Elisha Cresques? career evolves at a point in time when some of the most fascinating threads of methodological interests relevant to intellectual history meet. He emerges as a hub, so to speak, where mapmaking converged with scribal work, miniature painting with scientific knowledge, and the culture of a minority with that of the majority. How he was able to negotiate his patron?s expectations and his own cultural identity and frame them within the political, cultural, and religious discourses of his time is the subject of this book.
