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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gries, Zeev (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hebrew
Publicado: Oxford, UK : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2014.
Colección:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.