I am happy to post events and lectures outside the University of Pennsylvania as well...
Spinoza in the Library of an Early Modern Dutch Sephardic Rabbi
>>>
>>> Yosef Kaplan, Hebrew University
>>>
>>> Wednesday, February 20, 5:00PM, Logan Hall 402
>>>
>>> Rabbi David Nunes Torres had been the rabbi of one of the Sephardic
>>> congregations in The Hague at the beginning of the eighteenth
>>> century.
>>> About three months after his death in 1728, his impressive library,
>>> which contained more than 2,000 volumes in eight languages, was put
>>> up for sale. Some of the large blocs that comprise this library
>>> reflect in the clearest fashion the intellectual ferment of Nunes
>>> Torres'
>>> generation and his purposeful and sophisticated collection of books
>>> made him, willy-nilly, a secret agent of the early enlightenment in
>>> the Sephardic Diaspora of Western Europe, and even in Dutch society
>>> at large.
>>>
>>> Yosef Kaplan is the Bernard Cherrick Professor of Jewish History at
>>> the Hebrew University. His books include: An Alternative Path to
>>> Modernity; Judios Nuevos en Amsterdam; The Western Sephardi
>>> Diaspora; From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio de
>>> Castro; and a translation (with introduction and notes) of Isaac
>>> Cardoso's, Las Excelencias de los Hebreos. He has edited and
>>> co-edited 14 books, among
>>> them: The Dutch Intersection: The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern
>>> History; Fins de Siecle -- End of Ages; Dutch Jews as Perceived by
>>> Themselves and by Others; Menasseh ben Israel and His World, and
>>> Jews and Conversos. Studies in Society and the Inquisition.
>>>
>>> Kaplan is the former Director of the School of History at the Hebrew
>>> University and former editor of Tarbiz and Zion. He was awarded the
>>> A.
>>> Wiznitzer Prize and the Ben Zvi Prize, and in 2004 he was elected
>>> fellow of the Israel Academy for Sciences and Humanities. He is
>>> currently a fellow at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced
>>> Study.
>>>
>>> Part of the Jewish Studies Kutchin Faculty Seminar Series, and
>>> co-sponsored by the Department of History. Event is free and open to
>>> the public. No RSVP necessary. Questions? 215-898-6654 or
>>> jsp-info@ccat.sas.upenn.edu --Beth S. Wenger Katz Family Term Chair
>>> in American Jewish History Associate Professor of History Director,
>>> Jewish Studies Program
>>>
>>> Department of History
>>> University of Pennsylvania
>>> 208 College Hall
>>> Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379
>>>
>>> Phone: 215-898-5702
>>> Fax: 215-573-2089
>>> E-mail: bwenger@sas.upenn.edu
>>>
>>
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
World Congress of Jewish Studies: Call for Proposals
Dear Colleagues,
The Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies will take place from August 2-6 of 2009. If there is sufficient interest I would like to organize a session on “The Jewish Book in Early Modern Europe.” I have left the theme deliberately vague so as to allow for submissions on authors and their texts, printing, distribution and the ultimate fate of the books produced. (I am open to narrowing the focus of the session theme). I was thinking of speaking on Christian awareness of Hebrew printed books, specifically on Conrad Gesner’s Bibliotheca universalis (3 vols., 1545-1555). While Gesner’s listings are not very extensive, they did provide enough titles to form the basis for a meaningful Christian encounter with Judaism by way of its classical texts.
If I have read the call for papers correctly we will all have to submit a preliminary registration form, and I would also submit materials for a complete session, providing the following information:
“Those interested in proposing a complete session (up to four lectures) are requested to specify the subject of the session and the names of the scholars whose agreement to participate has already been obtained. A brief explanation and a short abstract of the proposed lectures should also be submitted.”
So I would need paper topics and short abstracts from each presenter before I turn in all of the information. The submission deadline is May 18, 2008.
Are there any takers?
Best wishes,
Stephen Burnett
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
sburnett1@unl.edu
www.jewish-studies.org/ShowDoc.asp?MenuID=118
The Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies will take place from August 2-6 of 2009. If there is sufficient interest I would like to organize a session on “The Jewish Book in Early Modern Europe.” I have left the theme deliberately vague so as to allow for submissions on authors and their texts, printing, distribution and the ultimate fate of the books produced. (I am open to narrowing the focus of the session theme). I was thinking of speaking on Christian awareness of Hebrew printed books, specifically on Conrad Gesner’s Bibliotheca universalis (3 vols., 1545-1555). While Gesner’s listings are not very extensive, they did provide enough titles to form the basis for a meaningful Christian encounter with Judaism by way of its classical texts.
If I have read the call for papers correctly we will all have to submit a preliminary registration form, and I would also submit materials for a complete session, providing the following information:
“Those interested in proposing a complete session (up to four lectures) are requested to specify the subject of the session and the names of the scholars whose agreement to participate has already been obtained. A brief explanation and a short abstract of the proposed lectures should also be submitted.”
So I would need paper topics and short abstracts from each presenter before I turn in all of the information. The submission deadline is May 18, 2008.
Are there any takers?
Best wishes,
Stephen Burnett
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
sburnett1@unl.edu
www.jewish-studies.org/ShowDoc.asp?MenuID=118
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Events/Lectures
I would be very happy to post notices of seminars, lectures, workshops, conferences, etc. related to Jewish books. Send them my way--ashear at pitt dot edu--and I will post them here.
Here is one:
University of Pennsylvania
Material Texts seminar, Monday, February 11 at
5:15 pm in the Lea Library on the 6th floor of Van Pelt Library:
Yaacob Dweck (University of Pennsylvania):
"Jewish Scribal Culture in an Age of Print: The Writing Practices of Leon
Modena"
Yaacob writes: "This presentation will examine the composition and
circulation of manuscripts in early modern Venice through the writings of
Leon Modena (157-1648). Modena, a rabbi and intellectual who lived in
Venice, composed several Hebrew polemics in the last decades of his life.
None of these texts, which included attacks on Kabbalah, Christianity, and
the belief in metempsychosis, appeared in print before the nineteenth
century. Using Modena's critique of Kabbalah, a work called Ari Nohem
(Heb. A Roaring Lion) I will focus on two issues: the nature of an
autograph in the early seventeenth century and the importance placed on
the material form of various texts in Modena's argument. In the first
part, I will examine Modena's writing practices and demonstrate that he
wrote his works in collaboration with an amanuensis, a practice typical
for Jewish and Christian intellectuals writing in Venice in the early
seventeenth century. In the second part, I will examine Ari Nohem as a
reflection upon the effects of printing on the transmission of Jewish
knowledge. In Ari Nohem Modena decries the effects of printing upon the
dissemination of Kabbalah, the adjudication of Jewish law, and the
accessibility of knowledge to a wider range of people. I hope
to demonstrate that the scribal aspects of Ari Nohem not only inform the
immediate working environment of the book's author, but also the content
of the work."
Yaacob Dweck is a fifth-year graduate student in history at Penn.
Here is one:
University of Pennsylvania
Material Texts seminar, Monday, February 11 at
5:15 pm in the Lea Library on the 6th floor of Van Pelt Library:
Yaacob Dweck (University of Pennsylvania):
"Jewish Scribal Culture in an Age of Print: The Writing Practices of Leon
Modena"
Yaacob writes: "This presentation will examine the composition and
circulation of manuscripts in early modern Venice through the writings of
Leon Modena (157-1648). Modena, a rabbi and intellectual who lived in
Venice, composed several Hebrew polemics in the last decades of his life.
None of these texts, which included attacks on Kabbalah, Christianity, and
the belief in metempsychosis, appeared in print before the nineteenth
century. Using Modena's critique of Kabbalah, a work called Ari Nohem
(Heb. A Roaring Lion) I will focus on two issues: the nature of an
autograph in the early seventeenth century and the importance placed on
the material form of various texts in Modena's argument. In the first
part, I will examine Modena's writing practices and demonstrate that he
wrote his works in collaboration with an amanuensis, a practice typical
for Jewish and Christian intellectuals writing in Venice in the early
seventeenth century. In the second part, I will examine Ari Nohem as a
reflection upon the effects of printing on the transmission of Jewish
knowledge. In Ari Nohem Modena decries the effects of printing upon the
dissemination of Kabbalah, the adjudication of Jewish law, and the
accessibility of knowledge to a wider range of people. I hope
to demonstrate that the scribal aspects of Ari Nohem not only inform the
immediate working environment of the book's author, but also the content
of the work."
Yaacob Dweck is a fifth-year graduate student in history at Penn.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Heidi Lerner's Comments for the Working Group Meeting
Heidi Lerner
Jewish Books and the Academic Library
I was honored to be invited to join the Working Group on the History of the Jewish Book. I am not able to attend AJS this year but have sent in a few words that hopefully will add some perspectives on the relations between academic libraries and the study of the Jewish book. I look forward to continuing and expanding our conversation at next year’s AJS.
Universities and colleges throughout Europe, Israel and North America have collected in their libraries and made accessible Jewish books since the 1700s. They hired and retained specially trained staff that selected materials, and developed classification, indexing and cataloging methods to organize these items systematically. Catalogs of these institutions reflect the holdings that support the study of Jewish religion, history, society, politics, languages, culture and literature.
During the past two decades rapidly evolving electronic and information technologies have been and are actively changing scholarly research in Jewish Studies. The current and new generations of Jewish Studies scholars and academics must be prepared for these changes or face the consequences of not keeping up with them. University libraries as repositories and Jewish Studies librarians, as information specialists are uniquely equipped to help scholars integrate traditional and new resources into their research methodologies.
Jewish Studies scholars have traditionally relied on printed or paper-based tools to carry out their research. Electronic versions of our textual legacy are becoming increasingly important. Previous decades saw the appearance of digital literary collections on CD-ROM. Today, universities, libraries, archives, and other institutions and organizations are digitizing print versions of Judaica-related books and mounting them on the web. These collections contain searchable or non-searchable images from printed editions, or keyed-in digital texts. Some notable examples emanating from university libraries are the Yiddish Prints Collection at the Universitatsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, the Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository, the University of Pennsylvania/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project and the Bibliotheca Rosenthalia’s holdings of works by Manasseh ben Israel. Academic librarians have been the main ones in their institutions who decide which texts get digitized or consult with faculty on selecting bodies of materials for electronic preservation and dissemination. Of course mass digitization projects undertaken by companies such as Google are taking the decision-making out of the hands of librarians and faculty in participating institutions, except for where rare or very fragile materials are concerned. Librarians also determine how access to internal and external collections of digital materials is made available to their university library patrons.
Scholars and other individuals are turning to digital technologies to create new editions of classic texts and also “digitally born” editions of new books. Zachary Baker, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections at Stanford University has recently accessioned into the Stanford University Libraries collection and had cataloged for its library online catalog: the “Ladino Digital Library”, a corpus of new electronic editions of printed Ladino texts and the “Zohar Pritzker edition, Aramaic Text Online.” Also recently “added” to the Stanford library’s collections is “Rabanim She-nisifu Ba-Sho’ah”, an electronic text written and published on the Internet in 2007 in an HTML format by Peninah Maizlish. The catalog records for these items have also been added to OCLC WorldCat which is becoming a de-facto union catalog for printed and electronic Judaica and Hebraica texts.
Universities continue to collect and scholars continue to use printed books. Stanford adds approximately 60,000 new printed volumes to its collections each year. University libraries receive regular and ongoing acquisitions from vendors in the area of Jewish Studies based on selection profiles developed by bibliographers who understand and anticipate the research needs of their institution’s faculty and students. Jewish Studies librarians are always on the lookout for specialized textual materials which make a university’s Judaica and Hebraica collections even more unique. Stanford has acquired in recent years, the Eliasaf Robinson Collection on Tel Aviv, a heterogeneous body of printed works (books, journals, posters and other ephemera), archival documents and pictorial materials on the founding and early history of Tel Aviv, and the historic Hebrew Library of Copenhagen's Jewish community.
But with the ongoing acquisition of physical items, university libraries are under increasing pressure to find ways to store their holdings and to make room for new materials. In many cases they are building onsite and offsite high-density storage facilities to accommodate growing print collections. Librarians must come up with the best strategies and solutions to buffer the expectations and needs of faculty and students against the requirements of university administrations.
The role of the university library and librarians in supporting and providing access to Judaica and Hebraica textual materials in a variety of formats is crucial. They are uniquely placed to think about and decide how and where users can access library collections, monitor the use of these collections, decide what is and is not collected, think about how and where these materials are stored, how much cataloging and indexing is provided, and how and what to preserve within library collections.
Thank you for allowing me to add these few words. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact me at any time.
Jewish Books and the Academic Library
I was honored to be invited to join the Working Group on the History of the Jewish Book. I am not able to attend AJS this year but have sent in a few words that hopefully will add some perspectives on the relations between academic libraries and the study of the Jewish book. I look forward to continuing and expanding our conversation at next year’s AJS.
Universities and colleges throughout Europe, Israel and North America have collected in their libraries and made accessible Jewish books since the 1700s. They hired and retained specially trained staff that selected materials, and developed classification, indexing and cataloging methods to organize these items systematically. Catalogs of these institutions reflect the holdings that support the study of Jewish religion, history, society, politics, languages, culture and literature.
During the past two decades rapidly evolving electronic and information technologies have been and are actively changing scholarly research in Jewish Studies. The current and new generations of Jewish Studies scholars and academics must be prepared for these changes or face the consequences of not keeping up with them. University libraries as repositories and Jewish Studies librarians, as information specialists are uniquely equipped to help scholars integrate traditional and new resources into their research methodologies.
Jewish Studies scholars have traditionally relied on printed or paper-based tools to carry out their research. Electronic versions of our textual legacy are becoming increasingly important. Previous decades saw the appearance of digital literary collections on CD-ROM. Today, universities, libraries, archives, and other institutions and organizations are digitizing print versions of Judaica-related books and mounting them on the web. These collections contain searchable or non-searchable images from printed editions, or keyed-in digital texts. Some notable examples emanating from university libraries are the Yiddish Prints Collection at the Universitatsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, the Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository, the University of Pennsylvania/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project and the Bibliotheca Rosenthalia’s holdings of works by Manasseh ben Israel. Academic librarians have been the main ones in their institutions who decide which texts get digitized or consult with faculty on selecting bodies of materials for electronic preservation and dissemination. Of course mass digitization projects undertaken by companies such as Google are taking the decision-making out of the hands of librarians and faculty in participating institutions, except for where rare or very fragile materials are concerned. Librarians also determine how access to internal and external collections of digital materials is made available to their university library patrons.
Scholars and other individuals are turning to digital technologies to create new editions of classic texts and also “digitally born” editions of new books. Zachary Baker, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections at Stanford University has recently accessioned into the Stanford University Libraries collection and had cataloged for its library online catalog: the “Ladino Digital Library”, a corpus of new electronic editions of printed Ladino texts and the “Zohar Pritzker edition, Aramaic Text Online.” Also recently “added” to the Stanford library’s collections is “Rabanim She-nisifu Ba-Sho’ah”, an electronic text written and published on the Internet in 2007 in an HTML format by Peninah Maizlish. The catalog records for these items have also been added to OCLC WorldCat which is becoming a de-facto union catalog for printed and electronic Judaica and Hebraica texts.
Universities continue to collect and scholars continue to use printed books. Stanford adds approximately 60,000 new printed volumes to its collections each year. University libraries receive regular and ongoing acquisitions from vendors in the area of Jewish Studies based on selection profiles developed by bibliographers who understand and anticipate the research needs of their institution’s faculty and students. Jewish Studies librarians are always on the lookout for specialized textual materials which make a university’s Judaica and Hebraica collections even more unique. Stanford has acquired in recent years, the Eliasaf Robinson Collection on Tel Aviv, a heterogeneous body of printed works (books, journals, posters and other ephemera), archival documents and pictorial materials on the founding and early history of Tel Aviv, and the historic Hebrew Library of Copenhagen's Jewish community.
But with the ongoing acquisition of physical items, university libraries are under increasing pressure to find ways to store their holdings and to make room for new materials. In many cases they are building onsite and offsite high-density storage facilities to accommodate growing print collections. Librarians must come up with the best strategies and solutions to buffer the expectations and needs of faculty and students against the requirements of university administrations.
The role of the university library and librarians in supporting and providing access to Judaica and Hebraica textual materials in a variety of formats is crucial. They are uniquely placed to think about and decide how and where users can access library collections, monitor the use of these collections, decide what is and is not collected, think about how and where these materials are stored, how much cataloging and indexing is provided, and how and what to preserve within library collections.
Thank you for allowing me to add these few words. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact me at any time.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Summary of Working Group meeting in Toronto
As promised, here is a report on our meeting in Toronto at the Association for Jewish Studies conference.
Our chair, Joe Davis (Gratz College), was snowed out, so we chaired ourselves, as it were. I began by describing how the meeting had come about. At a conference on the Jewish book at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2006, David Stern (University of Pennsylvania) had lamented the lack of institutional frameworks for the study of Jewish books. At the time, Joe Davis, David Stern, and I talked a little about organizing something to promote the field. Before this year's AJS call for papers deadline, Hindy Najman (Toronto), Jeremy Stolow (McMaster), and Heidi Lerner (Stanford) joined the discussion, and this lunch-time meeting was the result.
David Stern then spoke about some of the problems and prospects for the field, noting very few opportunities to study Hebrew bibliography and codicology. He also pointed out the advantages of using material texts in pedagogy.
Hindy Najman then spoke from the perspective of a scholar of Judaism in late antiquity and discussed the issue of the "book" in a pre-book culture. On the one hand, she pointed out that medieval and early modern studies generate interesting questions about the role of written texts that can be used to interrogate and investigate the ancient period. She also pointed out that books seemed to have played a role in the Jewish imagination before physical books (codices) were used.
Jeremy Stolow spoke from the perspective of someone in communication studies focusing on the question of the role of the medium. He pointed out the ways in which communication scholars research not only the means of production and transmission of texts, but also the interaction of the "end-user" with the medium.
I spoke from my perspective as a cultural and intellectual historian, focused on early modern Jews and pointed out the importance of integrating the study of books as both texts and material objects into more general historical research. While many in Jewish studies have examined the materiality of books to assess the "reliability" of the texts inside, I suggested that we need to not only look at what's inside, but also at the vessel (cf. Mishnah Avot 4:20).
I also summarized remarks by Heidi Lerner (who could not be in Toronto). Her remarks were from the point of view of a librarian and she emphasized the role of academic libraries in mediating access to texts in both electronic and paper forms. She emphasized the importance of digital resources in research and teaching but also the continued relevance of printed materials.
After this remarks, the discussion turned toward practical steps that might be taken in the future to promote the study of the "Jewish book."
(This blog was one of the suggestions.)
David Kraemer (of the Jewish Theological Seminary) was going to join the meeting to discuss a new journal, "Quntress: An Online Journal for the History, Art, and Culture of the Jewish Book." He could not be at the meeting but we discussed this journal and the important contribution it is expected to make to the field.
Miriam Bodian (Touro College) suggested that someone propose a review essay to AJS Review or another journal laying out the state of the field.
Many participants expressed an interest in planning sessions on the Jewish book at the Association for Jewish Studies and other meetings.
Susan Einbinder (Hebrew Union College) pointed out that there are sessions devoted to the history of the book at the annual Congress on Medieval Studies held at Kalamazoo every May. Those interested in participating in those sessions should contact her.
Another venue discussed was the American Academy of Religion. The coordinators of the Study of Judaism section are Aryeh Cohen (American Jewish University) and Martin Kavka (Florida State University). Those interested in proposing a session on the history of the Jewish book at AAR should contact them.
Finally, Vivian Mann (JTS) and Jane Trigere (independent scholar) both reminded the group to focus on decorative and aesthetic aspects of Jewish books, Jane Trigere suggested that we bring into the conversation people who make books as well as those who study them.
That's a rough summary of the meeting. No formal action was taken--no constitutions were drawn up, nobody was elected to anything, etc. I volunteered to create a blog and post this summary.
The blog is here to facilitate discussion and action. Use the comments as you see fit.
Also feel free to send me announcements or remarks suitable for separate posts--calls for papers, announcements of programs and events, etc.
Respectfully submitted,
Adam Shear
ashear@pitt.edu
Our chair, Joe Davis (Gratz College), was snowed out, so we chaired ourselves, as it were. I began by describing how the meeting had come about. At a conference on the Jewish book at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2006, David Stern (University of Pennsylvania) had lamented the lack of institutional frameworks for the study of Jewish books. At the time, Joe Davis, David Stern, and I talked a little about organizing something to promote the field. Before this year's AJS call for papers deadline, Hindy Najman (Toronto), Jeremy Stolow (McMaster), and Heidi Lerner (Stanford) joined the discussion, and this lunch-time meeting was the result.
David Stern then spoke about some of the problems and prospects for the field, noting very few opportunities to study Hebrew bibliography and codicology. He also pointed out the advantages of using material texts in pedagogy.
Hindy Najman then spoke from the perspective of a scholar of Judaism in late antiquity and discussed the issue of the "book" in a pre-book culture. On the one hand, she pointed out that medieval and early modern studies generate interesting questions about the role of written texts that can be used to interrogate and investigate the ancient period. She also pointed out that books seemed to have played a role in the Jewish imagination before physical books (codices) were used.
Jeremy Stolow spoke from the perspective of someone in communication studies focusing on the question of the role of the medium. He pointed out the ways in which communication scholars research not only the means of production and transmission of texts, but also the interaction of the "end-user" with the medium.
I spoke from my perspective as a cultural and intellectual historian, focused on early modern Jews and pointed out the importance of integrating the study of books as both texts and material objects into more general historical research. While many in Jewish studies have examined the materiality of books to assess the "reliability" of the texts inside, I suggested that we need to not only look at what's inside, but also at the vessel (cf. Mishnah Avot 4:20).
I also summarized remarks by Heidi Lerner (who could not be in Toronto). Her remarks were from the point of view of a librarian and she emphasized the role of academic libraries in mediating access to texts in both electronic and paper forms. She emphasized the importance of digital resources in research and teaching but also the continued relevance of printed materials.
After this remarks, the discussion turned toward practical steps that might be taken in the future to promote the study of the "Jewish book."
(This blog was one of the suggestions.)
David Kraemer (of the Jewish Theological Seminary) was going to join the meeting to discuss a new journal, "Quntress: An Online Journal for the History, Art, and Culture of the Jewish Book." He could not be at the meeting but we discussed this journal and the important contribution it is expected to make to the field.
Miriam Bodian (Touro College) suggested that someone propose a review essay to AJS Review or another journal laying out the state of the field.
Many participants expressed an interest in planning sessions on the Jewish book at the Association for Jewish Studies and other meetings.
Susan Einbinder (Hebrew Union College) pointed out that there are sessions devoted to the history of the book at the annual Congress on Medieval Studies held at Kalamazoo every May. Those interested in participating in those sessions should contact her.
Another venue discussed was the American Academy of Religion. The coordinators of the Study of Judaism section are Aryeh Cohen (American Jewish University) and Martin Kavka (Florida State University). Those interested in proposing a session on the history of the Jewish book at AAR should contact them.
Finally, Vivian Mann (JTS) and Jane Trigere (independent scholar) both reminded the group to focus on decorative and aesthetic aspects of Jewish books, Jane Trigere suggested that we bring into the conversation people who make books as well as those who study them.
That's a rough summary of the meeting. No formal action was taken--no constitutions were drawn up, nobody was elected to anything, etc. I volunteered to create a blog and post this summary.
The blog is here to facilitate discussion and action. Use the comments as you see fit.
Also feel free to send me announcements or remarks suitable for separate posts--calls for papers, announcements of programs and events, etc.
Respectfully submitted,
Adam Shear
ashear@pitt.edu
Friday, December 21, 2007
Welcome
The purpose of this blog is to exchange information among scholars in the many fields of Jewish studies who share an interest in the study of "Jewish books." It will be difficult to find consensus about what either of those terms mean and we intend to intepret them broadly. We are generally interested in how Jews, past and present, produced, used, and transmitted texts of various sorts and in various media.
This blog grows out of an ad hoc group that met at the Association for Jewish Studies meeting in Toronto, Canada in December 2007 to discuss prospects for institutional frameworks and other activities to promote the study of the history of the book within Jewish studies.
Comments and ideas are welcome.
This blog grows out of an ad hoc group that met at the Association for Jewish Studies meeting in Toronto, Canada in December 2007 to discuss prospects for institutional frameworks and other activities to promote the study of the history of the book within Jewish studies.
Comments and ideas are welcome.
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