'Genizat Germania': Hebrew and Aramaic Binding Fragments from Germany in Context
This volume presents the discovery of several hundred new Hebrew and Aramaic manuscript fragments in Germany. It is a collection of conference papers that discuss the historical, paleographical, and cultural significance of these fragments. It is the first in a series of studies of similar findings...
| Summary: | This volume presents the discovery of several hundred new Hebrew and Aramaic manuscript fragments in Germany. It is a collection of conference papers that discuss the historical, paleographical, and cultural significance of these fragments. It is the first in a series of studies of similar findings in Europe. Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Introduction (Andreas Lehnardt) -- PART I STUDIES IN 'GENIZAT GERMANIA' -- Puzzling the Past: Reconstructing a Mahzor from Receipt Wrappings (Saskia Dönitz) -- Images Tell a Tale of Place and Time: A Methodological Study of Artwork in Service of Context (Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig) -- Reconstructing Manuscripts: The Liturgical Fragments from Trier (Elisabeth Hollender) -- Makulierte hebräische Handschriften in Eberhardsklausen- eine bibliotheks- und literaturgeschichtliche Untersuchung (Marco Brösch) -- The Discovery of Medieval Targum and Mahzor Fragments in Freiberg/Saxony (Andreas Kunz-Lübcke) -- PART II STUDIES IN THE "EUROPEAN GENIZAH -- Hebräische Dokumente und Geschichtsquellen in der "Europäischen Geniza" (Abraham David) -- Calamus or Chisel: On the History of the Ashkenazic Script (Edna Engel) -- An Early Ashkenazi Fragment of the Babylonian Talmud from the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow (Judith Olszowy-Schlanger) -- New Fragments of Unknown Biblical Commentaries from the "European Genizah" (Simcha Emanuel) -- 385 Printed Books of the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Bound with Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts in the Estense Library in Modena (Mauro Perani with the cooperation of Emmanuela Mongardi and Ezra Chwat) -- Commentaries on the Azharot and Other Liturgical Poems Found in the Biblioteca Civica of Alessandria (Saverio Campanini) -- Ein neues Fragment zu Sifre Devarim (Michael Krupp) -- PART III EUROPEAN PROJECTS -- Genizat Austria: The "Hebrew Manuscripts and Fragments in Austrian Libraries" Project (Josef Oesch) -- Hebrew Manuscript Fragments in the Czech Republic: A Preliminary Report (Daniel Polakovic) -- PART IV BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Bibliography of the "European Genizah" (Andreas Lehnardt) -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects -- Color Plates. |
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| ISBN: | 9047443845 |