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Picturing Yiddish : gender, identity, and memory in the illustrated Yiddish books of Renaissance Italy / by Diane Wolfthal.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks NC982 .W65 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfthal, Diane.
- Series:
- Brill's series in Jewish studies 0926-2261 ; v. 36.
- Brill's series in Jewish studies, 0926-2261 ; v. 36
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bibliothèque nationale de France--Manuscript--Héb. 586--Illustrations.
- Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- Illustration of books--Italy--16th century.
- Illustration of books.
- Yiddish imprints--Italy--History--16th century.
- Yiddish imprints.
- Illustrated books--Italy--History--16th century.
- Illustrated books.
- Manuscripts, Yiddish--France--Paris.
- Manuscripts, Yiddish.
- Jews in art.
- Women in art.
- Christianity and other religions--Judaism.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Judaism.
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
- Relations.
- Christianity.
- History.
- France--Paris.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 283 pages, 118 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Summary:
- This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books from sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs, and four printed volumes - two books of customs, a chivalric romance, and a book of fables.
- Contents:
- Part 1 An Illustrated Manuscript of Jewish Customs (Paris BN MS. Heb. 586)
- Chapter 1 Introduction to the Paris Book of Customs (Paris BN MS. Heb. 586) 3
- Chapter 2 The Beginnings of a New Pictorial Tradition 26
- Chapter 3 Representing Jewish Ritual and Identity in the Paris Book of Customs and its Christian Counterparts 44
- Chapter 4 Representing Diversity within the Community: The Absence of Rabbis and the Presence of Women 63
- Part 2 The Printed Books of Customs (Venice, 1593 and 1600)
- Chapter 5 Introduction to the Printed Books of Customs 87
- Chapter 6 Marriage and Memory: Images of Marriage Rituals in Yiddish Books of Customs 111
- Chapter 7 Remembering Amalek and Nebuchadnezzar: Biblical Warfare and Symbolic Violence in Images in the Yiddish Books of Customs 132
- Part 3 The Secular Yiddish Books, Paris Un Viene and the Kuh-Bukh (Verona, 1594 and 1595)
- Chapter 8 Cultural Exchange and Jewish Identity in Images in Secular Illustrated Yiddish Books 157
- Chapter 9 Picturing Romantic Passion, Illicit Sexuality, and Women's Agency in Secular Yiddish Books 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004139052
- OCLC:
- 54691793
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