First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing

by Joseph A. Skloot

Uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the Sefer Hasidim book.

In 1538, a partnership of Jewish silk makers in the city of Bologna published a book entitled Sefer Hasidim, a compendium of rituals, stories, and religious instruction that primarily originated in medieval Franco-Germany. How these men, of Italian and Spanish descent, came to produce a book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684581494
• ISBN13: 9781684581498
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"