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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684581508
• ISBN13: 9781684581504
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 268 Pages