| January
11 |
|
Menahem
Blondheim/Hebrew University
American Rabbinic Imprints, 1881-1939: The
Paratext as Social History
|
January
18
|
|
Chava
Turniansky/Hebrew University
The Bilingual Hebrew and Yiddish Work and
Its Intended Readers |
| January
25 |
|
Emile
Schrijver/University of Amsterdam
The Book Culture of Amsterdam’s Sephardim
in the 17th and 18th Centuries
|
February
1
|
|
Shlomo
Berger/University of Amsterdam
Yiddish Bibles in Context: Paratexts of the
Two 17th Century Editions
|
| February
8 |
|
Israel
Bartal/Hebrew University
The Haskalah ‘Counter Book’: Traditional
Forms and Subversive Messages
|
| February
15 |
|
Moshe
Rosman/Bar-Ilan University
Accessible Holiness: ‘Authors’ and
Audiences of Hasidic Books |
| February
22 |
|
Amnon
Raz-Krakotzkin/Ben-Gurion University
Print and Modernity: The Reshaping of Judaism
as ‘Religion’ and ‘Ethnicity’ |
| March
1 |
|
Iris
Parush/Ben-Gurion University
The Book: The ‘Sin of Writing’
and Haskalah Literature |
| March
15 |
|
Francesca
Bregoli/University of Pennsylvania
Printing Privileges and Jewish Acculturation:
The Printing Business in 18th Century Livorno
|
| March
22 |
|
Anthony
Grafton/Princeton University
Joanna Weinberg/University of Oxford;
Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies
How a Late Renaissance Scholar Read Jewish Texts:
Isaac Casaubon and his Judaic Library |
| March
29 |
|
Stefanie
Siegmund/University of Michigan
Sacred Language and the Bilingual Book: On the
Use of Hebrew and Italian in the Conversionary Treatises
of 16th Century Converts in Rome |
| April
5 |
|
Menahem
Schmelzer/Jewish Theological Seminary
One Codex, Many Texts: Who and What Brought
Them Together
|
| April
26 |
|
Vera
Moreen/Independent scholar
Iranian Jewish Books: A Manuscript Tradition
into the Nineteenth Century
|
