| Description |
1 online resource (270 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Bibliographical Conventions and Transliteration; Introduction; PART I: THE AWAKENING OF THE NASCENT INTELLIGENTSIA; 1. Expanding Horizons; 2. On Reading and Readers; 3. Elite Literature: Halakhic Works and Textual Commentaries; 4. Ethical Literature in Hebrew and Yiddish; 5. On Libraries Private and Public; 6. Kabbalistic Literature and its Role in Hasidism; 7. Literature for Women and Children Only, or for Everyone?; PART II: THE BOOK: GUARDIAN OF THE SACRED OR HERALD OF SECULARIZATION?; 8. The New Hebrew Literature: Continuity or Revolution? |
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9. Jewish Books and their Authors in the Nineteenth Century10. Book Reviews in the Hebrew Press; 11. The Bibliographer and Librarian as an Agent of Culture: The Contribution of Abraham Ya'ari to the Study of Jewish Publishing in Eastern Europe; Afterword: The Revolution in the World of Hebrew Books at the Start of the Twentieth Century; Appendix: The Young Abraham Ya'ari; Bibliography; Index of Books and Periodicals; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Places; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of People; A; B |
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CD; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Subjects; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
Explores how books disseminated religious and secular ideas, created a new class of Jewish intellectuals, and made knowledge of the world available to women |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hebrew imprints -- History
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Books -- History -- 18th century.
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Books -- History -- 19th century
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Books
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Hebrew imprints
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Green, Jeffrey M
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| ISBN |
9781909821064 |
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1909821063 |
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