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      Premodern Jewish Books, Their Makers and Readers in an Era of Media Change

      This volume brings together studies about books as artefacts within transitional zones. The history of the book from the handwritten to the printed medium is understood as a process marked…

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      Beloved David-Advisor, Man of Understanding, and Writer

      This volume brings together the latest scholarship on Jewish literary products and the ways in which they can be interpreted from three different perspectives. In part 1, contributors consider texts…

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      Beloved David-Advisor, Man of Understanding, and Writer

      This volume brings together the latest scholarship on Jewish literary products and the ways in which they can be interpreted from three different perspectives. In part 1, contributors consider texts…

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      Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain

      Katrin Kogman-Appel

      This book discusses the decoration types of Sephardic illuminated Bibles in their broader historical, and social context in an era of cultural transition in Iberia and culture struggle within Spanish…

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      A Mahzor from Worms: Art and Religion in a Medieval Jewish Community

      Katrin Kogman-Appel

      In the Leipzig Mahzor, one of the most lavish Hebrew illuminated manuscripts of all time, Kogman-Appel has discovered a fascinating portal into the life of the fourteenth century Jewish community…

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      Catalan Maps and Jewish Books: The Intellectual Profile of Elisha Ben Abraham Cresques (1325-1387)

      Katrin Kogman-Appel

      This book presents a small chapter in the intellectual history of the Jews of Majorca. Its key figure is Elisha ben Abraham Bevenisti Cresques (1325-1387) a cartographer in the service…

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      Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday

      Katrin Kogman-Appel (birth date: 8/10/58)

      Emerging in Spain after 1250, Jewish narrative figurative painting became a central feature in a group of illuminated Passover Haggadot in the early decades of the fourteenth century. This book…

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      Between Judaism and Christianity: Art Historical Essays in Honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel-Neher

      The essays collected in this volume present a multi-faceted range of scholarship from late antique synagogues, Jewish funerary art, early Christian and Byzantine mosaics, to Byzantine and Jewish book art…

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      Perception and Awareness

      What did the world look like for Jews living in medieval Europe? How did they perceive and make use of the elements of their daily life, from items on the…

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      The Washington Haggadah

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      After the Bible, the Passover haggadah is the most widely read classic Jewish text. Few editions are as exquisite as the Washington Haggadah in the Library of Congress. A stunning…

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      Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture

      The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with travel literature and with mapping as conceptual and artistic…

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      The Kennicott Bible

      A beautifully illustrated book on the Kennicott Bible, a remarkable example of Medieval Jewish book art.

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