UID:
almafu_9959239581302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (441 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-91529-3
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9786610915293
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90-474-0558-7
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1-4294-2910-0
Serie:
Brill's series in Jewish studies, v. 36
Inhalt:
This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books from sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs, and four printed volumes - two books of customs, a chivalric romance, and a book of fables.
Anmerkung:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One: An Illustrated Manuscript of Jewish Customs -- Chapter One: Introduction to the Paris Book of Customs -- Chapter Two: The Beginnings of a new Pictorial Tradition -- Chapter Three: Representing Jewish Ritual and Identity in the Paris Book of Customs and Its Christian Counterparts -- Chapter Four: Representing Diversity within the Community: The Absence of Rabbis and the Presence of Women -- Part II: The Printed Books of Customs -- Chapter Five: Introduction to the Printed Books of Customs -- Chapter Six: Marriage and Memory: Images of Marriage Rituals in Yiddish Books of Customs -- Chapter Seven: Remembering Amalek and Nebuchadnezzar: Biblical Warfare and Symbolic Violence in Images in the Yiddish Books of Customs -- Part III: The Secular Yiddish Books, Paris Un Viene and the Kuh-Bukh -- Chapter Eight: Cultural Exchange and Jewish Identity in Images in Secular Illustrated Yiddish Books -- Chapter Nine: Picturing Romantic Passion, Illicit Sexuality, and Women's Agency in Secular Yiddish Books -- Conclusions -- Illustrations -- Appendix: Catalogue of Images -- Works Cited -- Index -- Brill's Series in Jewish Studies.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 90-04-13905-2
Sprache:
Englisch
