Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Reused as Book-Bindings in Italy

European Genizah Texts and Studies, Volume 6
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-47098-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 69, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 851 g

Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and Culture

This richly illustrated volume offers the most comprehensive and updated survey on about sixteen thousand Hebrew manuscript fragments reused as book-bindings and preserved in hundreds of libraries and archives in Italy. Contributions by the leading scholars in the field elucidate specific collections and genres no less than individual fragments, bringing to new life a forgotten library of medieval Jewish books, as almost 160 Talmudic codices, which include the Mishna, Tosefta, Palestinian Talmud and, for the most part, the Babylonian one, and several hitherto unknown texts. The contribution of these fragments to the ongoing research on the “European Genizah”, as the Books within Books Project, and to Jewish Studies in general cannot be overestimated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perani, Mauro

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

1 Foreword

Israel Ta-Shma, zal

2 Introduction

Mauro Perani

Part 1: General Description and History

3 Manuscripta manent: “Books within Books”, an Overview

Emma Abate and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

4 “The Italian Genizah”: an Unexpected New Source of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts

Benjamin Richler

5 Death and Rebirth of Hebrew Manuscripts

Mauro Perani

6 Ashkenazic Responsa in the Italian Genizah

Simcha Emanuel

7 The “Italian Genizah”: Features and Report on Forty Years of Research

Mauro Perani

8 The “European Genizah”: Between Hope and Reality

Simcha Emanuel

Part 2: Bible and Its Commentaries

9 11th–12th-Century Biblical Manuscripts from the “Italian Genizah” and Their System of Vocalization

Chiara Pilocane

10 The Importance of the “Italian Genizah” for the Study of Yosef Qara’s Biblical Commentaries

Avraham Grossman

Part 3: Talmudic and Halakhic Texts

11 The Talmudic Fragments of the “European Genizah”

Yaaqov Sussmann

12 An Important Manuscript of the Mishnah in the “Italian Genizah”

Gad Ben-Ammi Sarfatti, zal

13 The Most Ancient Fragment Found in the “Italian Genizah”: the Tosefta of Norcia (ca. 1000 BCE)

Mauro Perani and Günter Stemberger

14 Eight New Pages of an 11th-Century Talmud Yerushalmi Megillah and Hagigah from the State Archives of Bologna

Mauro Perani

15 The Talmud Yerushalmi from Bologna, Probable Vorlage of Ms. Leiden: the New Fragments from Megillah and Hagigah

Günter Stemberger

16 The She’iltot de-Rav Ahai from the 10th–11th Century Found in Ravenna

Pinchas Roth

17 The Travel of the 10th–11th-Century She’iltot de-Rav Ahai from Sicily-Maghreb to Ravenna via Ferrara and an Important Purchase Note

Mauro Perani

18 Juridical Books Bound in 16th-Century Bologna with Folios from a 12th-Century Manuscript of Halakhot Gedolot, Found in Bologna and in Leipzig University Library

Mauro Perani

19 The Bologna Fragments of Halakhot Gedolot and Their Relation to the Italian Textual Tradition of the Book

Roni Shweka

Part 4: Midrashic Texts

20 The Pages of the Halakic Midrashim in the Nonantola and Modena Archives

Menahem Kahana

21 Pages from a New Manuscript of Sifre on Numbers and Deuteronomy in the Estense Library in Modena

Menahem Kahana

Part 5: Kabbalah

22 Fragments of Kabbalistic Works from the “Italian Genizah”: An Updated Survey

Saverio Campanini

Bibliography on the “Italian Genizah” and “European Genizah” 1915–2021

Mauro Perani and Emma Abate

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mauro Perani, Ph.D. h.c. by the Hebrew University, was full professor of Hebrew at the Bologna University until 2019 and has served as director and editor of the Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo’s review Materia giudaica since 2000. In 2008 he founded the Corpus Epithaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae book series. He has published dozens of books and hundreds of articles on themes pertaining to Judaism. His publications can be found on the website https://unibo.academia.edu/MauroPerani.