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Catalog of Judeo-Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Contributor(s): Moreen, Vera Basch (Author)
ISBN: 9004281290     ISBN-13: 9789004281295
Publisher: Brill
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Judaism - Rituals & Practice
- Reference | Bibliographies & Indexes
Dewey: 016
LCCN: 2014025716
Series: Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéval
Physical Information: 504 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
 
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Winner of the 2015 Bibliography Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries The AJL Judaica Bibliography Award was established to encourage the publication of outstanding Judaica bibliographies.

The intellectual legacy of the ancient community of Iranian Jews rests in several large but neglected Judeo-Persian manuscript collections. The largest in the West, and the third largest collection in the world (198 manuscripts), belongs to the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York. Primarily a work of reference, this Catalog informs scholars in the fields of Judaica and Iranica about the range of subjects (history, poetry, medicine, philology, etc.) that engaged Iranian Jews between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. It reflects the intellectual parameters of Iranian Jewry by describing the extent to which they were acquainted with classical Jewish texts while they were deeply enmeshed in the literary and artistic sensibilities of their Iranian environment.