| Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries Contributor(s): Abrams, Rebecca (Editor), Merchan-Hamann, Cesar (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1851245022 ISBN-13: 9781851245024 Publisher: Bodleian Library OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Permanent - Religion | Judaism - General |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 9.8" W x 10.5" (3.90 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Representing four centuries of collecting and a thousand years of Jewish history, this book brings together Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the extraordinary collections include a fragment of Maimonides' autograph draft of the Mishneh Torah, the earliest dated fragment of the Talmud, exquisitely illuminated manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, stunning festival prayer books, and one of the oldest surviving Jewish seals in England. Lavishly illustrated essays by experts in the field bring these outstanding works to life, exploring the personalities and diverse motivations of their original collectors. Saved for posterity by religious scholarship, intellectual rivalry, and political ambition, these extraordinary collections also detail the consumption and circulation of knowledge across the centuries, forming a social and cultural history of objects moved across borders from person to person. Together, they offer a fascinating journey through Jewish intellectual and social history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Abrams, Rebecca: - Rebecca Abrams is Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford and author of The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years in 22 Objects.Merchan-Hamann, Cesar: - César Merchán-Hamann is the Hebrew and Judaica curator in the Bodleian Library and director of the Leopold Muller Memorial Library at the University of Oxford. |