© British Library, MS Add. 14762
The Jewish Book 1400–1600: From Production to Reception
The Jewish Book 1400–1600: From Production to Reception

Workshop Programme

Venue: Bezirksregierung Münster, Domplatz 1–3, 48143 Münster, Saal 1

  • Monday, June 24

    Monday, June 24
    10:00 – 10:45 Opening and Greetings 
    Katrin Kogman-Appel and Eric Achermann
    10:45 – 13:00 Session 1
    From Manuscript to Print
    Evelyn M. Cohen

    Joel ben Simeon in Transition

    (Delivered in absentia by Kathryn Hellerstein)
    Rodica Herlo-Lukowski Changes in Bookmaking: Joel ben Simeon's Manuscripts in Transition between Tailor-Made and Large–Scale Production
    Malachi Beit-Arié The Material Affinity Between Early Hebrew Printing and Late Medieval Scribal Traditions: Continuity or Rupture
    13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 – 15:30 Session 2
    From Manuscript to Print
    Avriel Bar Levav The Emergence of the Printing Self: Colophons and Paratexts from Manuscript to Print
    Nurit Pasternak The Post-Production Paratext of a 13th-Century Bible: an Insight into  the Story Behind the Codex and Its Users
    15:30 – 16:00 Break
    16:00 – 17:30 Session 3
    From Manuscript to Print
    Adam Shear Behinat Olam from Scribes and Printers to Readers and Collectors
    Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg Jewish Law from Manuscript to Print: Ordering Texts and Understanding Law
    Hans van Nes How Bomberg Became a Chasid ha-umot
    18:00

    Dinner

  • Tuesday, June 25

    Tuesday, June 25
    9:00 – 10:30 Session 4
    Halakhic Considerations
    Annett Martini Lishmah Qedushat Sefer Torah or the Impossibility for Printing a Kosher Torah Scroll from Rabbinic Perspectives
    Pavel Sladek From manuscript to printed book: Sixteenth-century Jewish editors of medieval texts
    10:30 –  11:00 Break
    11:00 – 12:30 Session 5
    Halakhic Considerations
    Joshua Teplitsky Books and Butchers: Manuals for Kosher Food Preparation in Early Modern Europe
    Elchanan Reiner Arba’a Turim, 1540: A Tale of Two Editions of the Same Book in the Same Year and in Two Cities
    12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 – 16:15 Session 6
    Early Print in Sephardi Culture
    Javier Castaño Early Hebrew Printers in Castile-Aragon in Context: Individuals, Networks, and Books
    Joseph R. Hacker Editing and Publishing Hebrew Books in Sixteenth Century Ottoman Empire
    Débora Matos Portuguese Hebrew Incunabula: A History of Entanglements
    16:15 – 16:30 Break
    16:30 – 18:00 Session 7
    Hayyim Shahor & Co.
    Sarit Shalev-Eyni The 1514 "Grace after Meals and Sabbath Hymns" and the Beginning of Woodcut Illustrations In Prague
    Lucia Raspe Hayyim Shahor and Jewish Life in Sixteenth-Century Ashkenaz
    18:00 Dinner

  • Wednesday, June 26

    Wednesday, June 26
    9:00 – 10:30

    Session 8
    Jewish Books in Christian Collections
    Saverio Campanini "Ben Hacane Liber qui dicitur Pelia". Egidio da Viterbo's Kabbalistic Excerpts
    Javier Del Barco Hebrew Manuscripts on Grammar and Exegesis Used and Amended by Alfonso de Zamora (1476–1544)
    10:30 – 10:45 Break
    10:45 – 13:00 Session 9
    Jewish Books in Christian Collections
    Theodor Dunkelgrün

    A Hebrew Incunable and its Christian Scribe

    (Delivered in absentia by Joshua Teplitzky)
    Ilona Steimann Bindings, Fragments, and Provenance Research: Hebraica of the Viennese Collegium Ducale
    Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig Johannes Pfefferkorn and Antonius Margaritha: Iconographic Convention Created, Reproduced, Reworked and Reprinted
    13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 – 15:00 Joshua Teplitsky and Adam Shear Presentation of “Footprints”
    15:00 – 15:15 Break
    15:15 – 17:30

    Session 10
    The Talmud
    David Stern Print and the Burning of the Talmud
    Yakov Z. Mayer The 1523 Venice Edition of the Palestinian Talmud and its Printer’s Copy
    Judith Olszowy- Schlanger

    An autopsy of the Talmud of Arras (ms. 889): a sad case of theft

    (Delivered in absentia by Katrin Kogman-Appel)
    18:00 Dinner

  • Thursday, June 27

    Thursday, June 27
    9:00 – 10:30

    Session 11
    Jewish Books in Christian Collections
    Michela Andreatta Ghostly Library: For a Reconstruction of the Hebrew Books of Sant’Antonio di Castello in Venice
    Maximilian De Molière Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter on the History of Jewish Books. The Evidence from his Christian Hebraist Library
    10:30 – 11:00 Break
    11:00 – 12:30

    Session 12
    Manuscript and Print
    Emile  Schrijver New Thoughts on the Co-Existence of Jewish Printed Books and Manuscripts: 1600 and Beyond
    Sharon Liberman Mintz Calimani and Griselini: The extraordinary collaboration of a Venetian rabbi and a Christian artist in the production of illustrated Hebrew manuscripts, printed books and broadsides
    12:30 Lunch