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The Making of This Book
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What makes a book like this more than just a collection of excerpts, strung together interchangeably? What makes it a book? If I were to say it had been a matter of selection, who would venture to…

Contributor:

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1959

Subjects:

Writing, Profession, Theology, Kabbalah, Oral Torah

Categories:

History, Anthologies, Literature
Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue): On Genesis
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The Book of Me‘am lo‘ez is the explication of the entire Hebrew Bible in Ladino, explaining the way of life which a person must lead as the sacred law commanded, and also to know about all that…

Contributor:

Jacob Huli

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1730

Subjects:

Oral Torah, Jewish languages, Ladino, Writing

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Printed page of Hebrew text framed by arch with columns of garlands and a border of Hebrew text.