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Book Review: Cyrus The Great: Life And Lore Ed. By M. Rahim Shayegan, David B. Levy Jul 2020

Book Review: Cyrus The Great: Life And Lore Ed. By M. Rahim Shayegan, David B. Levy

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Book Review: Monsters And Monstrosity In Jewish History: From The Middle Ages To Modernity Edited By Iris Idelson-Shein And Christian Wiese, David B. Levy Jan 2020

Book Review: Monsters And Monstrosity In Jewish History: From The Middle Ages To Modernity Edited By Iris Idelson-Shein And Christian Wiese, David B. Levy

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  • David B. Levy

Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History: From the Middle Ages to ModernityEdited by Iris Idelson-Shein and Christian Wiese. Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xiv + 269 pp.

The past two decades have witnessed a surge of interest in monsters and the monstrous, but none from the perspective of Jewish studies except for some of the work of David Ruderman, who in a number of pioneering articles in the 1970s and 1980s analyzed early modern Jewish representations of conjoined twins, unicorns, and child …


Bibliography: Prepared For “The Commentary Of Rashi On The Humash: The First Dated Hebrew Edition Published In Reggio Di Calabria In 1475 By Rabbi Abraham Ben Garton", David B. Levy Jan 2020

Bibliography: Prepared For “The Commentary Of Rashi On The Humash: The First Dated Hebrew Edition Published In Reggio Di Calabria In 1475 By Rabbi Abraham Ben Garton", David B. Levy

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Bibliography prepared for a permanent exhibit at Museo Castello Aragonese, Piazza Castello - 89125 Reggio Di Calabria (RC) Italy

Citation for exhibit: Penchassi Debora (Scrittrice e ricercatrice storia Ebraica Italiana). Esibizione permanente della copia anastatica “Il Commentario di Rashi al Pentateuco” Il primo libro ebraico datato, stampato in Reggio di Calabria in 1475. Lo stampatore Abraham ben Garton, il commentatore Rabbi Shlomo YItzhaki, De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo ebraista e bibliografo.