La République des Lettres: Rabbins, Ecrivains et Médecins Juifs en Italie au XVIIIe Siècle
Leiden: Brill, 2007. First edition. Thick octavo. xiv, 822pp. Plus 4 plates of maps. Text in French with some Hebrew. Index and 96 page bibliography. Blue buckram lettered in white. Illustrated with some text portraits. A fine, as new copy.
This volume is a reference book on more than a thousand Jewish writers—rabbis, physicians and laymen—active in 18th-century Italy. Each author has a biographical notice, followed by a list of his printed works and manuscripts, their location in the major international judaica collections and a bibliography of the relevant secondary sources. The book is illustrated with more than forty portraits of authors and includes rich analytical and thematic indexes. This work is intended to be a fundamental instrument for scholars interested in the Jewish Italian Enlightenment. It allows us to address, from a sociological and quantitative perspective, questions such as: what did Italian Jews write about?, for whom?, where?, in which language? (Publisher)
Contents: Matière Préliminaire /; A. Salah --; 1. Préface /; A. Salah --; 2. Dictionnaire Bio-Bibliographique des Auteurs et Médecins Juifs en Italie au XVIIIe Siècle /; A. Salah --; 3. Bibliographie /; A. Salah --; 4. Appendices /; A. Salah --; 5. Index /; A. Salah. (OCLC)
Volume 16 of the Brill series, "Studies in Jewish History and Culture" (SJHC). Item #52195
ISBN: 9789004156425
Price: $250.00