Author : Zeev Gries
Release : 2007
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Book in the Jewish World by : Zeev Gries
Download or read book The Book in the Jewish World written by Zeev Gries. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeev Gries's analysis of what books were being published and where shows the importance of the printed book in disseminating religious and secular ideas, creating a new class of Jewish intellectuals, and making knowledge of the world available to women. This unique perspective on Jewish intellectual history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the history of book-publishing throws light on many of the key Jewish cultural issues of the time.