A Sixteenth-Century rabbi as a Published Author: The Early Editions of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe's Levushim

Abstrakt

The chapter analyzes the paratexts of the early editions of the works by Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe (d. 1612), printed between 1590 and 1620. It reconstructs the mechanisms of early modern Hebrew publishing.

Klíčová slova

• Jewish history
• Early modern period
• Mordecai Jaffe
• Jewish book culture