No 26 (2023): Cromohs

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THE DESTRUCTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEBREW BOOKS Ed. by Miriam Benfatto and Elena Lolli 

Miriam Benfatto and Elena Lolli, The Destruction and Preservation of Hebrew Books. New Sources and Methodologies for Studying Catholic Censorship and Other Forms of Dismemberment and Rescue of Hebrew Texts in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Miriam Benfatto, Choosing the Lesser Evil: The Holy Office, the Jews and Voltaire. Censorship Notes on La difesa de’ libri santi e della religione giudaica (Venice, 1770)

Elena Lolli, Surviving Hebrew Accounts From the European Genizah. The Earliest Ledger of a Jewish Pawnshop in Italy

Kenneth Stow, Censorship: Books, the Halakhah, and Jewish Continuity, A Synoptic Overview

Mauro Perani, Causes, Methods, and Manifestations of the Destruction of Hebrew Manuscripts 

HISTORIANS AND THEIR CRAFT

Interview with Martin Mulsow Andrew McKenzie-McHarg 
Interview with Nile Green Nir Shafir 

ARTICLES 

Philippe Bornet, Between Myth and History: Collaborative Patterns in Recounting Kerala’s Past 

GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Ed. by Luc Wodzicki 

Luc Wodzicki and Sebastian Conrad, Introduction: Analytical Concepts for Transcultural Settings

Paulina Dominik, Just ‘a Strange Polish Muslim’? Seyfeddin Thadée Gasztowtt, the 1905 Global Moment and Biography in Global Intellectual History

Daniel Kolland, Global Performances of a Belated Concept: Revisiting Modernity through Concept History

Sébastien Tremblay, What Would the Queers Do? Analytical Concepts and the Potential of Queerness for Global History

Luc Wodzicki, The Transculturality of Virtue in the Early Modern Mediterranean. A Case Study in Florentine-Ottoman Relations

Leonie Wolters, A Flat Earth: M.N. Roy (1887–1954) and Assertions of Equivalence as Translations

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Cover image:  Jan Davidsz de Heem, Still Life with Books and a Violin. 1628. Courtesy of Mauritshuis, The Hague. https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/613-still-life-with-books-and-a-violin/ 

Table of Contents

The Destruction and Preservation of Hebrew Books. Ed. by Miriam Benfatto and Elena Lolli

Historians and Their Craft

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