Picturing Yiddish : Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One: An Illustrated Manuscript of Jewish Customs -- Chapter One: Introduction to the Paris Book of Customs -- Chapter Two: The Beginnings of a new Pictorial Tradition -- Chapter Three: Representing Jewish Ritual and Identity in the Paris Book of Customs and Its Christian Counterparts -- Chapter Four: Representing Diversity within the Community: The Absence of Rabbis and the Presence of Women -- Part II: The Printed Books of Customs -- Chapter Five: Introduction to the Printed Books of Customs -- Chapter Six: Marriage and Memory: Images of Marriage Rituals in Yiddish Books of Customs -- Chapter Seven: Remembering Amalek and Nebuchadnezzar: Biblical Warfare and Symbolic Violence in Images in the Yiddish Books of Customs -- Part III: The Secular Yiddish Books, Paris Un Viene and the Kuh-Bukh -- Chapter Eight: Cultural Exchange and Jewish Identity in Images in Secular Illustrated Yiddish Books -- Chapter Nine: Picturing Romantic Passion, Illicit Sexuality, and Women's Agency in Secular Yiddish Books -- Conclusions -- Illustrations -- Appendix: Catalogue of Images -- Works Cited -- Index -- Brill's Series in Jewish Studies.

This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books from sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs, and four printed volumes - two books of customs, a chivalric romance, and a book of fables.

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