The Book in the Jewish World, 1700-1900
Zeev Gries

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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.

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Zeev Gries is Professor in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva. He taught previously at the Hebrew University Jerusalem and Boston University, and has been a visiting scholar at the British Library, the University of Washington, Seattle, Harvard University, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He published numerous articles on Jewish ethical literature, hasidism and the history of the Jewish book. His other books are Conduct Literature (Regiman Vitae) and The Book in Early Hasidism.

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