Joseph R. Hacker is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Adam Shear is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Introduction: Book History and the Hebrew Book in Italy
—Adam Shear and Joseph R. Hacker
Chapter 1. Can Colophons Be Trusted? Insights from Decorated Hebrew Manuscripts Produced for Women in Renaissance Italy
—Evelyn M. Cohen
Chapter 2. Marchion in Hebrew Manuscripts: State Censorship in Florence, 1472
—Nurit Pasternak
Chapter 3. Daniel van Bombergen, a Bookman of Two Worlds
—Bruce Nielsen
Chapter 4. The Rabbinic Bible in Its Sixteenth-Century Context
—David Stern
Chapter 5. Sixteenth-Century Jewish Internal Censorship of Hebrew Books
—Joseph R. Hacker
Chapter 6. Robert Bellarmine Reads Rashi: Rabbinic Bible Commentaries and the Burning of the Talmud
—Piet van Boxel
Chapter 7. Dangerous Readings in Early Modern Modena: Negotiating Jewish Culture in an Italian Key
—Federica Francesconi
Chapter 8. The Printing of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Prayer Books Printed for the Shomrim la-Boker Confraternities
—Michela Andreatta
Chapter 9. Hebrew Printing in Eighteenth-Century Livorno: From Government Control to a Free Market
—Francesca Bregoli
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments

Joseph R. Hacker is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Adam Shear is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.