Winter Semester 2019/2020
Jewish Publishing Cultures
Buchgeschichte als Wissensgeschichte
Time: Tuesday, 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (2 hours per week)
Start: 29 October 2019
Location: Dubnow Institute, Goldschmidtstr. 28
Seminar Language: German
Literature: Zeev Gries, The Book in the Jewish World, 1700–1900, Oxford/Portland 2007; Karen Auerbach, »Verlagswesen,« in: Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, ed. by Dan Diner, 2016, <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-2845_ejgk_COM_0970>; Kenneth B. Moss, »Printing and Publishing after 1800«, in: YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe <http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Printing_and_Publishing/Printing_and_Publishing_after_1800>. Seminar texts will be provided in a reader.
Participation is limited to 25 people.
Open to mature age students: no
Participation is conditional on giving a short presentation and willingness to read texts in the English language.
