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Medieval Vernacular Literature: Hebrew

Library and Internet resources about medieval literature in European vernacular languages.

Overview

Bibliographies
Critical editions
Manuscript Databases
Muslim and Jewish
Secondary Sources

Manuscript Databases

Jewish National and University Library
Jewish National and University Library- Digitized Book Repository
Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts
The Royal Library of Denmark- Judaica Collection

Bibliographies

Biblioteca española-portugueza-judaica : dictionnaire bibliographique des auteurs juifs, de leurs ouvrages espagnols et portugais et des oeuvres sur et contre les Juifs et le judaïsme, avec un aper̨cu sur la littérature des Juifs espagnols et une coll by M. Kayserling
Call Number: PQ6065 .K39 1968
Guides to the perplexed in the wilderness of Hebraica : from historical to contemporary bibliographies and catalogs of Hebraica by Menahem Schmelzer
Call Number: Z7070 .S36 1996
Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican library : catalogue by Benjamin Richler (editor)
Call Number: Z810.B43 S78 v.438

Studi e testi (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana) ; 438.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Bibliotheca Iiddica khronologye (Website) by BIBLIOTHECA AUGUSTANA
Includes primary and secondary material for authors from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries.

Muslim and Jewish

Huellas del Islam en la Literatura Espanola by Luce L. Baralt
Call Number: PQ6042.A4 L66 1985
Models and contacts : Arabic literature and its impact on medieval Jewish culture by Rina Drory
Call Number: PJ7530 .D76 2000
The Literature of Al-Andalus by Mariá Rosa Menocal (Editor); Raymond P. Scheindlin (Editor); Michael Sells (Editor)
Located in Madrid Gen. Collect.
Power in the Portrayal - Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- And Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain by Ross Brann
Call Number: DP52 .B73 2002
Looking Back at Al-Andalus: the poetics of loss and nostalgia in medieval Arabic and Hebrew literature by Alexander E. Elinson
Schrift - Macht - Heiligkeitin den Literaturen des jüdisch-christlich-muslimischen Mittelalters by Karl Bertau
Call Number: PN674 .B47 2005

Critical Editions

"The Copenhagen Maimonides," 1347
Det Kongelige Bibliotek. Cod. Heb. 37 Fol. 114a

Coat of Many Cultures: the story of Joseph in Spanish literature, 1200-1492 by Michael McGaha
Call Number: PQ6174.9.J6 C3 1997

ISBN: 0827605706
The Cross and the Scroll: 1,000 years of Jewish-Hispanic literature by Ilan Stavans (Editor)
Call Number: PQ6056 .S37 2003
Rothschild Miscellany
Call Number: ND3399 .R68 1989

Full-color, full-size facsimile reproduction of the manuscript Israel Museum 180/51. The manuscript comprises some fifty religious and secular works bound together, including liturgical works, Bible texts, Haggadah texts, and treatises on philosophy.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL MSS
El tiempo y la muerte : las elegías de Mosěh Ibn 'Ezra' by Ángeles Navarro Peíro (Editor)
Call Number: PJ5050.I2 A618 1994
Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher. by Moritz Steinschneider
Call Number: Z7070 .S83 1956
An anthology of medieval Hebrew literature. by Abraham Millgram
Call Number: PJ5059.E3 M5 1962

Secondary Sources

Antología sefaradí, 1492-1700 : respuesta literaria de los hebreos españoles a la expulsión de 1492 by María del Carmen Artigas (Editor)
Located in Madrid Gen. Collect.
A History of Jewish Literature by Israel Zinberg; Bernard Martin
Call Number: PJ5008 .Z5313
La sociedad medieval a través de la literatura hispanojudía
Call Number: DS135.S7 C87 1996
Beautiful Death - Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France by Susan L. Einbinder
Call Number: PJ5023 .E46 2002
Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World by Nicholas R. M. De Lange (Editor)
Call Number: PJ5016 .H43 2001
Unveiling Eve: reading gender in medieval Hebrew literature by Tova Rosen
Call Number: PJ5016 .R67 2003
Du scribe au livre : les manuscrits hébreux au Moyen Age by Colette Sirat
Call Number: Z115.4 .S56314 2002

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref