Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Marathi Jewish printing in India : Valmadonna Trust Library
This collection contains the Hebrew imprints from India in the Valmadonna Library in London. They are unequalled both in their number and in their quality. Among them are numerous unrecorded titles and unica - unique surviving copies - of Hebrew-character texts, as well as other Jewish texts in Mara...
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| OCLC: | 255960709 |
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| Language: | Hebrew Aramaic Marathi Judeo-Arabic English Malayalam |
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Leiden :
IDC,
2006.
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| Format: | Microform Note that CRL will digitize material from the collection when copyright allows. |
| Summary: | This collection contains the Hebrew imprints from India in the Valmadonna Library in London. They are unequalled both in their number and in their quality. Among them are numerous unrecorded titles and unica - unique surviving copies - of Hebrew-character texts, as well as other Jewish texts in Marathi and Malayalam, printed in India in the principal centres of Jewish settlement and publishing. Their content ranges from rare oriental liturgies, poetry, biblical, medieval and kabbalistic texts in Hebrew or Aramaic, to the Passover Haggadah, ritual law, dictionaries, story-books and other original compositions, many in Judeo-Arabic or Marathi and accompanied by Judeo-Arabic or Marathi translation. Indian Jewish illustration and graphic art are also represented here in flawless lithographs. The collection includes the most complete surviving text of one of the great curiosities of Indian Jewish literature, an illustrated edition of the classic Hindustani drama Inder Sabha, printed in Calcutta in 1880, in Urdu transcribed in oriental Hebrew script. The Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Marathi Jewish books from India comprise a little-known dimension of the huge linguistic and literary diversity of printing and lithography in Asia and the Orient. They are also an invaluable resource for the history of Hebrew liturgy, Judeo-Arabic literature and journalism, Jewish art and folklore, and the cultures of the distinct Jewish communities of India. These bibliographic treasures, in all of their linguistic and graphic variety, are reproduced here together for the first time. |
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| Item Description: | Editor: Brad Sabin Hill. |
| Physical Description: | 1376 microfiches (657 titles) + catalogue. |