Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Reused as Book-bindings in Italy

Mauro Perani, Ph.D. h.c. by the Hebrew University, was full professor of Hebrew at the Bologna University until 2019 and has served as director and editor of the Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo’s review Materia giudaica since 2000. In 2008 he founded the Corpus Epithaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae book series. He has published dozens of books and hundreds of articles on themes pertaining to Judaism. His publications can be found on the website https://unibo.academia.edu/MauroPerani.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Illustrations1 ForewordIsrael Ta-Shma, zal2 IntroductionMauro PeraniPart 1: General Description and History3 Manuscripta manent: “Books within Books”, an OverviewEmma Abate and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger4 “The Italian Genizah”: an Unexpected New Source of Medieval Hebrew ManuscriptsBenjamin Richler5 Death and Rebirth of Hebrew ManuscriptsMauro Perani6 Ashkenazic Responsa in the Italian GenizahSimcha Emanuel7 The “Italian Genizah”: Features and Report on Forty Years of ResearchMauro Perani8 The “European Genizah”: Between Hope and RealitySimcha EmanuelPart 2: Bible and Its Commentaries9 11th–12th-Century Biblical Manuscripts from the “Italian Genizah” and Their System of VocalizationChiara Pilocane10 The Importance of the “Italian Genizah” for the Study of Yosef Qara’s Biblical CommentariesAvraham GrossmanPart 3: Talmudic and Halakhic Texts11 The Talmudic Fragments of the “European Genizah”Yaaqov Sussmann12 An Important Manuscript of the Mishnah in the “Italian Genizah”Gad Ben-Ammi Sarfatti, zal13 The Most Ancient Fragment Found in the “Italian Genizah”: the Tosefta of Norcia (ca. 1000 BCE)Mauro Perani and Günter Stemberger14 Eight New Pages of an 11th-Century Talmud Yerushalmi Megillah and Ḥagigah from the State Archives of BolognaMauro Perani15 The Talmud Yerushalmi from Bologna, Probable Vorlage of Ms. Leiden: the New Fragments from Megillah and ḤagigahGünter Stemberger16 The She’iltot de-Rav Aḥai from the 10th–11th Century Found in RavennaPinchas Roth17 The Travel of the 10th–11th-Century She’iltot de-Rav Aḥai from Sicily-Maghreb to Ravenna via Ferrara and an Important Purchase NoteMauro Perani18 Juridical Books Bound in 16th-Century Bologna with Folios from a 12th-Century Manuscript of Halakhot Gedolot, Found in Bologna and in Leipzig University LibraryMauro Perani19 The Bologna Fragments of Halakhot Gedolot and Their Relation to the Italian Textual Tradition of the BookRoni ShwekaPart 4: Midrashic Texts20 The Pages of the Halakic Midrashim in the Nonantola and Modena ArchivesMenahem Kahana21 Pages from a New Manuscript of Sifre on Numbers and Deuteronomy in the Estense Library in ModenaMenahem KahanaPart 5: Kabbalah22 Fragments of Kabbalistic Works from the “Italian Genizah”: An Updated SurveySaverio CampaniniBibliography on the “Italian Genizah” and “European Genizah” 1915–2021Mauro Perani and Emma AbateIndex