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Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Judeo-Persian—New York (State)—New York—Catalogs [Browse]
• Judeo-Persian literature—Manuscripts—Catalogs [Browse]
• Jewish Theological Seminary of America Library—Catalogs [Browse]

Author

• Moreen, Vera Basch [Browse]

Series

• Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval ; Volume 63. [More in this series]
• Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval, 0169-815X ; Volume 63

Summary note

Winner of the 2015 Bibliography Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries! The AJL Judaica Bibliography Award was established to encourage the publication of outstanding Judaica bibliographies. The intellectual legacy of the ancient community of Iranian Jews rests in several large but neglected Judeo-Persian manuscript collections. The largest in the West, and the third largest collection in the world (198 manuscripts), belongs to the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York. Primarily a work of reference, this Catalog informs scholars in the fields of Judaica and Iranica about the range of subjects (history, poetry, medicine, philology, et cetera) that engaged Iranian Jews between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. It reflects the intellectual parameters of Iranian Jewry by describing the extent to which they were acquainted with classical Jewish texts while they were deeply enmeshed in the literary and artistic sensibilities of their Iranian environment.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Accounts
• Dīwān
• Epics
• Folklore and Magic
• History
• Liturgy
• Medicine
• Midrash
• Miscellany
• Philology
• Philosophy
• Religious Texts
• Tales
• Bibliography
• List of Manuscripts by Shelf Marks and General Content
• Indexes.

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ISBN

90-04-28130-4

OCLC

894123934

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004281301

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