Sefer Hasidim"" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

by IvanG.Marcus (Author), Ivan G. Marcus (Author), Ivan G. Marcus (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2018

  $77.80

  In Sefer Hasidim and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe, Ivan G. Marcus proposes a new paradigm for understanding how Sefer Hasidim, or Book of the Pietists, was composed and how it extended an earlier Byzantine rabbinic tradition of authorship into medieval European Jewish culture.