The Editor's Place: Samuel Boehm and the Transfer of Italian Print Culture to Krakow
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Editor's Place: Samuel Boehm and the Transfer of Italian Print Culture to Krakow
Original language description
The editor and publisher Samuel Boehm worked for Hebrew presses in Northern Italy before moving to Krakow, where, in 1569, he joined Isaac Prostitz's newly established press and remained visibly active until 1586. This article analyses in detail the transfer of Italian print culture to East-Central Europe, in which Boehm was highly instrumental. After clarifying a few biographical details, we investigate Boehm's involvement in the intricately woven networks of publishing in Cremona, Padua and Venice and analyse how he claims visibility for his prominent role, in particular in publishing parts of Joseph Karo's Bet Yosef. The article then explores the contexts of Boehm's move to Krakow in a period of Venetian-Ottoman conflict and anti-Jewish hostility that led to a crisis for Venetian Hebrew printing, and it situates the establishment of Prostitz's press in the wider contexts of Hebrew printing in East-Central Europe. Following Boehm's work in Krakow, in particular as an editor of Moses Isserles, the article traces the transfer of central elements of Italian print culture to Krakow: material (types and ornaments), the discourse on editing in the paratexts, editorial expertise concerning halakhah, the organisation of the print shop with fluctuating and overlapping roles for various actors, and the commitment to the transregional distribution of varied genres of Jewish knowledge. Finally, turning to Boehm's editing of Abraham Zacut, we highlight Boehm's own complex vision of the role of transregional movement and local stability for Jewish cultural productivity.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Jewish Quarterly Review [online]
ISSN
1553-0604
e-ISSN
0021-6682
Volume of the periodical
122
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
52
Pages from-to
468-519
UT code for WoS article
000843630200005
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