"Habent sua fata fragmenta": Festschrift in Honour of Mauro Perani Offered by Friends and Colleagues, European Genizah Texts and Studies, Volume 7(76 Studies in Jewish History and Culture)

This volume, dedicated to celebrating Professor Mauro Perani’s career, encompasses a collection of original and groundbreaking essays on Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts, from late antiquity onwards, by international scholars and specialists of Hebrew palaeography, philology and Jewish history. The first section deals with research on documents, letters and literary sources shading new light on forgotten aspects of Medieval and Early Modern Jewish history. The second part introduces to recent discoveries and analysis of Hebrew fragments found reused as bindings and covers of other books in European libraries and archives.

About the Author :
Emma Abate is Associate Professor at Bologna University. She is a specialist of Hebrew manuscripts; her books and articles are mainly dedicated to the study and edition of the Jewish magical and kabbalistic manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. She is the PI of the team project BiNaH: Bibliothèque nationale "Hebraica", Hebrew Manuscripts in Paris based at Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (CNRS, Paris) and the scientific coordinator of the team project Books within Books: Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries. Saverio Campanini is professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna. His research focuses mainly on Medieval Jewish mysticism and its reception in the Latin West in the Renaissance. Among his publications: Four Short Kabbalistic Treatises (2019); Francesco Zorzi, L’armonia del mondo (ed. by S. Campanini, 2010); (with S. Jurgan and G. Busi), The Gate of Heaven. Flavius Mithridates’ Latin Translation, the Hebrew Text, and an English Version (2012); The Book of Bahir. The Hebrew Text, Flavius Mithridates’ Latin Translation and an English Version (2005). Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, FBA (PhD Cantab. 1995) is Professor of Hebrew Manuscript Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL, Paris, President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. She has researched and published extensively on Hebrew palaeography, diplomatics, and linguistic tradition. Her recent publications include Learning Hebrew in Medieval England. Christian Scholars and the Longleat House Grammar (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, 2023). Giuseppe Veltri is professor of Jewish philosophy and religion at the University of Hamburg. He is the editor-in-chief of several series published by Brill, De Gruyter, and Paideia. He is director of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies in Hamburg since 2015. His fields of research are Jewish cultural history, Jewish philosophy in the Renaissance and early modern period, magic, and biblical tradition and translations. Among his publications are Il Rinascimento nel pensiero ebraico (2020).