Anania coen (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Octavo (185mm); 40, [2], 36 pages. Bound in contemporary green pastepaper wraps, worn and perished at spine (reinforced with strong Japanese paper on spine and edgers). Pages untrimmed. Text block lightly foxed in places, but generally clean and unblemished. References: CLIO III, 1721; cf Brooks, #489-90; not in Oldfather. After decades of ghetto confinement and yellow-hat stigmatization, the Jews of Reggio in Emilia enjoyed a period of liberalism in Napoleon's Cisalpine Republic, established in 1797. In this environment, Rabbi Anania Coen, melamed and principal of Reggio's Hebrew school, became interested in publishing secular literature. In association with Giuseppe Davolio, he issued Italian translations of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, of some of Walter Scott's novels, and, here, the Enchiridion of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus together with the arcane dialogue on the meaning of art by a Cebes, a contemporary of Plato and student of Socrates. (The Italian translation of Epictetus by Pagnini had been published by Bodoni in 1793.) How odd that a distinguished rabbi, who would proceed to establish his own Hebrew press in Reggio and later in Florence, should promote the unorthodox and questioning philosophies of Epictetus and of Socratics! Coen's own work in Hebrew is equally fascinating, centered on rhetoric, on the development of a modern spoken Hebrew, and on Hebrew-Italian lexicography. Coen left Reggio in 1825 to become the chief rabbi of Florence. …

Zustand: Good. First edition. 22 cm; 16, 235 pages. Part 1 only. Text in Italian and Hebrew. Bound in publisher's original plain blue paper wraps; pages untrimmed. A fine, unsophisticated specimen. Reference: Busi, #12 Part I only of a three-part work Hebrew and Italian dictionary, including the introduction and the entries of the first half of the Hebrew alphabet (aleph through lamed). Far more than a word list, each entry is an exploration into the implications of the vocabulary. From modest origins, Anania Coen emerged as a principle Jewish intellectual, rabbi, publisher, printer, and author, who established a Hebrew school and a Hebrew press in his native Reggio Emilia. (Later he became the rabbi of the Jewish community of Florence and established the first Hebrew printing press there.) His mature work is devoted primarily to issues of language, style, and rhetoric.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Two titles bound together. 12mo (16cm); xii, 108 pages; [16] leaves. Text in Hebrew. Apparently bound together in 1822 in original publisher's blue printed wraps, perhaps with remaindered copies of the second title, which was published at Livorno in 1792. Wraps stained, portions of spine perished. Text clean. Preserved in custom clamshell case. Busi, #28; Cf. Salah, "La République des lettres," #243. From modest origins, Anania Coen emerged as a principle Jewish intellectual who established a Hebrew school and a Hebrew press in his native Reggio Emilia. Later he became the rabbi of the Jewish community of Florence and established one of the first Hebrew printing presses there. His mature work is devoted primarily to issues of language, style, and rhetoric (as opposed to the vast body of Hebrew publishing devoted to religious and Talmudic arguments). He was extremely interested in developing a model for spoken Hebrew that would be based in the scriptural language but include neologisms, anticipating the spoken Hebrew of the Zionist movement. As a lexicographer, he wrote a Hebrew-Italian dictionary (Ma'aneh ha-lashon, 1811-12), and a lexicon of Talmudic Hebrew with definitions in Hebrew and Italian (Sefer Safah ahat, 1822). In addition to his Hebrew publications, Coen published several translations into Italian of British rationalists such as Pope and Hume, and some of the Romantic novels of Walter Scott! In 1822, Coen published this essay on language and prosody. According to Giulio Busi's monograph on Coen, Ruah Hadasha "is perhaps the most significant document of Jewish poetic theory in Italy during the 18th and 19th centuries, . offering a clear and original treatment of the intricate matter of Hebrew versification." Busi continues, "In effect, Ruah Hadasha is the synthesis of the long literary process that detached Italian Judaism from Medieval Judeo-Arabic models" (Anania Coen: editore e letterato ebreo tra sette e ottocento, Bologna, 1992, p. 27-28). The citations in the text include examples of modern Hebrew poetry (by Yeshua Hai Carmi, among others) alongside biblical and Talmudic selections.…