SIMS-Katz Distinguished Fellow's Lecture in Jewish Manuscript Studies (Penn, 2/8)
Update: Due to a family emergency, Professor Alessandro Guetta has had to postpone his fellowship and consequently this lecture. His talk will be rescheduled at a later time.
In partnership with the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the Penn Libraries is pleased to announce the 2016-2017 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellow's Lecture in Jewish Manuscript Studies:
"Just for fun”: Making and Reading Hebrew-Italian Translations of the Early Modern Period
Presented by Professor Alessandro Guetta, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris,
and the 2016-2017 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Manuscript Studies
Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 5:15-6:30 PM
Lecture sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program
Professor Guetta will consider the significance of the 16th-century phenomenon of translation of Hebrew texts into Tuscan, the literary language of Italy. What motivated this small and largely unstudied endeavor, one not seen in other European Jewish communities of the time? Was it "just for fun," as one of these translators declared? Or, given that Tuscan would become a vital element of cultural and national cohesion, did it belong to a strategy of acculturation?
For more information and to register, go to http://www.library.upenn.edu/