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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2015 Bibliography Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries! The AJL Judaica Bibliography Award was established to encourage the publication of outstanding Judaica bibliographies. The intellectual legacy of the ancient community of Iranian Jews rests in several large but neglected Judeo-Persian manuscript collections. The largest in the West, and the third largest collection in the world (198 manuscripts), belongs to the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York. Primarily a work of reference, this Catalog informs scholars in the fields of Judaica and Iranica about the range of subjects (history, poetry, medicine, philology, etc.) that engaged Iranian Jews between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. It reflects the intellectual parameters of Iranian Jewry by describing the extent to which they were acquainted with classical Jewish texts while they were deeply enmeshed in the literary and artistic sensibilities of their Iranian environment.
Table of ContentsPreface Table of Transliteration Introduction I. Accounts II. Dīwān III. Epics IV. Folklore and magic V. History VI. Liturgy VII. Medicine IIX.Midrash IX. Miscellany X. Philology XI. Philosophy XII. Religious texts XII. Tales Appendix I Indices 1. Index of MSS with dates and/or colophons 2. Index of names 3. Index of titles and principal headings 4. Index of incipits and first words of lyrical poetry Bibliography
