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Latin-Hebrew Edition of the Mishnah
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This page comes from the first of six volumes of Guilielmus Surenhuys’s translation of the Mishnah into Latin, printed in Amsterdam. At center is a depiction of Moses and Aaron standing beside a…

Contributor:

Willem Surenhuys

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1698

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Translation, Language and linguistics, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print with central rectangular scene of men at podium surrounded by ten circles with images of figures and animals, and scene at bottom of large crowd outside city.
Spanish Edition of David Nieto’s Mateh Dan (The Tribe of Dan)
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This is a Spanish edition of David Nieto’s Mateh Dan (The Tribe of Dan). David Nieto’s best-known work constitutes a defense of the oral law and rabbinic tradition, addressed to former New Christians…

Contributor:

David Nieto

Places:

London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Bible, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics

Categories:

Print & book culture, Biblical commentary
Printed page of Spanish text under decorative, columned archway with lintel featuring winged men with helmets holding banners on either side of portrait of bearded man holding a book.
Bomberg Babylonian Talmud
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Printing, which Jews adopted immediately after its invention, helped to unify far-flung communities. Where previously Jewish learning had been transmitted through the individual copying of manuscripts…

Contributor:

Daniel Bomberg

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1520/3

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Torah study, Christian-Jewish relations, Profession

Categories:

Print & book culture
Printed page with Hebrew text and decorated Hebrew word in top register.