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Proofreader’s Preface: Seder tefilot ke-minhag kahal kadosh Sefarad (The Order of the Prayers of the Holy Congregation of Spain)
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Menasseh ben Joseph ben Israel, seeing the Bomberg types worn out, and since nothing can be imperfect for the Holy Work, arose from within the community and went out, and came to the house of an…

Contributor:

Isaac Aboab da Fonseca

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1627

Subjects:

Print, Artists, Language & linguistics, Ritual objects, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
Letter to Shmuel Niger on the New Jewish Book
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Deeply respected Niger,I ask you to endure me in Russian.I want to express to you my happiness that we are approaching the time of the new Jewish book, a book created with love towards [the thing]…

Contributor:

El Lissitzky

Places:

Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Print, Jewish identity, Writing, Artists, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Self Portrait in his Map of Eretz Israel
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When Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik created the first printed map of the Holy Land in Hebrew, he included this portrait of himself. The Hebrew under the image of the sun intertwined with a Star of David…

Contributor:

Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1620/21

Subjects:

Portrait, Print, Artists, Travel, Economic life

Categories:

Print & book culture
Print of half-body portrait of man underneath sun and Hebrew writing.