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Igerot Shadal (Letters of Samuel David Luzzatto)
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I am a friend to all lovers of Torah and wisdom and my only desire and my complete salvation rest in disseminating the sources of the Torah in order that the earth will be full of the knowledge of God…

Contributor:

Samuel David Luzzatto

Places:

Padua, Austrian Empire (Padova, Italy)

Date:

1851

Subjects:

Prayer, Print, Diaspora, Ritual & observance, Scholarship

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Latin-Hebrew Edition of Jossipon
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The supposed author of Josippon (an account of Jewish history from the Garden of Eden to the destruction of the Second Temple) was Josephus Flavius, though it is now generally believed that the book…

Contributor:

Sebastian Münster

Places:

Basel, Switzerland

Date:

1541

Subjects:

Print, Scholarship, Translation, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

History, Literature, Print & Book Culture
Printed page of Latin text.
Technical Diagram from Joseph Delmedigo’s Elim
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This is a technical diagram from Joseph Delmedigo’s Sefer Elim (Book of Elim), a scientific and philosophical work published by Menasseh Ben Israel.

Contributor:

Menasseh Ben Israel, Joseph Solomon Delmedigo

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1629

Subjects:

Print, Technology, Math, Scholarship, Profession

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy
Printed page with Hebrew text on right side and illustration of tall tower with wheels inside it on left side.