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Anshel of Kraków, Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot)
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Frontispiece of Anshel of Kraków’s Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot), a Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary of biblical words. The earliest Yiddish book printed in Poland, it was published in 1534 in…

Contributor:

Anshel of Kraków, Szmuel, Aszer, and Eljakim Helicz

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1534

Subjects:

Print, Yiddish, Jewish languages, Translation

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Printed page of four shields depicting a castle, an eagle, a snake devouring a person, and a knight on horseback, surrounded by Hebrew words, sheaves, ribbons, and flowers.
Polyglot Bible (Constantinople)
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This is the frontispiece and first page of the Constantinople Polyglot Bible, the first of two multilingual editions of the Pentateuch printed by Eliezer Soncino in Constantinople. It contained the…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1546

Subjects:

Print, Bible, Jewish languages, Translation, Diaspora

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Printed page of Hebrew text in center and decorative border around page with urns, flowers, vines, and faces.
Synagogue Judaica
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This is the frontispiece of a 1661 edition of Synagoga Judaica, a study of the customs and culture of German Jewry by Christian Hebraist, and polemical critic of Judaism, Johannes Buxtorf the Elder…

Contributor:

Johannes Buxtorf

Places:

Basel, Switzerland

Date:

1661

Subjects:

Print, Christian-Jewish relations, Education, Circumcision, Jewish languages

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Printed page with Latin text in the center, surrounded by two images, the top of people sitting in front of a teacher and board with Hebrew letters on it, and the bottom of men sitting around a baby.
Catalogo dos Libros que Semuel Ben Israel Soeiro Vende (Catalogue of Books for Sale by Samuel Ben Israel Soeiro)
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These three pages come from a catalogue of books listed for sale by Samuel Ben Israel Soeiro, a bookseller in Amsterdam. It lists first the Hebrew books and then the ones in Spanish. He printed the…

Contributor:

Samuel ben Israel Soeiro, Menasseh Ben Israel

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1652

Subjects:

Print, Libraries, Jewish languages, Economic life, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Lists & Catalogues
Printed page in Portuguese with two narrow columns on right of main text.
A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue
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Contributor:

Judah Monis

Places:

Boston, Great Britain (Boston, United States of America)

Date:

1735

Subjects:

Print, Education, Jewish languages, Conversion

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Pedagogy & Schooling
Printed page with English and two Hebrew sentences near top and bottom of page.