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During his life, Samuel Abbas amassed an impressive library that included 1,136 books in different languages—Latin (more than four hundred works), Hebrew, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and…

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Samuel Abbas

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1693

Subjects:

Print, Libraries, Rabbis, Translation, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Print & book culture, Lists & catalogues
Printed page with Hebrew and Latin text and small illustration of book with decorative border.
A Ruling on the Printing of the Zohar
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The earth made noise as did the heavens, and the doorposts are shaking at the voice crying out that it would be wrong to publish hidden and sealed materials and to break through the fence established…

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Isaac de Lattes

Places:

Pesaro, Duchy of Urbino (Pesaro, Italy)

Date:

1558

Subjects:

Mysticism, Kabbalah, Oral Torah, Rabbis, Print

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Firsthand accounts