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Ta‘ame sukkah (Discourse on Sukkot): Account of His Printing Problems
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And in it they will find a commentary appropriate to everyone and in it many precious midrashim, sharp pilpulim, light and weighty, Sinai and uprooter of mountains (Berakhot 64a, that is both breadth…

Contributor:

Nathan Hannover

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1652

Subjects:

Print, Holidays, Sukkot

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Firsthand Accounts, Reportage
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 and linguistics, Ritual object

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage
Introduction: Simeon bar Tsemaḥ, Sefer ha-tashbets
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This is both Sinai and the uprooter of mountains, the book Sefer Hatashbeṣ, which was composed by the king, the great eagle, the renowned sage, the grand prince, the light of…

Contributor:

Meir Crescas

Places:

Europe, Holy Roman Empire (Europe)

Date:

1739

Subjects:

Travel, Writing, Print, Torah study, Cities

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Travel Writing, Reportage