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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

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Print & book culture
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.