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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon
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This is an image of the title page of the first printing of Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon (The Book of Victory). The book was first published in Altdorf in 1644 by the priest Theodore…

Contributor:

Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Theodore Hackspan

Places:

Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Holy Roman Empire (Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Germany)

Date:

Late 14th to early 15th Century

Subjects:

Print, Theology, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics, Apostasy

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Printed page with Hebrew text in center under archway, flanked by two figures in robes, with a figure on top amid landscape background, and two figures below text under stone archway.
Haggadah from Prague, 1526
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This Haggadah from Prague, printed by Gershom and Grunim Katz with illustrations that are thought to be by Ḥayyim ben David Shaḥor, is one of the earliest Haggadahs ever printed. It was the first…

Contributor:

Gershom Katz, Ḥayyim Schwarz

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1526

Subjects:

Print, Haggadah, Passover, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Facing-page of printed Hebrew text on right side and illustration on left side of Hebrew text surrounded by four full-length figures, decorative border, and two animal-human hybrids on the bottom of page on either side of shield with lion.
Spanish Edition of David Nieto’s Mateh Dan (The Tribe of Dan)
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This is a Spanish edition of David Nieto’s Mateh Dan (The Tribe of Dan). David Nieto’s best-known work constitutes a defense of the oral law and rabbinic tradition, addressed to former New Christians…

Contributor:

David Nieto

Places:

London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Bible, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Biblical Commentary
Printed page of Spanish text under decorative, columned archway with lintel featuring winged men with helmets holding banners on either side of portrait of bearded man holding a book.
Haggadah from Mantua, 1560
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This Haggadah from Mantua, published by the Christian printer Giacomo Rufinelli under the supervision of Isaac ben Solomon Bassan, relies heavily on the Prague Haggadah of 1526, with the addition of…

Contributor:

Isaac ben Samuel Bassan, Giacomo Rufinelli

Places:

Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)

Date:

1560

Subjects:

Print, Haggadah, Passover, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Facing-page print with left-hand page of Hebrew text with decorative border and woodcut illustration on bottom of man riding ox next to brick building and man playing horn, and right-hand page with Hebrew text surrounded by decorative border including cherubs playing instruments.