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Ma’or va-shemesh (Light and Sun)
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Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful of figure and beautiful of appearance (Gen. 29:17). Targum Onkelos renders this verse as “Leah’s eyes…

Contributor:

Kalonimos Kalman Epstein

Places:

Kraków, Republic of Kraków (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1842

Subjects:

Translation, Jewish languages, Language and linguistics, Theology, Women

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology
Approbation for a Printing House
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“That which is well known needs no proof,” and the root cause is the skilled operating of the printing shop in the holy community of Żółkiew [Zhovkva], may the Rock preserve it, which was established…

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The Council of the Four Lands

Places:

Lublin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)

Date:

1699

Subjects:

Bible, Economic life, Language and linguistics, Translation, Print

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Law
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.