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Printing, which Jews adopted immediately after its invention, helped to unify far-flung communities. Where previously Jewish learning had been transmitted through the individual copying of manuscripts…
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Daniel Bomberg
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1520/3
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This book was printed in Belvedere, outside Constantinople, by Reina Nasi, the daughter of Gracia Nasi, and widow of Joseph. She was the first Jewish woman to establish her own press.
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Doña Reina Mendes
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1593–1595
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This Haggadah from Amsterdam was printed by Joseph ben Abraham Athias and is adorned with elaborate copper etchings by artist Abraham Bar Jacob. It was the first Haggadah to include these sorts of…
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Joseph ben Abraham Athias, Abraham Bar Jacob
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1695
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The great work called Mishneh Torah by the rabbi, our master, Moses ben Maimon of blessed memory, comprises fourteen books.
Were it not that the Lord was with us (Psalms 124:1), the Torah might have…
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Abraham Ibn Ya‘ish
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1509
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So said Jacob ben R. ḥayim Ibn Adoniyahu of blessed memory, after completing the proofreading of Seder taharot, I intended to apologize, since the subject is not habitual, and the source texts are few…
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Daniel Bomberg, Jacob Ibn Adoniyahu
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1523
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And thus was finished the book Petah DebaraiIn the name of the living God my redeemer and rockIn the year of the creation 306On the 29th day of TishriEdited by the Hebrew grammarianElijah the Levita…
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Cornelio Adelkind
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1546
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The heart is prized as the human body’s noblest and most important organ, for it is the first to feel the pain which any other part of the body…
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Samuel Usque
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1553
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This woodcut was published in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) after Aronson had left the Soviet Union. In it, Aronson combined elements of cubo-futurism and constructivism. Several figures can be spotted…
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Boris Aronson
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Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1920
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I printed my book [Leḥem Yehudah] in Venice at the beginning of for the Almighty Shadai [in gematria = 1553] has dealt very bitterly with me (Ruth 1:20) and the ruler of Rome [the Pope] decreed that…
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Judah Lerma
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Sabbioneta, Venice (Sabbioneta, Italy)
Date:
1554
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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…
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Nathan Hannover
Places:
Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1652