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Note to the Reader: Masoret ha-masoret
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This is to announce to all interested in my book that when the head of the printers, the princely Daniel Bomberg, the Christian, decided to print the Twenty…

Contributor:

Elye Bokher

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1538

Subjects:

Bible, Christian-Jewish relations, Writing, Translation, Print

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Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
Sefer ha-zikuk (The Book of Expurgation)
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1. Whenever the term idolaters appears, and it is not clearly referring…

Contributor:

Domenico Gerosolomitano

Places:

Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)

Date:

1596

Subjects:

Translation, Polemics, Christian-Jewish relations, Christianity, Print

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Firsthand Accounts
Latin-Hebrew Edition of the Mishnah
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This page comes from the first of six volumes of Guilielmus Surenhuys’s translation of the Mishnah into Latin, printed in Amsterdam. At center is a depiction of Moses and Aaron standing beside a…

Contributor:

Willem Surenhuys

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1698

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Translation, Language and linguistics, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print with central rectangular scene of men at podium surrounded by ten circles with images of figures and animals, and scene at bottom of large crowd outside city.
List of Books
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During his life, Samuel Abbas amassed an impressive library that included 1,136 books in different languages—Latin (more than four hundred works), Hebrew, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and…

Contributor:

Samuel Abbas

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1693

Subjects:

Print, Libraries, Rabbis, Translation, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Lists & Catalogues
Printed page with Hebrew and Latin text and small illustration of book with decorative border.
Colophon: Elye Bokher’s Petaḥ devaray
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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…

Contributor:

Cornelio Adelkind

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1546

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Christian-Jewish relations, Writing, Print, Translation

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches