Further Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69319-7
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 78, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1035 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies

Further Essays addresses aspects of early Hebrew book publication, among them book arts, little known authors, places of publication, and miscellaneous subjects. Book arts addresses pressmarks representing publishers motifs, several unusual, and the varied usage of biblical verses to entitle books. The second section focusses on the works of rabbis and scholars, once prominent but not well remembered today, noting their achievements and their varied books, encompassing such topics as biblical commentaries, Talmudic novellae, philosophy, and poetry. Several locations once important, also not well remembered today are addressed; Further Essays concludes with articles on other unrelated book topics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heller, Marvin J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Section Introductions

Part 1 Hebrew Book Arts

1 Rare and Unusual Motifs on Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Book Title-Pages

2 The Deer Motif on Early Hebrew Book Title-Pages

3 Zafenat Pane’ah: A Further Example in the Titling of Hebrew Books

4 Heshek Shelomo: Varied Heartfelt Books so Entitled

Part 2 Makers of Hebrew Books

5 The Porto Family: Eminent Sages, Scholars, and Prolific Seventeenth-Century Authors

6 Abraham Menahem ben Jacob ha-Kohen Rapa mi-Porto (Rapaport) Ashkenazi: A Renaissance Rabbi of Interest

7 Jacob ben Samuel Bunim Koppelman: A Sixteenth-Century Multi-Faceted Jewish Scholar

8 The Albelda Family: Moses and Moses Jacob Albelda—Prominent, Eminent Scholars

9 Moses ben Baruch Almosnino: A Sixteenth-Century Multi-Faceted Sephardic Sage in Salonika

10 Judah Leib Pukhovitser: The Life and Ethical Works of a Kabbalist

11 Jacob Judah (Aryeh) de Leão Templo: A Converso Scholar, a Jewish Hakham

12 Jacob ben Elhanan Heilbronn: A Multi-Faceted Erudite Scholar

13 Solomon de Oliveyra: A Seventeenth-Century Sephardic Sage

Part 3 Places of Hebrew Books

14 Guadalajara: A Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Press of Distinction

15 Early Hebrew Printing in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

16 A Fleeting Moment, A Short-Lived Press: Hebrew Printing in Sixteenth-Century Fez

17 Hebrew Printing in Turka: Home to a Barely Remembered Hebrew Press

18 Tarnopol: A Short-Lived Early-Nineteenth-Century Hebrew Press

19 Hebrew Printing in Lissa (Leszno): A Brief (Perchance) Transitory Moment

20 Halberstadt: A Small but Significant Hebrew Press in a Saxon Community

Part 4 Book Varia

21 For a Remembrance: Books so Entitled as a Remembrance for the Author

22 Sefer ha-Tappu’ah (Book of the Apple): Aristotle Expresses an Interest in Jewish Concepts

23 An Enigmatic Pseudo-Shklov Edition of Barukh She?amar

24 Tzevi Hirsch of Nadworna’s Sefer Alpha Beta

25 Yalkut Re?uveni: Abraham Reuben ben Hoeshke’s Popular Kabbalistic Midrashic Collection

26 R. Nathan Nata ben Reuben David Tebele Spira and His Works

Ma?amar Yayin ha-Meshummar, on the Prohibition against Drinking Stam Yeinam (Gentile Wine), and Contemporary Books on This Subject

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marvin J. Heller is an award-winning author of books and articles on early Hebrew printing and bibliography. Among his books are the Printing the Talmud series, The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book(s): An Abridged Thesaurus, and collections of articles.