Further studies in the making of the early Hebrew book [electronic resource] / by Marvin J. Heller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heller, Marvin J.

Series:

The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 37.

Brill reference library of Judaism, 1571-5000 ; v. 37

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing, Hebrew--History.

Printing, Hebrew.

Hebrew imprints--History.

Hebrew imprints.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (501 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Summary:

Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book contains essays on aspects of the early Hebrew book most often treated in a cursory manner if addressed at all. The largest section of the volume is concerned with the makers and places of Hebrew books, mainly addressing book-makers poorly remembered or controversial and print-shops that issued a small number of books in a brief period of time. The section on varia addresses aspects of the book trade such as small books, incomplete books published as a prospectus, competing simultaneous editions, and errors and variations in books. Two smaller sections deal with book arts such as incunabula frames and pressmarks; variations between medieval and current Sephardic Haggadot.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1. Behold, You Are Beautiful, My Love: The Use of Ornamental Frames in Hebrew Incunabula

2. Akedat Yitzhak (the Binding of Isaac) on the Title-Pages of Early Hebrew Books

3. The Bear Motif on Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Hebrew Books

4. In a Time of Plague: The First Hebrew Press in Adrianople

5. Abraham ha-Ger: A Proselyte Printer of Hebrew Books in Salonika

6. Kaf Nahat and the First Hebrew Press in Izmir

7. Often Overlooked: Hebrew Printing in Prostejov (Prossnitz)

8. Clarifying the Obfuscation Surrounding the Reissue of Sefer ha-Kavvanot

9. Hebrew Printing in Padua: Resumed, but Briefly

10. A Tale of Two Cities: Leipzig, Hamburg, and Don Isaac Abrabanel

11. Israel ben Abraham, His Hebrew Printing-Press in Wandsbeck, and the Books He Published

12. He Should Be Called Sama’el: Michael Levi Rodkinson: The Life and Literary Career of a Jewish Scoundrel Revisited

13. Deciphering the Talmud: The First English Edition of the Talmud Revisited. Michael Levi Rodkinson: His Translation of the Talmud, and the Ensuing Controversy

14. Sixteen Leaves or Less: Small Hebrew Works of the Seventeenth Century

15. Books Not Printed, Dreams Not Realized

16. Sibling Rivalry: Simultaneous Editions of Hebrew Books

17. Variations in and Between Early Hebrew Books

18. Often Overlooked: Examples of Front Matter in Early Hebrew Books

19. What’s in a Name? An Example of the Titling of Hebrew Books

20. Who Can Discern His Errors? Misdates, Errors, and .Deceptions, in and about Hebrew Books, Intentional and Otherwise

21. The Earliest Printings of the Talmud

22. Halakhic Continuity or Change? Medieval Sephardic Practice at the Seder

23. Purim Seforim as/with Mishlo’ah Manot? A Sixteenth-Century Case Study

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-24524-3

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004245242 DOI