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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Authorship with Regard to the Hebrew Book

  • Beit-Arie, Malachi
    “The Affinity Between Early Hebrew Printing and Manuscripts,” [Hebrew] pp. 27-39, 113 in, Essays and Studies in Librarianship Presented to Curt David Wormann (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1975) edd. Mordekhai Nadav and Jacob Rothschild
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z674 .E78 1975

  • Beit-Arié, Malachi
    “The Relationship between Early Hebrew Printing and Handwritten Books:  Attachment or Detachment?,” Scripta Hierosolymitana XXIX (1989) 1-26
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z843.I8 S34 1989
    Research Annex (LIBRA). AS591.J4 A25 v.29

  • Campanini, Saverio
    “On Abraham's Neck. The Editio Princeps of the Sefer Yetzirah (Mantua 1562) and Its context,” pp. 253 – 278 in, Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012) edd. Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto   
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM755.M59 R33 2012
    Van Pelt Library. BM755.M59 R33 2012

  • Chabás, José and Bernard R. Goldstein
    Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula:  Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print
    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, n.s. 90.2 (2000)
    Van Pelt Library. Q11 .P6 v.90 pt.2

  • Cohen-Skalli, Cedric
    “Authorship in the Age of Early Jewish Print:  Isaac Abravanel’s Ma‘aynei ha-Yeshu‘a and the First Printed Edition in Ferrara 1551,” pp. 185-201 in, Tradition, Heterodoxy and Religious Culture:  Judaism and Christianity in the Early Modern Period (Beer-Sheva:  Ben-Gurion University Press, 2006) edd. Chanita Goodblatt and Howard Kreisel
    Van Pelt Library. BM535 .T72 2006
    http://hsf.bgu.ac.il/cjt/files/library%20files/tradition/Cedric%20Cohen-Skalli.pdf

  • Cohen-Skalli, Cedric
    “Yitshaq Abravanel’s First Edition (Constantinople 1505) Rhetorical Content and Editorial Background,” Hispania Judaica 5 (2007) 153-76
    Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.S7 H576
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.S7 H576

  • Cooperman, Bernard Dov
    “Organizing knowledge for the Jewish market: an editor/printer in sixteenth-century Rome,” pp. 78-129 in, Perspectives on the Hebraic Book: The Myron M. Weinstein Memorial Lectures at the Library of Congress (Washington D.C.:  Library of Congress, 2012) ed. Peggy K. Pearlstein
    Available via BorrowDirect from Yale University

  • De Rossi, Giovanni Bernando; tr. by Marvin J. Heller
    Translation of Dizionario Storico Degli Autori Ebrei E Delle Loro Opere/Dictionary of Hebrew Authors
    Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 1999
    Katz Center - Stacks. PJ5014 .D4713 1999
    Van Pelt Library. PJ5014 .D4713 1999

  • Dweck, Yaacob
    “Leon Modena's Ari Nohem Between Print and Manuscript,” pp.  50-57 in, Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History. EMW 2009: Reading across Cultures:  The Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period
    http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/emw/emw2009/

  • Dweck, Yaacob
    Editing Safed: The Career of Isaac Gershon  Jewish Studies Quarterly, Volume 17, Special Issue: Jews in Ottoman Lands (2010) 44-55
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery BM70 .J485
    Van Pelt Library BM70 .J485
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40753504.pdf?_=1464982575927

  • Grafton, Anthony
    “The Importance of Being Printed,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 11 (1980) 265-86
    Research Annex (LIBRA). D1 .J59

  • Hacker, Joseph R.
    “Authors, Readers and Printers of Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Books in the Ottoman Empire,” pp. 16-63 in, Perspectives on the Hebraic Book: The Myron M. Weinstein Memorial Lectures at the Library of Congress (Washington D.C.:  Library of Congress, 2012) ed. Peggy K. Pearlstein
    Available via BorrowDirect from Yale University

  • Hacker, Joseph R.
    “The intellectual activity of the Jews of the Ottoman Empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,” pp. 95-135 in, Jewish thought in the 17th century (Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1987) edd. Isadore Twersky and Bernard Septimus
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM193 .J48 1987
    Van Pelt Library. BM193 .J482 1987

  • Idel, Moshe
    “Printing Kabbalah in Sixteenth-Century Italy,” pp. 85-96 in, Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe.  Essays in honor of David B. Ruderman (Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press; Cincinnati, OH : Hebrew Union College Press, 2014) edd.  Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Adam Shear, and Elchanan Reiner
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.E82 J49 2014

  • Idel, Moshe
    “From R. Isaac Sagi Nahor and R. Isaac Luria:  From Hiding to Printing an Esoteric Lore,” Studia Judaica 21 (2014) 5-40
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.R7 S77

  • Maier, Johann
    "Il 'Sefer Hasidim.'  Il manoscritto parmense 3280 e l'edizione di Bologna, 1538 - osservazioni critiche," pp. 129-136 in, Manoscritti, frammenti e libri ebraici nell'Italia dei secoli XV-XVI : Atti del VII congresso internazionale dell'AISG, S. Miniato, 7-8-9 novembre 1988 (Rome :  Carucci, 1991) edd. Giuliano Tamani and Angelo Vivian
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 M36 1991

  • Okun, Yael
    “The relations between manuscript and prints in the Library of Ish Ger [Abraham Joseph Solomon ben Mordecai Graziano],” [Hebrew] Asufot 10 (1997) 267-285
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. BM1 .A79
    Van Pelt Library. BM1 .A79

  • Perani, Mauro
    "La Bibbia ebraica Soncino di Brescia del 1494.  Un Esempio di continuita fra Manoscritto e Incunabolo," pp. 141-170 in, Gli ebrei a Castel Goffredo: con uno studio sulla Bibbia Soncino di Brescia del 1494 (Firenze :  Casa Editrice Giuntina, 1998) ed. Mauro Perani
    Available via BorrowDirect from Harvard University, Brown University et al.

  • Regev, Shaul
    “The Study, Writing and Printing of Philosophical Books in the Sixteenth Century,” [Hebrew] Pe’amim 97 (2003) 81-105
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .P47
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .P47

  • Reiner, Elchanan
    “The Ashkenazi Elite at the Beginning of the Modern Era - Manuscript Versus Printed Book,” Polin- Studies in Polish Jewry 10 (1997) 85-98
    Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.P6 P56
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.P6 P56

  • Stow, Kenneth R.
    “Writing in Hebrew, Thinking in Italian,” pp. 1-15 in, Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome: Challenge, Conversion, and Private Life (Aldershot, ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate,Variorum, 2007) ed. Kenneth R. Stow
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.I85 R6635 2007

  • Tamani, Giuliano
    "Dal libro manoscitto al libro stampato," pp. 9-27 in, Manoscritti, frammenti e libri ebraici nell'Italia dei secoli XV-XVI : Atti del VII congresso internazionale dell'AISG, S. Miniato, 7-8-9 novembre 1988 (Rome :  Carucci, 1991) edd. Giuliano Tamani and Angelo Vivian
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 M36 1991

  • Timm, Erika
    “Wie Elia Levita sein Bovobuch für den Druck über-arbeitete. Ein Kapitel aus der italo-jiddischen Literatur der Renaissancezeit,” Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 41 (1991)  61-81
    Van Pelt Library.  PB3 .G3

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