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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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