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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Reading the Hebrew Book

  • Bar-Levav, Avriel
    “Amsterdam and the Inception of the Jewish Republic of Letters,” pp. 225-37 in, The Dutch Intersection: The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008) ed. Yosef Kaplan
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.N4 D87 2008
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.N4 D87 2008

  • Bar-Levav, Avriel
    “What Could be Done with Four Hundred Books? A Proposal for a Jewish Library, Krakow 1571,” [Hebrew] Zmanim 112 (2010) 42-49
    Katz Center - Periodicals B1. D1 .Z39
    Van Pelt Library. D1 .Z39
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23447047.pdf?_=1463424761854

  • Bar-Levav, Avriel
    “Between the World of the Texts and the World of the Readers,” [Hebrew] pp. 95-122 in,  חוט של חן : שי לחוה טורניאנסקי     = Touch of grace : presented to Chava Turniansky (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2013)
    Van Pelt Library. BM42 .H88 2013

  • Bar-Levav, Avriel
    “Between Library Awareness and the Jewish Republic of Letters,” [Hebrew] pp. 209-220 in,   ספריות ואוספי ספרים = Libraries and Book Collections (Jerusalem:  Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2006) edd. Yosef Kaplan and Moshe Sluhovsky
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z721 .S54 2006
    Van Pelt Library. Z721 .S54 2006

  • Bar-Levav, Avriel
    “Amsterdam and the Inception of the Jewish Republic of Letters,” pp. 225-237 in, The Dutch Intersection.  The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History (Leiden :  Brill, 2008) ed. Yosef Kaplan
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.N4 D87 2008
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.N4 D87 2008

  • Baruchson, Shifra
    “Jewish Libraries:  Culture and Reading Interests in 16th Century Italy,” Library History 10 (1994) 19-26
    Research Annex (LIBRA) Z721 .L42
    http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/89576

  • Baruchson, Shifra, ed.
    ספרים וקוראים : תרבות הקריאה של יהודי איטליה בשלהי הרנסנס = Books and Readers: The Reading Interests of Italian Jews at the Close of the Renaissance
    Ramat Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1993
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.I8 B34 1993
    [La culture livresque des juifs d'Italie à la fin de la Renaissance (Paris : CNRS e´ditions, c2001) French tr. by Gabriel Roth
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.I8 B3714 2001]

  • Baruchson, Shifra
    “Diffusion of Books:  Sacred Writing and Classical Literature in the Libraries of Renaissance Jews,” [Hebrew] Italia 8 (1978) 87-99
    Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.I85 A1 I85
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 I85

  • Baruchson, Shifra
    “A Professional Library in Italy in the Late Renaissance [Yitshak Sulam's professional library; Mantua, 1595],” [Hebrew] Alei Sefer 10 (1982) 37-50
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z228.H4 A57
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A57
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24160127.pdf?_=1462995713305

  • Bonfil, Robert
    “The Libraries of Italian Jewry between the Middle Ages and Modern Times,” [Hebrew] Pe'amim 52 (1992) 4-15
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .P47
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .P47

  • Bonfil, Robert
    “Le biblioteche degli ebrei d'italia nel Rinascimento,” Manoscritti, frammenti e libri ebraici nell'Italia dei secoli XV–XVI,” pp. 137-150 in, Manoscritti, frammenti e libri ebraici  nell’Italia dei secoli XV-XVI (Rome :  Carucci, 1991) edd. Giulio Tamani and Angelo Vivian
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 M36 1991

  • Bonfil, Robert
    “Reading in the Jewish Communities of Western Europe in the Middle Ages,” pp. 149-178 in, A History of Reading in the West (Amherst:  University of Massachusetts Press, 1999) edd. Roger Chartier and Guglielmo Cavallo, trs. Lydia G. Cochrane
    Van Pelt Library. Z1003.3.E85 S7613 1999
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Furness Collection. Z1003.3.E85 S7613 1999

  • Burnett, Stephen G.
    “Birth of a Christian Hebrew Reading Public,” pp. 11-48 in, Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660): Authors, Books, and the Transmission of Jewish Learning (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012)
    Katz Center - Stacks. PJ4533 .B87 2012
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628). PJ4533 .B87 2012

  • Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History. EMW 2009: Reading across Cultures:  The Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period
    15 papers
    http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/emw/emw2009/

  • Grafton, Anthony and Joanna Weinberg
    “How Casaubon Read Hebrew Texts,” pp. 60-120 in, I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (Harvard University Press, 2011)
    Katz Center - Stacks. PA85.C3 G73 2011
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628). PA85.C3 G73 2011

  • Gries, Zeev
    “L'imprimerie comme moyen de communication entre les communautes Juives (Prolégomèns à une analyse d'après des examples du XVIe siecle),” pp. 229-244, 659-664 in, La Socie´te´ juive a` travers l'histoire, Tome IV, Le Peuple-Monde (Paris:  Fayard, 1993) ed. Shmuel Trigano
    Available via BorrowDirect or E-Z Borrow

  • Gries, Zeev
    “On Reading and Readers,” pp. 20-34 in, The Book in the Jewish World: 1700-1900 (Oxford ; Portland, Or.:  Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007)
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 G7513 2007
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 G7513 2007

  • Gries, Zeev
    “Print as an Agent of Communication between Jewish Communities in the Period Close to the Expulsion from Spain,” [Hebrew] Da'at 28 (1992) 5-17
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. B154 .D3
    Van Pelt Library. B154 .D3

  • Hacker, Joseph R.
    “Public Libraries of Hispanic Jewry in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods,” [Hebrew] pp. 263-283 in, ראשונים ואחרונים : מחקרים בתולדות ישראל מוגשים לאברהם גרוסמן  = From Sages to Savants: studies presented to Avraham Grossman (Jerusalem : Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2010) edd. Joseph R. Hacker, Yosef Kaplan and B.Z. Kedar
    Van Pelt Library. DS102.4 .R57 2010

  • Kaplan, Yosef
    “The Libraries of Three Sephardi Rabbis in Early Modern Western Europe,” [Hebrew] pp. 225-260 in,   ספריות ואוספי ספרים = Libraries and Book Collections (Jerusalem:  Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2006) edd. Yosef Kaplan and Moshe Sluhovsky
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z721 .S54 2006
    Van Pelt Library. Z721 .S54 2006

  • Lapon-Kandelshein, Ester
    "Hebrew natural science publications from the 15th to the 18th centuries: cultural and social aspects"
    Library of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel             
    https://is.biu.ac.il/files/is/Kandelshein_en.pdf

  • Lapon Kandelshein, E (s) and Baruchson-Arbib, Shifra
    “Hebrew scientific publications from 15th to 18th centuries : Social and cultural aspects,” La Bibliofilia, 104.2 (2002) 167-188
    Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .B56

  • Mann, Vivian B. and Daniel D. Chazin
    “Printing, Patronage and Prayer:  Art Historical Issues in Three Responsa,” Images:  A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 1 (2007) 91-97
    Research Annex (LIBRA). N7415 .I459

  • Pavoncello, Nello
    “La Biblioteca privata di un ebreo italiano del XVI secolo,” Accademie e Biblioteche d’Italia 62 (1994) 44-54
    Van Pelt Library. Z671 .A18

  • Pavoncello, Nello
    “Una lista di libri ebraici della prima metà del '500,” Annali – Istituto Universitario Orientale 53 (1993) 113-119
    Van Pelt Library. PJ6 .N32

  • Popkin, Richard H.
    “Two Treasures of Marsh’s Library,” pp. 1-12 in, Judaeo-Christian Intellectual Culture in the Seventeenth Century: A celebration of the Library of Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713) edd. Allison P. Coudert, Sarah Hutton, Richard H. Popkin and Gordon M. Weiner (Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c1999)
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z921.M37 J8 1999
    Van Pelt Library. Z921.M37 J8 1999

  • Reiner, Elchanan
    “ “No Jew Should Learn Anything but the Talmud Alone”:  A Dispute over Books and Forbidden Books in 16th Century Ashkenaz,” [Hebrew] pp. II:725-27, 735-40 in,  תא שמע : מחקרים במדעי היהדות לזכרו של ישראל מ׳ תא־שמע  =   Ta Shma:  Studies in Judaica in Memory of Israel M. Ta-Shma, two volumes (Alon Shevut:  Tevunot Publishing, 2011) edd. Avraham Reiner, et al.
    Van Pelt Library.  BM42 .T37 2011

  • Reiner, Elchanan
    “The Ashkenazi Elite at the Beginning of the Modern Era:  Manuscript versus Printed Book,” [Hebrew] Polin 10 (1997) 85-98
    Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.P6 P56
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.P6 P56

  • Romer-Segal, Agnes
    “Yiddish Literature and its Readers in the 16th Century:  Books in the Censors’ Lists, Mantua 1595,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 53 (1978) 779-790
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Roth, Cecil
    “A Seventeenth-Century Library and Trousseau,” pp. 160-169 in, Studies in Jewish Bibliography and Related Subjects in Memory of Abraham Solomon Freidus (1867-1923), late chief of the Jewish Division, New York Public Library
    (New York:  Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation, Distributed by the Jewish Division, New York Public Library, 1929)
    Katz Center - Reference Room. BM42 .F745 1929
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM42 .F745 1929
    Research Annex. LIBRA. 274B St93

  • Rothschild, Jean-Pierre
    “Les listes de livres, reflet de la culture des juifs en Italie du nord au XVe et au XVIe siècle ?,” [analyzes 48 lists] pp. 163-193 in, Manoscritti, frammenti e libri ebraici  nell’Italia dei secoli XV-XVI (Rome :  Carucci, 1991) edd. Giulio Tamani and Angelo Vivian
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 M36 1991

  • Rothschild, Jean-Pierre
    “Quelques listes de livres hébreux dans des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris,” [twelve lists, ## 1-3, 5 and 12 include printed books] Revue d'histoire des textes 17 (1987) 291-346
    Van Pelt Library. Z4 .R48
    http://www.persee.fr/doc/rht_0373-6075_1989_num_17_1987_1311

  • Rothschild, Jean-Pierre
    “Listes de livres hébreux en Italie : nouveaux documents pour une typologie,” [fifteen lists, ## 8, 9, 11 ? and 15 include printed books ; ## 5 and 14 include prices paid] Revue d'histoire des textes 19 (1989) 291-339
    Van Pelt Library. Z4 .R48
    http://www.persee.fr/doc/rht_0373-6075_1990_num_19_1989_1343

  • Rothschild, Jean-Pierre
    “Deux bibliothèques juives comtadines vers 1630,” [both lists are nearly all printed books ; no prices] Revue des études Juives 145 (1986) 75-102
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .R45
    http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=issue&journal_code=REJ&issue=1&vol=145

  • Ruderman, David B.
    "Knowledge Explosion," pp. 99-132 in, Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History (Princeton, New Jersey, 2010) ed. David B. Ruderman
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS113 .R79 2010
    Van Pelt Library. DS113 .R79 2010
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628). DS113 .R79 2010
    http://huc.edu/ckimages/files/Digest/October%2021,%202010/The%20People%20and%20the%20Book%202.pdf

  • Schmelzer, Menahem
    “Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books Among the Sephardim Before and After the Expulsion,” pp. 257-266 in, Crisis and Creativity in the Sephardic World 1391-1648 (New York : Columbia University Press, c1997) ed. Benjamin Gampel
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS134 .C75 1997
    Van Pelt Library. DS134 .C75 1997

  • Shulvass, Moses Avigdor
    “Books and Libraries Among Italian Jews during the Renaissance,” [Hebrew] Talpiyot 4 (1910) 591-605
    Katz Center - Periodicals B1. PERIODICAL

    Simonsohn, Shlomo
    “Books and Libraries of Mantuan Jews, 1595,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 37.1 (1961) 103-122
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Simonsohn, Shlomo
    “Books and Libraries of the Jews of Mantua, 1591,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 37 (1961-1962) 103-122
    Katz Center – Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Walton, Michael T.
    “Robert Boyle, “The Sceptical Chymist,” and Hebrew,” pp. 187-205 in,  Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, & Astrology in Early Modern Europe (Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, 2002) edd. Gerhild Scholz Williams and Charles D. Gunnoe
    Van Pelt Library. R147.P2 P385 2002
    Research Annex (LIBRA). R147.P2 P385 2002

  • Weinberg, Joanna
    “Real or Virtual Contact? Johannes Buxtorf's Reading of Jewish Literature,” EARLY MODERN WORKSHOP: Jewish History Resources.  Volume 9: Cross-Cultural Connections in the Early Modern Jewish World, Brown University, Providence, RI, February, 26-27, 2012
    http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=emw

  • Williams, Benjamin
    “More Than One Way to Read a Midrash: The Bodleian Copy of Bomberg’s Midrash Rabbah,” pp. 287-311 in, Jewish Books and their Readers (Leiden:  Brill, 2016) edd. Scott Mandelbrote and Joanna Weinberg
    On order

  • Williams, Benjamin
    “The 1525 Rabbinic Bible and How to Read It: A Study of the Annotated Copy in the John Rylands Library,” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library  92 (2016) 53-72
    Katz Center - Periodicals B1. Z921 .M18B
    Van Pelt Library. Z921 .M18B
    http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/manup/bjrl/2016/00000092/00000001/art00003?crawler=true

  • Williams, Benjamin
    “The Venetian Edition of Midrash Rabba in Cambridge University Library,” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 15 (2015) 583-594
    Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .C2

  • Zwiep, Irene E.
    “Adding the Reader’s Vooice:  Early Modern Ashkenzi Grammars of Hebrew,” Science in Context 20.2 (2007) 163-195
    Van Pelt Library. Q175.4 .S343

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