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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Jewish Women Printers

  • Akrap, Domagoi
    “‘Viele Töchter hatten Erfolg.’ – Frauen im Jüdischen Buchwesen, ” 134-44 in, ? Beste aller Frauen: weibliche Dimensionen im Judentum (Wien:  Jüdisches Mus. d. Stadt Wien, 2007) edd. Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz, Wiebke Krohn and Domagoi Akrap.   
    Van Pelt Library. HQ1172 .B47 2007

  • Breger, Jennifer
    “The Role of Women in Hebrew Printing,” Antiquarian Bookman 91 (March 29, 1993) 1320-1329
    Research Annex (LIBRA Special) - must be used in Rare Book Reading Room. Z999.A01 A5

  • Breger, Jennifer
    Online contribution to the Jewish Women’s Archive
    http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/printers

  • Breger, Jennifer
    “Books printed by Jewish women,” [199-?]
    Photocopy of 13 unnumbered leaves typescript, held at the British Library; it is possible to order a pdf.

  • Galante, Abraham
    Esther Kyra d'apres de nouveaux documents : contribution à l'histoire des Juifs de Turquie
    Constantinople : Socie´te´ anonyme de papeterie et d'imprimerie (Fr. Hai¨m), 1926
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.T83 K9631 1926

  • Haberman, A.M.
    “Jewish Women as Printers, Typesetters, Publishers and Book Patrons of Writers,” [Hebrew] (Berlin:  Rubin Mas, 1933)
    HebrewBooks.org = http://hebrewbooks.org/36857

  • Hill, Brad Sabin
    “Index of women printers,” vol. 1, lxxxviii in volume one; “Index of typresetters,” vol. 1, xci-xcvi (lists only three women typesetters (Rebecca and Reichel Jüls, Bela Schlenker), Catalogue of Hebrew printers (ca. 1500-ca. 1900) : as represented in the holdings of the British Museum (now British Library) : reproduced from the unpublished manuscript held in the Hebrew Section, Oriental and India Office Collections, three volumes
    London : British Library, 1995
    Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z231 .B75 1995a

  • Karp, Abraham J.
    “Let Her Works Praise Her,” pp. 167-180 in, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (Washington D.C.: Library of Congress,1991) ed. Abraham J. Karp
    Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z6375 .K37 1991
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z6375 .K37 1991

  • Kayserling, Meyer
    “Setzerinnen und Druckerinnen,” pp. 146-149 in, Die jüdischen Frauen in der Geschichte, Literatur und Kunst (Leipzig :  F. A. Brockhaus, 1879)
    Katz Center - Stacks. BS1199.W7 K39 1879

  • Mitrani-Samarian, Salomon
    “Un typographe juif en Espagne avant 1482,” Revue des études juives 54 (1907) 246-49
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .R45
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .R45

  • Mordtmann, J.H.
    “Die jüdischen Kira im Serai der Sultane,” Westasiatische Studien = Mitteilungen des Seminars für orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin 32 (1929) 1-38
    Van Pelt Library. PJ25 .B5

  • Spiegel, Gideon
    “The Jewess from Constantinople: The Story of Esther Kira (1539 - 1592),” [Hebrew] Mahut 20 (1998) 55-79
    Katz Center - Periodicals B1.  PJ5001.Z44
    Van Pelt Library. PJ5001 .Z44

  • Steinschneider, Moritz
    “Die judischen Frauen und die judische Literatur: Druckerinnen und Setzerinnen,” Hebraische Bibliographie 1 (1858) 66–68 and 2 (1859) 33–35
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000046137  

  • Yaari, Avraham
    “The Printing House of Rabbanit Judith Rosanes in Lvov,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 17 (1940) 95-108
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Yaari, Avraham
    “Women in the Holy Endeavor (of Printing),” [Hebrew] pp. 256-302 in, מחקרי ספר ; פרקים בתולדות הספר העברי = Studies in Hebrew booklore (Jerusalem: 1958)
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z228.H4 Y12 1958

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