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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Illumination, Illustration, Decoration

  • Bowen, Karen Lee
    Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations in Sixteenth-Century Europe
    Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
    Van Pelt Library. Z291.3 .B79 2008

  • Brodsky, Harold
    “The seventeenth-century Haggadah map of Abraham Bar Yaacov,” Jewish Art 19-20 (1993/4) 148-57
    Katz Center – Stacks. N7415 .J68
    Fine Arts Library. N7415 .J68

  • Deluga, Waldemar
    “Jewish Printed Amulets,” Print Quarterly 20 (2OO3) 369-373
    Fine Arts Library NE1 .P765
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41826489.pdf

  • Epstein, Morris
    "Simon Levi Ginzburg's Illustrated Custumal (Minhagim Book) of Venice, 1593, and its Travels," pp. IV:197-218 in, Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem :  World Union of Jewish Studies, 1973)
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. BM30 .W6 1969
    http://www.jstor.org/tc/verify?origin=/stable/pdf/23522735.pdf?_=1461255785294

  • Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Naomi
    “An Illustrated Minhagim Book Printed in Amsterdam:  Simeon Levi Günzburg, Sefer
    Ha-Minhagim, Published by Uri Fayvesh Halevi,” pp. 36-37 in, Treasures of Jewish Booklore: Marking the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Leeser Rosenthal 1794-1994 (Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 1994) edd. Adri K. Offenberg et al.
    Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z688.J48 B43 1994
    Van Pelt Library. Z6375 .B534 1994

  • Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Naomi
    “Bernard Picart: Image, Text and Material Culture,” pp. 82-96 in, Gifts from the Heart. Ceremonial Objects from the Jewish Historical Museum (Amsterdam :  Zwolle, 2004) edd. Julie-Marthe Cohen, Jelka Kröger and Emile G.L. Schrijver
    Katz Center - Stacks. NK1672 .G55 2004
    Fine Arts Library. NK1672 .G55 2004
    Research Annex (LIBRA). NK1672 .G55 2004

  • Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Naomi
    “Gender in Woodcut and Engraving: Images from Jewish Venice at the Turn of the 17th Century (A Re-Examination of Sefer haMinhagim, Venice, 1593 and 1601),” pp. 101-117 in, Ein Leben für die jüdische Kunst. Gedenkband für Hannelore Künzl  (Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2003) ed. Michael Graetz
    Katz Center - Stacks. N7415 .L42 2003
    Fine Arts Library. N7415 .L42 2003

  • Frankel, David
    "Illustration, allusion, and commentary.  Choosing the four sons in 1695," Images: a journal of Jewish art and visual culture 4 (2010) 18-24
    Available on-line.  http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/187180010x547611

  • Freimann, Aaron
    “Zur Geschichte der judischen Buchillustration bis 1540,” Zeitschrift für hebräische Bibliographie 21 (1916) 25-32
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z6367 .Z48
    Katz Center - Stacks Z6367 .Z48
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1606086.html

  • Friedman, Mira
    “Transplanted Illustrations in Jewish Printed Books,” [On the woodcuts used in the book "Mas’at Moshe" by Moses Alshekh] Jewish art 4 (1988) 44-55
    Katz Center – Stacks. N7415 .J68
    Fine Arts Library. N7415 .J68

  • Frojmovic, Eva
    “From Naples to Constantinople: the Aesop workshop's woodcuts in the oldest illustrated printed Haggadah,” The Library ser. 6, 18, no. 2 (1996) 87-109
    Van Pelt Library. Z671 .L69
    http://library.oxfordjournals.org/content/s6-XVIII/2/87.full.pdf

  • Goldschmidt, Lazarus
    The earliest illustrated Haggadah printed by Gershom Cohen at Prague discovered and described
    London:  Barmerlea Book Sales ltd, 1940
    Katz Center - Rare Book Room. BM675.P4 G6 1940

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir
    “An Unknown Leaf of the Haggadah, Constantinople?, 1515?,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 38 (1963) 273-75
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library Z6367 .K57

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir
    “The Jewish Art of the Printed Book,” pp. 163-74 + 8 pls. in, Jewish Art: An Illustrated History, Cecil Roth rev. ed. by Bezalel Narkiss (London, Vallentine, Mitchell, 1971)
    Katz Center - Reference Room. N7415 .R625 1971
    Research Annex (LIBRA).  N7415 .R625 1971

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir
    “Who Printed the Illustrated Haggadah (Constantinople? 1505?),” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 47 (1971) 159-61 + 8 pls.
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Heller, Marvin J.
    “Behold, You are Beautiful, My Love:  The Use of Ornamental Frames in Hebrew Incunabula,” Printing History n.s. 10.10 (2011) 39-55
    Van Pelt Library. Z124.A2 P755

  • Heyd, Milly
    “Illustrations in Early Editions of the Tsene-U'rene — Jewish Adaptations of Christian Sources,” Journal of Jewish Art 10 (1984) 64-86
    Katz Center – Stacks. N7415 .J68
    Fine Arts Library. N7415 .J68

  • Higgins, Dick
    “Hebrew,” pp. 54-57 in, Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature (Albany:  SUNY Press, 1987)
    Van Pelt Library. PN1455 .H54 1987

  • Glatstein, Jeremy
    The Watching Night: Print, Power and Jewish Vision in Early Modern Italy
    Los Angeles :  University of Southern California, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2013
    http://search.proquest.com/docview/1498563463?pq-origsite=summon

  • Hunt, Lynn Avery, Margaret C. Jacob and Wijnand W. Mijnhardt
    The Book that Changed Europe: Picart & Bernard's Religious Ceremonies of the World [especially pp. 169-93, chapter 7, “Familiarizing Judaism”]
    Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010
    Van Pelt Library. BL80.3 .H86 2010

  • Kalman, Ruthie
    “What is Venus Doing in the 1574-1575 Hebrew Edition of Maimonides Mishneh Torah?,” [Hebrew] Pe’amim 120 (2009) 61-91
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .P47
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .P47

  • Kaplan, Paul H.D.
    “Jewish Artists and Images of Black Africans in Renaissance Venice,” pp. 67-90 in, Multicultural Europe and cultural exchange in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout:  Brepols, 2005) ed. James P. Helfers
    Van Pelt Library.  HM1271 .M835 2005

  • Kogman-Appel, Katrin
    אמנות יהודית בין איסלם לנצרות : עיטור ספרי תנ״ך עבריים בספרד = Jewish art between Islam and Christianity
    Tel Aviv : ha-K?ibuts ha-me?uh?ad, 2001
    Katz Center - Stacks. N7415 .K65 2001
    Research Annex (LIBRA). N7415 .K65 2001

  • Kogman-Appel, Katrin
    Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain
    Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004
    Katz Center - Stacks. ND2935 .K6413 2004
    Fine Arts Library. ND2935 .K6413 2004

  • Kogman-Appel, Katrin
    “Picture Bibles and the Re-written Bible:  The Place of Moses dal Castellazzo in Early Modern Book History,” Ars Judaica - the Bar-Ilan journal of Jewish art 2 (2006) 35-52
    Katz Center – Stacks. N7415 .A76
    Research Annex (LIBRA). N7415 .A76

  • Marx, Alexander
    “Illustrated Haggadahs,” Jewish Quarterly Review n.s. 13 (1922) 513-19
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .J48
    http://www.jstor.org/journals/00216682.html

  • Mortaro-Ottolenghi, Luisa
    “Miniature ebraiche italiane,” pp. 211-227 in, Italia Judaica. Atti del  I convegno internazionale, Bari 18-22 maggio 1981 (Rome : Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali, 1983)
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.I8 I86 1983
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 I86 1983

  • Naményi, Ernest M.
    “The Illumination of Hebrew Manuscripts after the Inventing of Printing,” pp. 149-162 + 8 pls. in, Jewish Art: An Illustrated History (London, Vallentine, Mitchell, 1971) Cecil Roth rev. ed. by Bezalel Narkiss
    Katz Center - Reference Room. N7415 .R625 1971
    Research Annex (LIBRA).  N7415 .R625 1971

  • Naményi, Ernest M.
    “La miniature juive au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle,” Revue des études juives 116 (1957) 27-71
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .R45

  • Narkiss, Mordechai
    “The work of the Jewish painter and engraver Shalom Italia (1619-1655?),” [Hebrew] Tarbiz 25 (1955) 441-51 and 26 (1956) 87-101
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .T35
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .T35

  • Pagis, Dan
    “Carmma figuraia in pre-modern Hebrew poetry,” [Hebrew] Ha-Sifrut 25 (1977) 13-27
    Katz Center - Periodicals B1. PJ500l .S54
    Van Pelt Library. PJ500l .S54

  • Roth, Cecil
    “The Border of the Naples Bible of 1491/2,” The Bodleian Library Record, 4 (1953) 295-303
    Research Annex (LIBRA). Z792.O94 B6
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/01536631.html
    [repr. pp. 413- 21 in, Remember the days: essays on Anglo-Jewish history presented to Cecil Roth by members of the Council of the Jewish Historical Society of England (Jewish Historical Society of England, 1966) ed. John M. Shaftesley
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM42.R684 S434 1966]

  • Roth, Cecil
    “The art in the printed Hebrew book,” [Hebrew] cols. 411-48 in, האמנות היהודית = Jewish Art
    (Tel-Aviv : Masadah, 1959)
    Katz Center - Reference Folio. N7415 .O586 1959

  • Sabar, Shalom
    "From Amsterdam to Bombay, Baghdad, and Casablanca: The Influence of the Amsterdam Haggadah on Haggadah Illustration among the Jews in India and the Lands of Islam," pp. 279-300 and illustrations pp. 498-517 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

  • Sabar, Shalom
    “Messianic aspirations and Renaissance urban ideals:  the image of Jerusalem in the Venice Haggadah, 1609,” Jewish Art 23-24 (1997/8) 295-312
    Katz Center – Stacks. N7415 .J68
    Fine Arts Library. N7415 .J68

  • Schreiber, Alexander
    “New Pages from the First Printed, Illustrated Haggadah,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 7 (1965) 26-36
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PN6067 .S883L
    Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .S883
    http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=studbibliobook

  • Schreiber, Alexander
    “Who Printed the First Illustrated Haggadah?,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 57 (1981), 185-86, correct his Taylor-Schechter Additonal Series 197.249 to read 247
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Schubert, Kurt
    Bilder-Pentateuch von Moses dal Castellazzo. I.: Vollständige und originalgetreue Faksimile-Ausgabe des Bilder-Pentateuch von Moses dal Castellazzo, Venedig 1521, Codex 1164 aus dem Ju¨dischen Historischen Institut Warschau - II.: Wissenschaftlicher Kommentarband zum Bilderpentateuch, two volumes
    Wien : Bernthaler & Windischgraetz, 1983-1986
    Available at Columbia University or Harvard University, but does not circulate

  • Schubert, Ursula and Kurt Schubert
    Jüdische Buchkunst, two volumes
    Graz, Austria : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1983-1992
    Katz Center - Reference Room. ND2935 .S38 1983

  • Schubert, Ursula
    אמנות-הספר היהודית : מהרנסאנס עד הרוקוקו = Jewish Book Art : from the Renaissance to Rococo
    Tel Aviv : ha-K?ibuts ha-me?uh?ad, 1994
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z228.H4 S39146 1994

  • Schwarz, Karl
    “Buchkunst und Graphik,” pp. 93-100 in, Die Juden in der Kunst (Berlin :  Der Heine-Bund, 1928) ed. Karl Schwarz
    Katz Center - Stacks. N7415 .S3 1928
    Katz Center - Stacks. N7415 .S3 1936

  • Shmeruk, Chone
    “The Itinerary of an Illustration since 1593,” Jewish Art 8 (1981) 54-59
    Katz Center – Stacks. N7415 .J68
    Fine Arts Library. N7415 .J68

  • Shmeruk, Chone
    "The illustrations from Sefer Minhagim in Yiddish , Venice 353 / 1593 , in the reprint editions of 17th century Prague," [Hebrew]
    Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 15 (1984) 52-31
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PN6067 .S883L
    Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .S883
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/27943510?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

  • Shmeruk, Chone
    האיורים לספרי יידיש במאות הט"ז-הי"ז : הטקסטים, התמונות ונמעניהם  = The Illustrations in Yiddish Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries:  The Text, the Picture and their Audience
    Jerusalem :  Akademon Press, 1986
    Available at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York

  • Sonne, Isaiah
    “The Zodiac Theme in Ancient Synagogues and in Hebrew Printed Books,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 1 (1953) 3-13
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PN6067 .S883L
    Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .S883
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27943170.pdf?_=1461326838201

  • Tamani, Giuliano
    “Dall'amanuense al tipografo,” [Italian Hebrew incunable decoration] pp. 37-61 in, I tipografi ebrei a Soncino 1483—90, Atti del convegno. Soncino, 12 dicembre 1988 (Soncino, 1989) ed. Giuliano
    Tamani
    Available via BorrowDirect from Princeton University or Columbia University

  • Voit, Petr  
    "Ornamentation of Prague Hebrew Books during the first Half of the 16th Century as a Part of Bohemian Book Design," pp. 123-151 in, Hebrew Printing in Bohemia and Moravia. Academia  (Prague:  Jewish Museum in Prague, 2012)
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H43713 2012
    Fine Arts Library. Z228.H4 H43713 2012
    http://eprints.rclis.org/18144/1/Voit_Hebrew_Books_EN.pdf

  • Weil. Ernst
    “Venezianische Haggadahholzschnitte aus dem 15 Jahrhundert,” Soncino-Blätter 1 (1925/6) 45-46 + pl.
    Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z6367 .S69

  • Wischnitzer, Rachel
    “Von der Holbeinbibel zur Amsterdamer Haggadah,” pp. 29-48 in, From Dura to Rembrandt : studies in the history of art (Milwaukee, USA : Aldrich ; Vienna, Austria : IRSA ; Jerusalem, Israel :  Center for Jewish Art, 1990) ed. Rachel Wischnitzer [repr. of  Monatschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums 75 (1931) 269-286, 76 (1932) 239-242]
    Katz Center - Stacks. N7416 .W58 1990
    Fine Arts Library. N5303 .W57 1990
    Research Annex (LIBRA). N5303 .W57 1990

  • Wischnitzer, Rachel
    “Gleanings: The Zeena U-Reena and its Illustrations,” pp. 130-133 in, From Dura to Rembrandt:  studies in the history of art (Milwaukee, USA : Aldrich ; Vienna, Austria : IRSA ;Jerusalem, Israel : Center for Jewish Art, 1990) ed. Rachel Wischnitzer
    Katz Center - Stacks. N7416 .W58 1990
    Fine Arts Library. N5303 .W57 1990

  • Wolfthal, Diane
    Picturing Yiddish: Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy
    Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2004
    Katz Center - Stacks. NC982 .W65 2004
    Fine Arts Library. NC982 .W65 2004

  • Yaari, Avraham
    “Illustrations of Jerusalem and the Temple as decoration for Hebrew books,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 15 (1938/9) 377-82
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Yaari, Abraham
    ההגדות ביבליוגרפיה של הגדות פסח = Bibliography of the Passover Haggadah
    Jerusalem, 1960
    Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z6371.L5 Y18 1960
    Van Pelt Library. Z6371.L5 Y18
    Van Pelt - Judaica/Ancient Near East Resource Room (401). Oversize Z6371.L5 Y18 1960

  • Zlocisti, Theodor
    "Die Haggadah von Mantua (1560)," Ost und West 4 (1904) 266-282
    http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/cm/periodical/titleinfo/2590031

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