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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Specific Early Printers of Hebrew Books

  •  Similar to looking at printing establishments in specific geographical areas there are a number of specific printers who have been subject to significant reasearch and historical study.  Prominent among them are the Soncino family in Italy and the Ottoman Empire, Daniel Bomberg in Venice, Christopher Plantin in Antwerp (see above, in the section on production and circulaiton) and Joseph Athias in Amsterdam.

  • Arnheim, Arthur and Ulf Haxen
    “Moses Hagiz og det hebraiske bogtrykkeri i Wandsbeck,” Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 38 (1999) 119-133
    Van Pelt Library. Z941 .C68
    Research Annex (LIBRA).  Z941 .C68
    https://tidsskrift.dk/index.php/fundogforskning/article/view/1363/2206

  • Bamberger, S
    “Wandsbecker Druckperiode des Israel ben Abraham 1726-1733,” pp. 101-108  in, Festschrift für Aron Freimann zum 60. Geburtstage (Berlin : Die Gesellschaft, 1935) edd. Alexander Marx and Hermann Meyer
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 .F4

  • Benayahu, Meir
    “The Books Printed in Venice at the Zanetti Press,” [Hebrew] Asufot 12 (1999) 9-163
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. BM1 .A79
    Van Pelt Library. BM1 .A79

  • Busi, Giulio
    “Gershom Soncino a Venezia : cronaca di una disillusione,” pp. 13-27 in, L'attività editoriale di Gershom Soncino 1502-1527. Atti del convegno Soncino, 17 settembre 1995 (Soncino (Cremona) : Edizioni dei Soncino, c1997) ed. by Giuliano Tamani
    Van Pelt Library. Z232.S69 A88 1997

  • De Haas, J.J.M., A.K. Offenberg and M.G. Ootjers, edd.
    Menasseh ben Israel [electronic resource]:  a digital collection of seventeenth-century Jewish printing in Amsterdam
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c1999.
    Katz Center - CD-ROM. Z232.M243 M46 1999
    Research Annex (LIBRA). Z232.M243 M46 1999

  • Freimann, Aaron
    “Daniel Bomberg’s Bücher-Verzeichnis,” Zeitschrift für Hebräische Bibliographie 10 (1906) 38-42
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z6367 .Z48
    Katz Center – Stacks. Z6367 .Z48
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011392019;view=1up;seq=50

  • Freimann, Aron
    "Die Familie Soncino," Soncino-Blätter 1 (1925/26)  9-12
    Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z6367 .S69

  • Freimann, Aron
    “Die Soncinaten- Drucke in Salonichi und Constantinople (1526-1547),” Zeitschrift für Hebräische Bibliographie 9 (1905) 21-25
    Katz Center – Reference Room. Z6367 .Z48
    Katz Center – Stacks. Z6367 .Z48
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c042829132;view=1up;seq=4

  • Fuks-Mansfeld, Renate G.
    Abraham Hayim ben Zvi Hirsh Braatbard A Hebrew type-setter in Amsterdam in the first half of the eighteenth century
    Zutot 1 (2001) 133-137
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS101 .Z886
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .Z886
    http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/187502101788691196

  • Fuks, Leo and Renate
    "Menasseh Ben Israel as a bookseller in the light of new data," Quaerendo 11 (1981) 34-45
    Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .Q13
    http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157006981x00049

  • Fuks, Leo and Renate Fuks
    “The Hebrew Production of Plantin-Raphelengius Presses in Leyden 1585-1615,” Studia Rosenthaliana 1 (1970) 1-24
    Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.N4 S8
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.N4 S8
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41481359.pdf?_=1464606462461

  • Gatch, Milton McCormick and Bruce E. Nielsen
    “The Wittenberg Copy of the Bomberg Talmud,” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (2003) 296–320
    Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .G98
    https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=PPN366382810_0078|log42

  • Gnirrep, Kees and Adri Offfenberg
    "Menasseh ben Israel as a Supplier of Books to the Municipal Library in Amsterdam in 1635 and 1639," Quaerendo 42 (2012) 293-307
    Van Pelt Library Z1007 .Q13
    http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700690-12341245

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir
    “The Amsterdam Printer Joseph Athias, the inventor of the stereotype,” [Hebrew] pp. 293-310 in, פרקים בתולדות המדפסים העברים ועניני ספרים = Studies in the history of Hebrew printers and books (Jerusalem : R. Mas, 738, 1978)
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H19 1978
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z228.H4 H19 1978
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H19

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir
    “The Press of Paul Fagius and the Books of His Print Shop,” [Hebrew] pp. 149-166 in, פרקים בתולדות המדפסים העברים ועניני ספרים   = Studies in the history of Hebrew printers and books (Jerusalem : R. Mas, 738, 1978)
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H19 1978
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z228.H4 H19 1978
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H19

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir
    (1564-1610) המדפיס זואן די גארה ורשימת ספרי בית דפוסו, שכ"ד-ש"ע = Giovanni di Gara:  Printer, Venice 1564-1610
    Jerusalem, 1982
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z232.D57 H32 1982
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z232.D57 H32 1982
    Van Pelt Library. Z232.D5 H32 1982

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir
    המדפיסים בני שונצינו : תולדותיהם ורשימת הספרים העברים שנדפסו על ידיהם = The Printers sons of Soncino:  their history and list of books printed in Hebrew by their press
    Vienna : Be-hotsa?at bet mish?ar sefarim shel Dav?id Frenk?il, 693 [1933]
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z232.S66 H32 1933

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir
    “The Parenzo Printers in Venice,” [Hebrew] Areshet 1 (1958) 61-90
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Periodical
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A74

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir
    המדפיס דניאל בומבירגי ורשימת ספרי בית דפוסו = The Printer Daniel Bomberg and the list of books published by his press
    Tsefat : ha-Muse?on le-?omanut ha-defus, 1978
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z232.B68 H33 1978
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z232.B68 H33 1978

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir
    המדפיס קורנילייו אדיל קינד ובנו דניאל ורשימת הספרים שנדפסו על ידיהם = Printer Cornelio Adel Kind, his son Daniel, and a list of books printed by them
    Jerusalem : R. Mas, 1980
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z232.A35 H33 1980
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z232.A35 H33 1980
    Van Pelt Library. Z232.A17 H3

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir
    “The Sons of Hayim Halicz: A Family of Hebrew Printers,”  [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 33 (1957/58), 509-520
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57
       [repr. pp. 131-146 in his, פרקים בתולדות המדפסים העברים ועניני ספרים [Studies in the History of Hebrew Printers and Books (Jerusalem, 1978)
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H19 1978
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z228.H4 H19 1978
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H19 ]

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir
    “The Printer Hayim Shachor, his son Isaac and his son-in-law Yosef ben Yakor, and matters of books,” [Hebrew] pp. 103-130 in his, פרקים בתולדות המדפסים העברים ועניני ספרים = Studies in the history of Hebrew printers and books (Jerusalem : R. Mas, 738, 1978)
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H19 1978
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z228.H4 H19 1978
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H19

  • Heller, Marvin J.
    “Israel ben Abraham, His Hebrew Printing-Press in Wandsbeck, and the Books He Published,” pp. 169–193 in, Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
    Katz Center – Stacks. Z228.H4 H442 2013
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H442 2013

  • Heller, Marvin J.
    “Moses ben Abraham Avinu and his printing-presses,” pp. 218-228 in, Studies in the making of the early Hebrew Book (Leiden; Boston:  Brill, 2008)
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H46 2008
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H46 2008

  • Heller, Marvin J.
    “The printer's mark of Marco Antonio Giustiniani and the printing house that used it,” pp. 44-53 in, Studies in the making of the early Hebrew Book (Leiden; Boston:  Brill, 2008)
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H46 2008
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H46 2008

  • Hilgert, Earle
    “Johann Froben and the Basel University Scholars, 1513-1523,” The Library Quarterly 41.2 (1971) 141-169
    Van Pelt Library. Z671 .L713
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4306069.pdf?_=1463770328147

  • Hirsch, Jacob
    “Daniel Bomberg and his Project:  A Reappraisal,” [Hebrew] Yad la-kore 18 (1979) 105-08
    Katz Center – Periodicals B2.  Z3476.Y335

  • Huss, Boaz
    “The Text and Context of the 1684 Sulzbach Edition of the Zohar,” pp. 117-138 in, Tradition, Heterodoxy, and Religious Culture (Beer-Sheva : Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, c2006) edd. Chanita Goodblatt and Howard T. Kreisel
    Van Pelt Library. BM535 .T72 2006
    http://hsf.bgu.ac.il/cjt/files/library%20files/tradition/Boaz%20Huss.pdf

  • Huss, Boaz
    Translation of the preceding, “Text und Context des Sulzbacher Zohar,” Morgen-Glantz, Zeitschrift der Christian Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft 16 (2006) 135-159
    Available via InterLibrary Loan electronic document delivery

  • Jelínková, Andrea
    “Nipas ba-Ir ha-Mehulala Brin.  The first years of the Brno Hebrew Printing House and a Bibliography of Printed Books from 1754-1760,” Judaica Bohemiae 50.2 (2015) 91-107
    Katz Center - Periodicals B1. DS135.C95 J82

  • Kalman, Ruthie
    מלאכת הספר בדפוס בומבירג בוינציאה, במחצית הראשונה של המאה ה-16 = The Books’ Craft of Daniel Bomberg’s Press in Venice in the First Half of the 16th Century
    MA Thesis, Jerusalem, Hebrew University School of Library and Archive Studies, 1992
    Available via BorrowDirect from Harvard

  • Künast, Hans-Jörg
    “Chajjim Schwarz und Paulus Aemilius - Jüdisch-hebräischer Buchdruck in Augsburg (1533 - 1544),” pp. 157-171 in, Fördern und Bewahren. Studien zur europäischen Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit : Festschrift anlässlich des zehnjährigen Bestehens der Dr. Günther Findel-Stiftung zur Föderung der Wissenschaften (Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1996) ed. Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer
    Van Pelt Library. DD176.8 .F67 1996

  • Kuntz, Marion Leathers
    “Marcantonio Giustiniani Venetian patrician and printer of Hebrew books and his gift to Guillaume Postel: Quid pro quo?,”  Studi veneziani, XVII (1989) 51-63
    Van Pelt Library. DG670 .S882
    Research Annex (LIBRA). DG670 .S882

  • Loifer, Yaakov
    משונצנו ועד וילנא : סיפורו המרתק של דף הגמרא המודפס = From Soncino to Vilna : the fascinating story of the printed Talmud page
    Jerusalem : ha-Modi?a, 2012
    Van Pelt Library. Z6371.T2 L6 2012

  • Manzoni, Giacomo
    Annali tipografici dei Soncino: contenenti la descrizione e illustrazione delle stampe ebraiche, talmudiche, rabbiniche, greche, latine ed italiane eseguite dai medesimi ... Tom. II. Tom. III. Tom. IV
    Farnborough, Gregg, 1969 [repr. 1st ed., Bologna, presso Gaetano Romagnoli, 1883-1886]
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z232.S66 M36
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z232.S66 M36 1980z
    Van Pelt Library. Z232.S69 M2 1969

  • Marx, Moses
    "Gershom (Hieronymus) Soncino's Wander-Years in Italy, 1498-1527," HUCA 11 (1936) 427-501
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. BM11 .H4
    Van Pelt - Judaica/Ancient Near East Resource Room (401). BM11 .H4

  • Marx, Moses
    "Gershom Soncino:  Contributions to the History of his Life and Printing," pp. i-x in, ספר היובל לכבוד אלכסנדר מארכס  A Tribute to Professor Alexander Marx (New York :  Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1943) ed. David Fränkel
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM42.M379 F736 1943

  • Mehlman, Yisrael
    “The Printing House of Daniel Bomberg in Venice,” [Hebrew] pp. 13-42 in, גנוזות ספרים : מאמרים ביבליוגרפיים = Hidden books : bibliographic articles (Jerusalem:  Jewish National and University Library, 1976)
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 M43

  • Melzer, Zwi
    Gerschom Soncino (1465-1534) : ein jüdischer Drucker zur Zeit der Renaissance
    Stuttgart : Fachhochschule für Druck, 1982
    Van Pelt Library. Z232.S69 M44 1982a

  • Nielsen, Bruce E.
    “Daniel van Bombergen, A Bookman of Two Worlds,” pp. 56-75 and 230-252 in, The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) edd. Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H425 2011
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H425 2011
    http://site.ebrary.com/lib/upenn/docDetail.action?docID=10642680
    http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780812205091

  • Nosek, Bedřich
    “Katalog mit einer Auswahl hebräischer Drucke Prager Provenienz. I. Teil:  Drucke der Gersoniden im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert,” Judaica Bohemiae 10.1 (1977) 13-41
    Katz Center - Periodicals B1. DS135.C95 J82

  • Nuovo, Angela   
    “La parte volgare del catalogo di Gershom Soncino,” pp. 59-93  in, L'attività editoriale di Gershom Soncino 1502-1527. Atti del convegno (Soncino, 17 settembre 1995), ed. Giuliano Tamani,
    (Soncino (Cremona) : Edizioni dei Soncino, c1997)  
    Van Pelt Library. Z232.S69 A88 1997

  • Offenberg, Adri K.
    “Peregrine printers,” Studia Rosenthaliana 35. 2 (2001) 157-171
    Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.N4 S8
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.N4 S8
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/41482451?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

  • Offenberg, Adri K.
    “The Hidden Treasure of Athias,” Quaerendo 37.2 (2007) 96 – 110
    Van Pelt Library Z1007 .Q13
    http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157006907x174247

  • Offenberg, Adri K.
    Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657), A Biographical Sketch
    Amsterdam :  Menasseh ben Israel Instituut, 2011
    Van Pelt Library. BM755.M25 O44 2011

  • Pallman, Heinrich
    "Ambrosius Froben von Basel als Drucker des Talmud," Archiv für Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels 7 (1882) 44-61
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924106306362;view=1up;seq=56

  • Piattelli, Mordechai Angelo
    “More about the Printer Zuan di Gara,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 63 (1990-1991) 675-678
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Post, Rudolf and Jutta Schumacher
    "Der jüdische Drucker Israel Sifroni in Freiburg i.B, 1583-1585," Schau-ins-Land. Jahresheft des Breisgau-Geschichtsvereins Schauinsland 125 (2006) 63–72
    http://dl.ub.uni-freiburg.de/diglit/schauinsland2006/0063/

  • Rosenfeld, Moshe
    Zebi Hirsch ben Chaim aus Fürth – Autor und Buchdrucker; ein Beitrag zum 300 jährigen Fürther jüdischen Buchdruck,“ pp. 34-40 in, Nachrichten für den jüdischen Bürger Fürths (1991)
    Available as a scan from Yale University, Harvard University et al.

  • Roth, Cecil
    A Life of Menasseh ben Israel, Rabbi, Printer and Diplomat
    Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1934
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM755.M25 R6 1934
    Van Pelt Library. BM755.M25 R6

  • Sacchi, Federico
    I Tipografi Ebrei de Soncino I (Cremona :  Ronzi e Signori, 1877)
    Library at the Katz Center - Reference Room. Z232.S69 S2 1877
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158005752794

  • Sandal, Ennio
    Gershom, Girolamo, Hieronymus, le edizioni del Soncino nelle città adriatiche 1502-1527
    Soncino (Cremona) : Edizioni dei Soncino, 2001
    Van Pelt Library. Z232.S69 G478 2001

  • Schmelzer, Menahem
    "Rashi's Commentary on the Pentateuch and on the Five Scrolls, Venice, Bomberg, 1538," pp. 425-433 in, Studies in Jewish bibliography, history and literature in honor of I. Edward Kiev (New York : Ktav Publishing House, 1971) ed. Charles Berlin
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM42 .K537 1971
    Van Pelt Library. BM42 .K537

  • Sidorko, Clemens P.
    "Eliezer Ben Naphtali Herz Treves als Pionier des jüdischen Buchdrucks in Zürich, Tiengen und Basel um 1560," Aschkenas 17 (2010) 457–472
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS101 .A574
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .A574

  • Soave, Moses
    Dei Soncino, Celebri Tipografi Italiani nei secoli XV XVI (Venice : Longo, 1878)
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100155434

  • Spiegel, Jacob
    "Regarding the Bragadin and Justinian Editions of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah," [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 47 (1972)493-501
    Katz Center – Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Staehelin, Ernst
    "Des Basler Buchdruckers Ambrosius Froben Talmudausgabe und Handel mit Rom," Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 30 (1931)
    Van Pelt Library. DQ361 .H44
    http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=bzg-002:1931:30::13

  • Tamani, Giuliano
    L'attivita` editoriale di Gershom Soncino, 1502-1527 : atti del convegno : Soncino, 17 settembre 1995
    Soncino (Cremona) : Edizioni dei Soncino, c1997
    Van Pelt Library. Z232.S69 A88 1997

  • Tamani, Giuliano
    La tipografia de Jacob Marcaria : 1557-1563
    Trento : Provincia autonoma di Trento, Servizio Beni culturali, Ufficio Beni librari e archivistici ; Riva del Garda : Comune di Riva del Garda, Biblioteca Civica, 1991
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z232.M35 C7 1991

  • Tamani, Giuliano
    “Gershom Soncino/Hieronymus Soncino,” pp. 1-7 in, L'attività editoriale di Gershom Soncino 1502-1527. Atti del convegno Soncino, 17 settembre 1995 (Soncino (Cremona) : Edizioni dei Soncino, c1997) ed. by Giuliano Tamani
    Van Pelt Library. Z232.S69 A88 1997

  • Vodsedálková, Martina
    “Drei hebräische Drucke gersonidischer Herkunft,” Judaica Bohemiae 23.2 (1987) 92-94
    Katz Center - Periodicals B1. DS135.C95 J82

  • Voet, Leon
    The Golden Compasses: A History and Evaluation of the Officina Plantiniana at Antwerp. I: Christopher Plantin and the Moretuses: Their Lives and Their World, two volumes
    Amsterdam, Van Gendt ; New York, Abner Schram, [1969-c1972]
    Van Pelt Library Z232.P71 V6
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Rare Book Collection. Z232.P71 V6

  • Voet, Leon and Jenny Voet-Grisolle
    The Plantin Press at Antwerp (1555-1589). A bibliography of the works printed and published by Christopher Plantin, I-III: A-L
    Amsterdam : Van Hoeve, c1980-c1983
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Reference Collection. Z232.P71 V63 1980

  • 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, Abraham
    “The Original Catalogue of the Printing House of Menasseh Ben-Israel in Amsterdam,” [Hebrew]  Kiryat Sefer 21 (1944-1945) 192-201
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Zafren, Herbert C.
    "Dyhernfurth and Shabtai Bass: A Typographic Profile," pp. 543-580 in, Studies in Jewish bibliography, history and literature in honor of I. Edward Kiev (New York : Ktav Publishing House, 1971) ed. Charles Berlin
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM42 .K537 1971
    Van Pelt Library. BM42 .K537

  • Zafren, Herbert C.
    "More on Dyhernfurth," Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 10 (1971/72) 62-68
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PN6067 .S883L
    Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .S883
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27943440.pdf?acceptTC=true

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