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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Early Printed Hebrew Maps

Ben-Arieh, Yehoshua and Naomi Elhassid
“Some notes on the maps of Jerusalem 1470-1600,” [Hebrew] pp. 121-151 in, פרקים בתולדות ירושלים : בראשית התקופה העותומנית       = Jerusalem in the early Ottoman period (Jerusalem :  Yad Yitshak Ben Tsevi, 1979) ed. Amnon Cohen
Van Pelt Library. DS109.92 .P47

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

Delano-Smith, Catherine and Mayer I. Gruber
“Rashi’s legacy:  Maps of the Holy Land,” Map Collector 59 (summer 1992) 30-35
Available at Princeton University, et al. but does not circulate

Garel, Michel
“La première carte de terre sainte en Hébreu,” Studia Rosenthaliana 21 (1987) 131–39
Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.N4 S8
Van Pelt Library. DS135.N4 S8
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41481598.pdf?_=1458847749195

Grossman, Avraham
“Marginal Notes and Addenda of R. Shemaiah and the Text of Rashi’s Biblical Commentary,” [Hebrew] Tarbits 60 (1990) 67-97
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery DS101 .T35
Van Pelt Library DS101 .T35
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23598908?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Laor, Eran and Shoshana Klein
Maps of the Holy Land:  cartobibliography of printed maps, 1475-1900
New York :  A.R. Liss; Amsterdam :  Meridian Pub. Co, 1986
Available via BorrowDirect from Princeton University or Dartmouth

Narkiss, Bezalel
“Rashi and his Maps,” [Hebrew] pp. 435-439 in,     ספר זאב וילנאי      = Zev Vilnay's jubilee volume (Jerusalem : Ariel, c1984-c1987) ed. Eli Schiller
Katz Center - Stacks. BM42.V556 S345 1984 vol. vi

Offenberg, Adri K.
“How Unique is Unique?,” Studia Rosenthaliana 22 (1988) 53-57
Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.N4 S8
Van Pelt Library. DS135.N4 S8
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41481659.pdf

Rubin, Rehav
“A Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Map from Mantua,” Imago Mundi 62 (2009) 30-45
Research Annex (LIBRA). GA1 .I6
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03085690903319259

Rubin, Rehav
“Sacred space and mythic time in the early printed maps of Jerusalem,” pp. 123-139 in, Jerusalem : idea and reality  (London ; New York : Routledge, 2008) edd. Tamar Mayer and Suleiman Ali Mourad
Van Pelt Library. DS109.95 .J476 2008

Rubin, Rehav
“The De-Angelis Map of Jeruslaem (1578) and its copies,” [Hebrew] Cathedra 52 (1989) 100-119
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PERIODICAL
Van Pelt Library. DS101 .K37
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23402145?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Rubin, Rehav
“Ideology and landscape in early printed maps of Jerusalem,” pp. 15-30 in, Ideology and the Landscape in Historical Perspective (Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press,  1992) edd.  A. R. H. Baker and G. Biger
Van Pelt Library. GF90 .I34 1992

Rubin, Rehav
ארץ ישראל במפה העברית מרש״י ועד ראשית המאה העשריםצורת הארץ      = Portraying the Land: Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the Early 20th Century
Jerusalem :  Yad Yitshak Ben Tsevi, 2014
Katz Center - Stacks.  In process
Van Pelt Library.  In process

Sabar, Shalom
“Messianic aspirations and renaissance urban ideals : the image of Jerusalem in the Venice Haggadah, 1609,” pp. 294-312, The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art; Studies in Honor of Bezalel Narkiss on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday = Journal of Jewish Art 23/24 (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, Center for Jewish Art, 1998) ed. Bianca Kühnel
Katz Center - Stacks. N7415 .J68 v.23/24
Katz Center - Stacks. N8214.5.J4 S23 1998
Fine Arts Library. N8214.5.I75 R4 1998

Silver, Larry
“Mapped and Marginalized:  Early Printed Images of Jerusalem,” pp. 313-324 in, The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art; Studies in Honor of Bezalel Narkiss on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday = Journal of Jewish Art 23/24 (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, Center for Jewish Art, 1998) ed. Bianca Kühnel
Katz Center - Stacks. N7415 .J68 v.23/24
Katz Center - Stacks. N8214.5.J4 S23 1998
Fine Arts Library. N8214.5.I75 R4 1998

Stern, David
“Mapping the Redemption: Messianic Cartography in the 1695 Amsterdam Haggadah,” Studia Rosenthaliana 42/43 (2010-2011) 43-63
Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.N4 S8
Van Pelt Library. DS135.N4 S8
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24388992.pdf

Tishby, Ariel
“Hebrew Maps,” pp. 116-127 in, Holy Land in Maps (Jerusalem :  Israel Museum, 2001) ed. Ariel Tishby
Katz Center - Stacks. G2235 .H65 2001
Van Pelt Library. G2235 .H65 2001
University Museum Library. G2235 .H65 2001

Vilnay, Zev
המפה העברית של ארץ ישראל : מחקר בתולדות הכרטוגרפיה העברית       = Hebrew maps of the Holy Land; a research in Hebrew cartography
Jerusalem :  Ah’ever,1968
Katz Center - Stacks Folio. GA1321 .V5 1944
Katz Center - Stacks Folio. GA1321 .V5 1968

Wajntraub, Eva and Gimpel Wajntraub
Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land
Wien: Brüder Hollinek, 1992
Available via BorrowDirect from Harvard University, Princeton University, et al.

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