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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Italy

  • Amram, David Werner
    The makers of Hebrew books in Italy : being chapters in the history of the Hebrew printing press
    Philadelphia : J. H. Greenstone, 1909
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z251.H4 A45 1909
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z251.H4 A45 1963
    Research Annex (LIBRA). Z251.H4 A45 1963
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1808112.html

  • Andreatta, Michela
    The Printing of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Prayer Books Printed for the Shomrim la-Boker Confraternities,” pp. 156-170 in, The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) edd. Joseph Hacker and Adam Shear
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H425 2011
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H425 2011
    http://site.ebrary.com/lib/upenn/detail.action?docID=10642680
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fj4fk

  • Benayahu, Meir
    הדפוס העברי בקרימונה : תולדות בית הדפוס של וינצינצו קונטי : הזיקוק ושריפת הספרים = Hebrew printing at Cremona; its history and bibliography
    Jerusalem : Mekhon Ben-Tsevi, 1971
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z156.L8 B4 1971
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z156.L8 B4 1971
    Van Pelt Library. Z156 .B44

  • Benayahu, Meir
    “On the Printing and Distributing of Books in Italy,” [Hebrew] Sinai 34 (1934) 156-202
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PERIODICAL

  • Benayahu, Meir
    “Turkish Imprints Actually printed in Italy,” [Hebrew] Sinai 72 (1973) 163-184
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery PERIODICAL
    Van Pelt - Judaica/Ancient Near East Resource Room (401). BM1 .S52

  • Bianchi, Isidoro
    Sulle tipografie Ebraiche di Cremona nel secolo XVI : col ragguaglio di un salterio Ebraico stampato in detta citta' nel secolo medisimo
    Cremona : Tipografia Feraboli, 1807
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z156.C7 B52 1807

  • Bloch, Joshua
    Hebrew printing in Riva di Trento
    New York : New York Public Library, 1933  
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z156.R58 B56 1933
    [repr. pp. 89-110 in, Hebrew Printing and Bibliography (New York, 1976)
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z228.H4 H43 1976]

  • Bloch, Joshua
    “A Hitherto Unrecorded Hebrew Publication from Riva di Trento,” Jewish Quarterly Review n.s. 26 (1935) 129-132
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .J48
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1452341.pdf?_=1460370659766

  • Bregoli, Francesca
    “Hebrew Printing and Communication Networks between Livorno and North Africa, 1740-1789,” Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, s.n.  (2007-2008) 51-59
    Katz Center - Stacks. LC3593.G7 O946

  • Bregoli, Francesca
    “Privilegi di stampa e acculturazione: editoria ebraica nella Livorno del '700,” Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts VI (2007) 67-78
    Katz Center – Stacks. DS101 .J337
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .J337

  • Calimani, Riccardo
    "Gli editori di libri ebraici a Venezia," pp. 55-62 in, Armeni, ebrei, greci stampatori a Venezia (Venice:  Casa editrice armena, 1989) ed. Scilla Abbiati
    Available via BorrowDirect from Harvard University

  • Carmoly, Eliakim
    Annalen der hebräischen typographie von Riva di Trento (1558-1562)
    Frankfurt am Main : G. Hess, 1868
    Katz Center - Stacks Box 1. Z228.H4 F73 1902
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924079823682;view=1up;seq=5

  • Fortis, Umberto
    Editoria in ebraico a Venezia: catalogo della mostra
    Venice:  Arsenale, 1991
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z156.V4 E4 1991

  • Frattarolo, Renzo
    Tipografi e librai, ebrei e non, nel Napoletano, alla fine del XV secolo
    Firenze, Sansoni, 1956.
    Research Annex (LIBRA Rare) - must be used in Rare Book Reading Room. 90B B473 no.22-32

  • Freimann, Aron
    "Die hebraischen Drucke in Rom im 16. Jahrhundert," pp. 53-67 in, Festschrift dr. Jakob Freimann zum 70. geburtstag (Berlin :   Viktoria gmbh, 1937)
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM40 .F8 1937

  • Fumagalli, Pier Francesco
    “Stampa, sequestri e commercio di libri ebraici nel Ducato di Milano,” Annali della Biblioteca Statale e Libreria Civica di Cremona 34 (1983) 67-80
    Van Pelt Library. Z933 .C73

  • Fumagalli, Pier Francesco
    Tipografia ebraica a Cremona 1556-1576: mostra bibliografica
    Roma: Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1985
    Available via BorrowDirect from Brown University and Harvard University

  • Heller, Marvin J.
    “A little-known chapter in Hebrew printing:  Francesco dalle Donne and the beginning of Hebrew printing in Verona in the sixteenth century,” The papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 94 (2000) 333-346
    Van Pelt Library. Z1008.B51P

  • Heller, Marvin J.
    “‘There Were in Padua Almost as Many Hebrew Printers as Hebrew Books’ : the Sixteenth Century Hebrew Press in Padua,” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 78 (2003) 86-92.
    Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .G98
    https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=PPN366382810_0078|log21

  • Heller, Marvin J.
    “Jedidiah ben Isaac Gabbai and the first decade of Hebrew printing in Livorno,” 165-77 in, Studies in the making of the early Hebrew Book (Leiden; Boston:  Brill, 2008) [repr. of  Los Muestros  33 (1998) 40–41, and 34 (1999) 28–30]
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H46 2008
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H46 2008

  • Heller, Marvin J.
    “Abraham ben Raphael Meldola and the resumption of printing in Livorno,” Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book
    [repr. of International Sephardic Journal 2 (2005) 83-94]
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H46 2008
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H46 2008

  • Ioly Zorattini, Pier Cesare
    “Iedidia Salomon Gabbai, It’s Printing Office to Livorno and other Jewish Printing Offices in Italy of the 1600s,” La Bibliofilia 111 (2009) 29-48
    Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .B56

  • Marx, Alexander
    "Ein verschollener Pergamentdruck Riva di Trento 1560 (Aus den Responsen des R. Moses Provenzale)," pp. 81-86 in, Festschrit für Aron Freimann zum 60. Geburtstage (Berlin : Die Gesellschaft, 1935) edd. Alexander Marx and Herrmann Meyer
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 .F4

  • Offenberg, Adri K.
    “The Chronology of Hebrew Printing at Mantua in the Fifteenth Century: A Re-examination,” The Library, sixth series, 16.4 (1994) 298-315
    Van Pelt Library. Z671 .L69

  • Pavoncello, Nello
    Le tipografie ebraiche minori a Venezia
    Rome :  s.n., 1990
    Available at Yeshiva University and University of Maryland

  • Pavoncello, Nello
    “La tipografia ebraica in Piemonte,” La Rassegna mensile di Israel 36 (1970) 96-100
    Katz Center - Periodicals B2. PERIODICAL
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41283202.pdf?_=1462368650440

  • Pavoncello, Nello
    “La tipografia ebraica nelle Marche,” La Rassegna Mensile di Israel 46 (1980) 49-60
    Katz Center - Periodicals B2. PERIODICAL
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41284715.pdf?_=1462372831237

  • Pavoncello, Nello
    La tipografia Ebraica in Firenze
    Rome :  s.n., 1992
    Available at Harvard University, but does not circulate.

  • Pieteli, Angelo
    “An Unknown Publication from Ferrara,” [Hebrew] Alei Sefer 18 (1996) 147-152
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z228.H4 A57
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A57
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/24158814?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

  • Roth, Cecil
    “The Marrano Press at Ferrara, 1552-1555,” The Modern Language Review 38 (1943) 307-317
    Van Pelt Library. PB1 .M65

  • Roth, Cecil
    “A Jewish Printer in Naples, 1477,” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 39 (1956) 188-199
    Katz Center - Periodicals B1. Z921 .M18B
    Van Pelt Library. Z921 .M18B

  • Rypins, Stanley
    “The Ferrara Bible at Press,” The Library 5. ser. 10 (1955) 244-269
    Van Pelt Library.  Z671 .L69
    http://library.oxfordjournals.org/content/s5-X/4/244.full.pdf+html
    cf. The Library 5. ser. 13 (1958) 128 “The Ferrara Bible:  An Addition to the Census”
    http://library.oxfordjournals.org/content/s5-XIII/2/128.full.pdf+html

  • Shear, Adam
    “Judah Moscato’s Sources and Hebrew Printing in the Sixteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey,” pp. 121-42 in, Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012) edd. Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto   
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM755.M59 R33 2012
    Van Pelt Library. BM755.M59 R33 2012

  • Sonne, Isaiah
    “R. Moshe b. Shushan and the Sabbionetta Printers” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 8 (1931) 513-519
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Sonnino, Guido
    “Storia della tipografia ebraica in Livorno con introduzione e catalogo di opere e di autori,” Il Vessillo Israelitico 59 (1911) 424-430, 506-11, 584- 88, 662-666; 60 (1912) 4-9, 138-40, 211-14, 282-83, 314-16, 458-61, 527-30, 562-64
    Katz Center – Special. DS133 .E49 1874

  • Tamani, Giuliano
    “Edizioni ebraiche veneziane dei secoli xvi – xvii,” pp. 29-36 in, La civiltà del libro e la stampa a Venezia.  Testi sacri ebraici, cristiani, islamici dal Quattrocento al Settecento. Catalogo della mostra (Padua:  Il Poligrafo, 2000) ed. Simonetta Pelusi
    Available through ILL

  • Tamani, Giuliano and Angelo Vivian, edd.
    Manoscritti, frammenti e libri ebraici nell'Italia dei secoli XV-XVI : Atti del VII congresso internazionale dell'AISG, S. Miniato, 7-8-9 novembre 1988
    Rome :  Carucci, 1991
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 M36 1991

  • Toaff, Ariel
    “Stampe rare della Biblioteca della Comunità Israelitica di Roma scampate al saccheggio nazista,” La Bibliofilia 80 (1978) 139-149
    Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .B56

  • Vivian, Angelo
    "Frammenti, manoscritti e stampe ebraiche di Pisa," pp. 215-226 in, Manoscritti, frammenti e libri ebraici nell'Italia dei secoli XV-XVI : Atti del VII congresso internazionale dell'AISG, S. Miniato, 7-8-9 novembre 1988 (Rome :  Carucci, 1991) edd. Giuliano Tamani and Angelo Vivian
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 M36 1991

  • Vogelman-Goldfield, Naomi
    “Some  Reflections on the Hebrew Printing in Italy During the Sixteenth Century,” pp. 99-113 in, Manoscritti, frammenti e libri ebraici nell'Italia dei secoli XV-XVI : atti del VII congresso internazionale dell'AISG S. Miniato, 7-8-9 novembre 1988 (Rome:  Carucci, 1991) edd. Giuliano Tamani and Angelo Vivian
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 M36 1991

  • Yudlov, Isaac
    “Hebrew Printing in 16th Century Mantova,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 49 (1973/4) 236-41 and 636-42
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Zunz, Leopold
    “Drucker und Drucke von Mantua (A. 1476 bis 1662),” pp. 249-261 in, Zur Geschichte und Literatur (Berlin : Veit und Comp., 1845)
    Katz Center - Stacks. PJ5008 .Z86 1845
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/3774270.html 

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