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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Ottoman Empire

  • Ben Naeh, Yaron  
    “Hebrew Printing Houses in the Ottoman Empire,” pp. 73-96 and 141-67 in, Jewish Journalism and Printing Houses in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2001) ed. Gad Nassi
    Katz Center - Stacks. PN5650 .N37 2001
    Van Pelt Library. PN5650 .N37 2001
    [repr. pp. 225-275 in, The History of the Book in the Middle East (Aldershot, UK:  Ashgate Publishing Group, 2013) ed. Geoffrey Roper
    Van Pelt Library. Z8.M63 H57 2013]

  • Cohen, Dov
    “Hebrew Printing in Izmir,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 64 (1992/3) 1403-1423
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • 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

  • Hacker, Joseph
    “Constantinople Prints in the 16th Century,” [Hebrew] Areshet 5 (1972) 457-93
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery.
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A74

  • Mehlman, Israel
    “The Hebrew Press at Adrianople,” [Hebrew] Alei Sefer 6-7 (1979) 102-06
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z228.H4 A57
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A57
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/24164280?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

  • Mehlman, Israel
    “Notes and Additions to A. Yaari’s Hebrew Printing in Constantinople,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 43 (1967/8) 571-81
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Mehlman,Yisrael
    “Hebrew Printing in Salonika," [Hebrew] pp. 73-89 in, גנוזות ספרים : מאמרים ביבליוגרפיים = Hidden books : bibliographic articles (Jerusalem: Jewish National and University Library Press, 1976)
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 M43

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    Mehlman, Yisrael
    “Chapters in the history of the Salonika printing press,” [Hebrew] Sefunot 13 (1976) 215-72
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS135.L4 S4
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.L4 S4

  • Meizlish, Isaac
    “Addenda to the Hebrew Printing in Constantinope and Riva di Trento,” [Hebrew] Alei Sefer 1 (1975) 95-99
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z228.H4 A57
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A57
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/24159753?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

  • Meral, Yasin
    “Istanbul'da Basilan Ilk Kitap: Leçons des Enfants (1488) ?,” [The first book printed in Istanbul: Leçons des Enfants (1488)] Mukaddime 5 (2014) 149-152
    [Referring to an anonymous “מקרי דרדקי  Mikre Dardeki, lectio pravulorum” found in Johann Christoph Wolf, Bibliotheca Hebraea (Hamburg  :  Theodor Christop. Felginer, 1721) II:1367]
    Available on line.
    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwi7lty9ofrLAhVKtYMKHQhECDUQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmukaddime.artuklu.edu.tr%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F5000105865%2F5000099025&usg=AFQjCNGCH53U_zJpr65DOI1p1g51d_suiw&cad=rja

  • Meral, Yasin
    “Osmanli Istanbulu’nda Yahudi Matbaasi ve Basilan Bazi Önemli Eserler,” [Printing Jews in Ottoman Istanbul and some Important Printed Works] pp. 455-469 in, Osmanli Istanbul II : Uluslararasi Osmanli Istanbulu Sempozyumu Bildirileri (Istanbul :  Istanbul 29 Mayis Üniversitesi Yayinlari ; Istanbul : Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi, 2014) ed. Feridun Emecen
    Available via BorrowDirect from Harvard University, Princeton University et al.
    http://osmanliistanbulu.org/tr/images/osmanliistanbulu-2/44_yasin-meral.pdf

  • Meral, Yasin
    “Edirne’de Ilk Yahudi Matbassi: 1554-1556,” [The First Hebrew Printing in Adrianopolis]
    Available on line via Google+, Facebook or Twitter.   https://www.academia.edu/19762825/Edirnede_%C4%B0lk_Yahudi_Matbaas%C4%B1_1554-1556_The_First_Hebrew_Printing_in_Adrianopolis_

  • Meral, Yasin
    “Osmanli Istanbul’unda Yahudi Matbaalari,” [Hebrew Printing in Ottoman Istanbul]
    Available on line via Google+, Facebook or Twitter.  https://www.academia.edu/10282066/Osmanl%C4%B1_%C4%B0stanbulunda_Yahudi_Matbaalar%C4%B1_Hebrew_Printing_in_Ottoman_Istanbul_

  • Nassi, Gad, ed.
    Jewish journalism and printing houses in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey
    Istanbul : Isis Press, 2001
    Katz Center - Stacks. PN5650 .N37 2001
    Van Pelt Library. PN5650 .N37 2001

  • Shapira, Dan D.Y.
    “Karaite printing in the Ottoman Empire,” pp. 1-12 in, Printing and publishing in the Middle East : papers from the second Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East  (Oxford : published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester, 2008) ed. Philip Sadgrove
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z464.S957 2005

  • Shapira, Dan D.Y.
    "Osmanli Imparatorlugu'nda Karay Matbaasi," [Karaites Printing in the Ottoman Empire] Toplumsal Tarih 156 (2006) 55-59
    Available at Columbia University, but does not circulate.

  • Simon, Rachel
    "The Contribution of Hebrew Printing Houses and Printers in Istanbul to Ladino Culture and Scholarship," Judaica Librarianship 16/17 (2011) 125-135
    Katz Center – Periodicals. B2 Z675.J4 A57
    Van Pelt Library. Z675.J4 A57
    http://ajlpublishing.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=jl

  • Strahil Gicev,
    “Les débuts de l'imprimerie juive dans les Balkans (1494-commencement du XVIe siècle,” III :785-787 in, Actes du premier Congrès International des Etudes balkaniques et Sud-Est Européennes, Sofia 26 août – 1 septembre, 1966 (Sofia :  Editions de l'Acade´mie Bulgare des Sciences, 1967-)
    Research Annex (LIBRA).  DR1 .C597 1966a

  • Tamari, Ittai Joseph
    “Jüdische Drucke aus Konstantinopel. Ein Druckort und seine Bedeutung,” pp. 118-127 in, Das gedruckte Buch im vorderen Orient, (Dortmund : Verlag für Orientkunde, 2002) ed. Ulrich Marzolph
    Van Pelt Library. Z186.M54 G44 2002

  • Yaari, Abraham
    הדפוס העברי בארצות המזרח = Hebrew printing in the East
    Jerusalem :  Hebrew University Press [1936-40]
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z185 .Y2 1936
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z185 .Y2 1936
    Van Pelt Library. Z185 .Y2

  • Yaari, Avraham
    “Hebrew printing at Izmir,” [Hebrew] Areshet 1 (1959) 97-222
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Periodiocal
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A74

  • Yaari, Abraham
    הדפוס העברי בקושטא תולדות הדפוס העברי בקושטא מראשיתו עד פרוץ מלחמת העולם השניה ורשימת הספרים שנדפסו בה = Hebrew printing at Constantinople.  Its history and bibliography.  Supplement to Kiryat Sefer, Vol. XLII Jerusalem : Hotsa?at sefarim ?al shem Y. L. Magnes, ha-Universit?ah ha-?Ivrit, 1967 Katz Center - Reference Room. Z178.C7 Y32 1967 Katz Center - Stacks. Z178.C7 Y32 1967 Van Pelt Library. Z178.C7 Y32 1967

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