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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Eastern Europe

Balaban, Majer
“Zur Geschichte der hebräischen Druckereien in Polen,” Soncino-Blätter 3 (1929/1930) 1-50
Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z6367 .S69

Cohen, Y.Y.
“Hebrew Printing in Czernowitz,” [Hebrew] Areshet 3 (1961) 277-375; 4 (1966) 517.
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery.
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A74

Friedberg, Bernhard
    תולדות הדפוס העברי בפולניה = History of Hebrew typography in Poland Tel-Aviv, 1950
Katz Center - Reference Room. Z163 .F75 1950

Heller, Marvin J.
"On the Identity of the First Printers in Slavuta," Gutenberg Jahrbuch (2011) 269-281
https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=PPN366382810_0086|LOG_0030

Hill, Brad Sabin
Hebrew Printing in Ukraine.  <Includes> “A gazetteer of towns of Hebrew printing and publishing in Ukraine.”  [Catalogue of an exhibition held at the George Washington University, Gelman Library from November 2008 - May 2009]
Washington D.C.:  George Washington University, 2008
Available via BorrowDirect from Columbia University

Marx, Moses
"A Bibliography of Hebrew Printing in Dyhernfurth, 1689-1718," pp. 217-236 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

Migoń, Krzysztof, translated by Katarzyna Hussar
“The Jewish book in Silesia. A research reconnaissance,” original published in Polish, Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka, 1989, vol. 44, no. 1, p. 89-101
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=48&ved=0ahUKEwi24v3I_YTNAhVCXB4KHeelApU4KBAWCEkwBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsobotka.uni.wroc.pl%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fdownload-attachments%2Fincludes%2Fdownload.php%3Fid%3D4102&usg=AFQjCNHFaCKizoKv_bYtWFjo6ynCwoZ0Yg&cad=rja

Pilarczyk, Krzysztof
“Hebrew Printing Houses in Poland against the background of their history in the World:  an Outline with Refence Books on the Subject,” Studia Judaica 7.2 (2004) 201-221
Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.P6 S795

Pilarczyk, Krzysztof
Drukowana ksia?z?ka hebrajska a religia : vademecum bibliologiczne / opracowal
Krako´w : Wydawnictwo Antykwa, 2012
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 D78 2012

Pilarczyk, Krzysztof
“Hebrajska ksiazka drukowana w Europie srodkowowschodniej w XVI-XVIII wieku. Topografia, wielkosc produkcji i funkcja,” [The Hebrew book printed in Central - Eastern Europe in the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Topography, production size and function] Studia Judaica 10 (2007) 1-23
Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.P6 S795

Pilarczyk, Krzysztof
Leksykon drukarzy ksiag hebrajskich w Polsce: z bibliografia polono-judaików w jezykach zydowskich (XVI-XVIII wiek) [Lexicon of printers of Hebrew books in Poland : bibliography polono - Judaica in the Jewish languages ( XVI – XVIII centuries)]
Krako´w : Wydawn. Antykwa, 2004
Available via BorrowDirect from Yale University, Harvard University et al.

Schwab, Moïse
“Une Editione Rarissime du Talmud,” Revue des études juives 63 (1912) 300-303
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .R45
Van Pelt Library. DS101 .R45
Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951001360937p;view=1up;seq=319

Teter, Magda and Edward Fram
“Apostasy, Fraud, and the Beginnings of Hebrew Printing in Cracow,” AJS Review 30 (2006) 31-66
Katz Center – Periodicals Gallery.  Periodical
Van Pelt - Judaica/Ancient Near East Resource Room (401). DS101 .A59
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4131637

Wojakowski, Józef
“Jewish Printing in Old Poland (According to Polish Sources),” Revue Européenne des Études Hébraïques 4 (2000) 97-105
Van Pelt Library. DS101 .R46
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23492994.pdf?_=1465559167761