History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book: Introduction and Table of Contents
Introduction
I bought this book in August 1778...it was printed 181 years ago!
Table of Contents
Table of Contents:
Introduction and Table of Contents
Introductory Texts in Hebrew Bibliography
Finances and Business Practices
Illumination, Illustration, Decoration
Early Hebrew Printing Houses by Region: Italy, Ottoman Empire, Northern Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, N. Africa, UK, France, India
Specific Early Printers of Hebrew Books
Printing the Hebrew Bible and the Talmu
Printing Specific Texts
Non-Hebrew Printing (Yiddish, Ladino, Spanish, et.c0
Christian Study of Hebrew
Circulation of Jewish Books
Censorship
Important Collections Today
Important Historic Collections
Periodicals Dealing with Hebrew Printing
Exhibition Catalogs
Additional Online Resources
Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies
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Introduction
We present several topics relevant specifically to the study of the early printed Hebrew book from its beginning around the year 1470 through the seventeenth-century. To learn more about early printing in general, please refer to the following existing libguides:
http://lib.guides.umd.edu/historybook
https://warburg.libguides.com/book-history
https://libguides.lib.msu.edu/bookhistory
Sarah Werner's Studying Early Printed Books (the book and the website) is an excellent resource on bookmaking in the early modern period.
For Jewish books, the Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures is continuously updated, and has extensive entries and bibliographies.
In this guide, you will find a bibliography arranged alphabetically by author, topic, and links or references to the availability of the materials in the Columbia University Libraries system, online, or from other academic libraries. In all cases, if an article or chapter of a book is in Hebrew, we give the English translation followed by [Hebrew] to indicate its language.
Please note that whereas the links to the CLIO online catalog will work everywhere, there are to caveats to the links to online resources: some of the links to articles are limited to computers operating on the Columbia network; and further, some of the links are accessible only to individuals with a CUID.
NOTE: In some cases, books have been separated by digital and physical versions - the format of the scholarship in no way indicates its importance. On the contrary, some of the most important critical scholarship appears in book reviews, exhibition catalogs, and other, almost ephemeral publications. As always, if you have trouble finding any publication, contact the Jewish Studies Librarian for assistance.
This guide was copied - with permission - from a similar guide created by Bruce Neilsen at the University of Pennsylvania. It is currently in transition from the Penn Guide - references to Van Pelt or Franklin should be replaced with Butler or CLIO. We access most of the same databases, so Columbia students should be able to access items referenced in the Penn Guide via CLIO.