The notion of an ‘author’ is, it might be argued, a relatively recent development. Investigators from various fields have attempted to describe the historical conditions underpinning its construction.
Beit-Arié, Malachi
“The Relationship between Early Hebrew Printing and Handwritten Books: Attachment or Detachment?,” Scripta Hierosolymitana XXIX (1989) 1-26.
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Campanini, Saverio
“On Abraham's Neck. The Editio Princeps of the Sefer Yetzirah (Mantua 1562) and Its context,” pp. 253 – 278 in, Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012) ed. Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto
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Chabás, José and Bernard R. Goldstein
"Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society," n.s. 90.2 (2000)
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Cohen-Skalli, Cedric
“Authorship in the Age of Early Jewish Print: Isaac Abravanel’s Ma‘aynei ha-Yeshu‘a and the First Printed Edition in Ferrara 1551,” pp. 185-201 in, Tradition, Heterodoxy and Religious Culture: Judaism and Christianity in the Early Modern Period (Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press, 2006) ed. Chanita Goodblatt and Howard Kreisel
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Cohen-Skalli, Cedric. “Yitshaq Abravanel’s First Edition (Constantinople 1505) Rhetorical Content and Editorial Background,” Hispania Judaica 5 (2007) 153-76
Cooperman, Bernard Dov
“Organizing knowledge for the Jewish market: an editor/printer in sixteenth-century Rome,” pp. 78-129 in, Perspectives on the Hebraic Book: The Myron M. Weinstein Memorial Lectures at the Library of Congress (Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 2012) ed. Peggy K. Pearlstein
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De Rossi, Giovanni Bernando; tr. by Marvin J. Heller.
Translation of Dizionario Storico Degli Autori Ebrei E Delle Loro Opere/Dictionary of Hebrew Authors. Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 1999
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Dweck, Yaacob
“Leon Modena's Ari Nohem Between Print and Manuscript,” pp. 50-57 in, Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History. EMW 2009: Reading across Cultures: The Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period
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Dweck, Yaacob
"Editing Safed: The Career of Isaac Gershon " Jewish Studies Quarterly, Volume 17, Special Issue: Jews in Ottoman Lands (2010) 44-55
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Hacker, Joseph R.
“Authors, Readers and Printers of Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Books in the Ottoman Empire,” pp. 16-63 in, Perspectives on the Hebraic Book: The Myron M. Weinstein Memorial Lectures at the Library of Congress (Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 2012) ed. Peggy K. Pearlstein
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Hacker, Joseph R.
“The intellectual activity of the Jews of the Ottoman Empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,” pp. 95-135 in, Jewish thought in the 17th century (Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1987) ed. Isadore Twersky and Bernard Septimus
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Idel, Moshe
“Printing Kabbalah in Sixteenth-Century Italy,” pp. 85-96 in, Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe : Essays in honor of David B. Ruderman (Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press; Cincinnati, OH : Hebrew Union College Press, 2014) ed. Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Adam Shear, and Elchanan Reiner
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Idel, Moshe
“From R. Isaac Sagi Nahor and R. Isaac Luria: From Hiding to Printing an Esoteric Lore,” Studia Judaica 21 (2014) 5- 40
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Maier, Johann
"Il 'Sefer Hasidim.' Il manoscritto parmense 3280 e l'edizione di Bologna, 1538 - osservazioni critiche," pp. 129-136 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) ed. Giuliano Tamani and Angelo Vivian
Okun, Yael
“The relations between manuscript and prints in the Library of Ish Ger [Abraham Joseph Solomon ben Mordecai Graziano],” [Hebrew] Asufot 10 (1997) 267-285
Perani, Mauro
"La Bibbia ebraica Soncino di Brescia del 1494. Un Esempio di continuita fra Manoscritto e Incunabolo," pp. 141-170 in, Gli ebrei a Castel Goffredo: con uno studio sulla Bibbia Soncino di Brescia del 1494 (Firenze : Casa Editrice Giuntina, 1998) ed. Mauro Perani
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Regev, Shaul
“The Study, Writing and Printing of Philosophical Books in the Sixteenth Century,” [Hebrew] Pe’amim 97 (2003) 81-105
Reiner, Elchanan
“The Ashkenazi Elite at the Beginning of the Modern Era - Manuscript Versus Printed Book,” Polin : Studies in Polish Jewry 10 (1997) 85-98
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Stow, Kenneth R.
“Writing in Hebrew, Thinking in Italian,” pp. 1-15 in, Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome: Challenge, Conversion, and Private Life (Aldershot, ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate,Variorum, 2007) ed. Kenneth R. Stow
https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14538795
Tamani, Giuliano
"Dal libro manoscitto al libro stampato," pp. 9-27 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
Timm, Erika
“Wie Elia Levita sein Bovobuch für den Druck über-arbeitete. Ein Kapitel aus der italo-jiddischen Literatur der Renaissancezeit,” Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 41 (1991) 61-81
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