History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book: Jewish Women and the Book

Akrap, Domagoi
“‘Viele Töchter hatten Erfolg.’ – Frauen im Jüdischen Buchwesen, ” 134-44 in, ? Beste aller Frauen: weibliche Dimensionen im Judentum (Wien:  Jüdisches Mus. d. Stadt Wien, 2007) edd. Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz, Wiebke Krohn and Domagoi Akrap.   
Van Pelt Library. HQ1172 .B47 2007

Breger, Jennifer
“The Role of Women in Hebrew Printing,” Antiquarian Bookman 91 (March 29, 1993) 1320-1329
Research Annex (LIBRA Special) - must be used in Rare Book Reading Room. Z999.A01 A5

Breger, Jennifer
Online contribution to the Jewish Women’s Archive
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/printers

Breger, Jennifer
“Books printed by Jewish women,” [199-?]
Photocopy of 13 unnumbered leaves typescript, held at the British Library; it is possible to order a pdf.

Galante, Abraham
Esther Kyra d'apres de nouveaux documents : contribution à l'histoire des Juifs de Turquie
Constantinople : Socie´te´ anonyme de papeterie et d'imprimerie (Fr. Hai¨m), 1926
Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.T83 K9631 1926

Haberman, A.M.
“Jewish Women as Printers, Typesetters, Publishers and Book Patrons of Writers,” [Hebrew] (Berlin:  Rubin Mas, 1933)
HebrewBooks.org = http://hebrewbooks.org/36857

Hill, Brad Sabin
“Index of women printers,” vol. 1, lxxxviii in volume one; “Index of typresetters,” vol. 1, xci-xcvi (lists only three women typesetters (Rebecca and Reichel Jüls, Bela Schlenker), Catalogue of Hebrew printers (ca. 1500-ca. 1900) : as represented in the holdings of the British Museum (now British Library) : reproduced from the unpublished manuscript held in the Hebrew Section, Oriental and India Office Collections, three volumes
London : British Library, 1995
Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z231 .B75 1995a

Karp, Abraham J.
“Let Her Works Praise Her,” pp. 167-180 in, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (Washington D.C.: Library of Congress,1991) ed. Abraham J. Karp
Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z6375 .K37 1991
Katz Center - Stacks. Z6375 .K37 1991

Kayserling, Meyer
“Setzerinnen und Druckerinnen,” pp. 146-149 in, Die jüdischen Frauen in der Geschichte, Literatur und Kunst (Leipzig :  F. A. Brockhaus, 1879)
Katz Center - Stacks. BS1199.W7 K39 1879

Mitrani-Samarian, Salomon
“Un typographe juif en Espagne avant 1482,” Revue des études juives 54 (1907) 246-49
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .R45
Van Pelt Library. DS101 .R45

Mordtmann, J.H.
“Die jüdischen Kira im Serai der Sultane,” Westasiatische Studien = Mitteilungen des Seminars für orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin 32 (1929) 1-38
Van Pelt Library. PJ25 .B5

Spiegel, Gideon
“The Jewess from Constantinople: The Story of Esther Kira (1539 - 1592),” [Hebrew] Mahut 20 (1998) 55-79
Katz Center - Periodicals B1.  PJ5001.Z44
Van Pelt Library. PJ5001 .Z44

Steinschneider, Moritz
“Die judischen Frauen und die judische Literatur: Druckerinnen und Setzerinnen,” Hebraische Bibliographie 1 (1858) 66–68 and 2 (1859) 33–35
Available via HathiTrust Digital Library http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000046137  

Yaari, Avraham
“The Printing House of Rabbanit Judith Rosanes in Lvov,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 17 (1940) 95-108
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

Yaari, Avraham
“Women in the Holy Endeavor (of Printing),” [Hebrew] pp. 256-302 in, מחקרי ספר ; פרקים בתולדות הספר העברי = Studies in Hebrew booklore (Jerusalem: 1958)
Katz Center - Reference Room. Z228.H4 Y12 1958

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Adelman, Howard
“The Educations and Literary Activities of Jewish Women in Italy During the Renaissance and the Catholic Restoration,” [Hebrew] pp. 9-23 in, ספר יובל לשלמה סימונסון = Shlomo Simonsohn Jubilee Volume (Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University Press, 1993) edd. Daniel Carpi et al.
Katz Center - Stacks. BM42 .S566 1993
Van Pelt Library. BM42 .S56 1993

Adelman, Howard
“Finding Women’s Voices in Italian Jewish Literature,” pp. 50-69 in, Women of the Word:  Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 1994) ed. Judith Baskin
Katz Center - Stacks. PN842 .W66 1994

Baskin, Judith
“‘May the Writer Be Strong’:  Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Copied by and for Women,” Nashim 16 (2008) 9-28
Van Pelt Library. HQ1172 .N37
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nashim/

Baskin, Judith
“Some Parallels in the Education of Medieval Jewish and Christian Women,” Jewish History 5 (1991) 41-51
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .J46556
Van Pelt Library. DS101 .J46556
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20101094.pdf?acceptTC=true

Bell, Susan G.
“Women Medieval Book Owners:  Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture,” pp. 149-61 in,
Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1988) ed. Mary C. Erler
Van Pelt Library. HQ1143 .W63 1988
[repr. pp. 135-161 from, repr. from Signs:  Journal of Women in Culture and Society 7(1982) 742-768 
Van Pelt Library.  HQ1101 .S5 ]

Boffey, Julia
“Women Authors and Women's Literacy in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England,” pp. 159-82 in, Women and Literature in Britian, 1150-1500 (Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993) ed. Carol C. Meale
Van Pelt Library. PR113 .W64 1993

Cohen, Evelyn M.
“Women’s Illuminated Hebrew Prayer Books in Renaissance Italy,” pp. 305-312 in, Donne nella storia degli ebrei d’Italia:  Atti del IX Convegno internazionale “Italia Judaica” Lucca, 6-9 Giugno 2005 (Florence:  Giuntina, 2007) edd. Michele Luzzati and Cristina Galasso
Katz Center - Stacks. HQ1172 .C66 2005
Van Pelt Library. HQ1172 .C66 2005

Fram, Edward
My Dear Daughter:  Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland
[Slonik's, Seder mitzvot nashim (Cracow :  Regra de Coisas Boas para Donas, 1577)]
Cincinnati:  Hebrew Union College Press, 2007
Katz Center - Stacks. BM729.W6 F72 2007
Van Pelt - Rosengarten Reserve. BM729.W6 F72 2007

Green, Monica H.
“Books as a Source of Medical Education for Women in the Middle Ages,” DYNAMIS. Acta Hispanicad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historuiam Illustrandam 20 ( 2000) 331-369
http://www.ugr.es/~dynamis/completo20/PDF/Dyna-11.PDF

Kogman-Appel, Katrin
“Portrayals of Women with Books: Female (Il)literacy in Medieval Jewish Culture,” pp. 525-563 in volume two, Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture, two volumes (Leiden : Brill, 2012) ed. Therese Martin
Fine Arts Library. N5970 .R25 2012

Labalme, Patricia H.
“Women’s Roles in Early Modern Venice:  An Exceptional Case,” pp. 132-36 in, Beyond Their Sex:  Learned Women of the European Past (New York : New York University Press, c1980) ed. Patricia H. Labalme
Van Pelt Library. HQ1148 .B49

Meale, Carol C.
“‘Alle the bokes that I haue of latyn, englisch, and frensch’: Laywomen and their Books in Late Medieval England,” pp. 128-58 in, Women and Literature in Britian, 1150-1500 (Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993) ed. Carol C. Meale
Van Pelt Library. PR113 .W64 1993

Richler, Benjamin
“On the Education of Daughters of Wealthy Jews in Renaissance Italy,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer:  Collected Essays 68 (1998) 275-79
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

Rodrigue Schwarzwald, Ora
“Two sixteenth-century Ladino prayer books for women,” European Judaism 43.2 (2010) 37-51
Katz Center - Periodicals B1. BM1 .E86

Rosman, Moshe
“Edward Fram My Dear Daughter: Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland With a transcription of Benjamin Slonik’s Seder mitzvot nashim (The Order of Women’s Commandments), translated by Edward Fram and Agnes Romer Segal (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2007),” [important review article] Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues 16 (2008) 242-247
Van Pelt Library. HQ1172 .N37
http://muse.jhu.edu/article/254183