History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book: Finances and Business Practices

This is a guide to the History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book. It was copied with permission from the guide at the University of Pennsylvania, created by Bruce E. Nielsen, and updated for Columbia University by Michelle Chesner

Finances and Business Practices

Baruchson, Shifra
“Money and Culture:  Financing Sources and Methods in the Hebrew Printing Shops in Cinquecento Italy,” La Bibliofilia 92 (2000) 23-39
Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .B56

Bonfil, Robert
“A contract for printing books in 19th century Livorno,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 64 (1992/3) 1089-94
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

Bregoli, Francesca
“Commerce and Jewish Culture.  The Business of Hebrew Publishing,” pp. 181-207 in, Mediterranean Enlightenment :  Livornese Jews, Tuscan culture, and eighteenth-century reform (Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2014) ed. Francesca Bregoli
Van Pelt Library. DS135.I85 L5817 2014

Fuks, Lajb and Renate G. Fuks-Mansfeld
“The Financiers of Menasseh Ben Israel’s Printing House in Amsterdam, 1627-1655,” pp. 313-319 in, יד להימן קובץ מחקרים לזכר א"מ הברמן = The A. M. Habermann Memorial Volume (Lod : Mekhon Haberman le-meh?k?ere sifrut, 1983) ed. Zevi Malachi
Van Pelt Library. PJ5016 .Y33 1983

​Pollak, Michael
“Production Costs in Fifteenth Century Printing,” Library Quarterly 39 (1969) 318-30
Research Annex (LIBRA). Z671 .L713
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4306023

Pollak, Michael
“The Daily Performance of a Printing Press in 1476:  Evidence from a Hebrew Incunable,” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1974) 66-76
Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .G98
https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=GDZPPN000484997

Pollak, Michael
“The Performance of the Wooden Printing Press,” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 42.2 (1972) 218 - 264
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4306163.pdf?acceptTC=true

Roberts, Julian and G.J. Toomer
“The Fetherstone Catalogue of Hebrew Books,” Bodleian Library Record 19.1 (2006) 47-76 [in the year 1650, George Walker purchased 101 Hebrew imprints from Henry Fetherstone for Sion College, London]
Research Annex (LIBRA). Z792.O94 B6

Rosenthal, Avraham
“Some remarks on «The daily performance of a printing press in 1476»,” Gutenberg- Jahrbuch 54 (1979) 39-50
Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .G98
https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=GDZPPN000488267

Schwarz, Arthur Z.
“Eine Verkaufsbestätigung des Geršom Soncino,” Soncino Blätter 1 (1925/6) 14-15
Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z6367 .S69

Simonsohn, Shlomo
“A Contact for the Printing of Hebrew Books in Cremona,” [Hebrew], pp. 143-50 in, Scritti in Memoria di Umberto Nahon : saggi sull' ebraismo italiano (Jerusalem:  Sally Mayer Foundation, 1978) edd. Robert Bonfil et al.
Katz Center - Stacks. BM42.N346 B664 1978

Simpson, Julianne
“Selling the Biblia Regia: The Marketing and Distribution Methods for Christopher Plantin's Polyglot Bible,” pp. 27-55 in, Books for Sale: The Advertising and Promotion of Print since the Fifteenth Century (New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : British Library, 2009) edd. Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote
Van Pelt Library. Z280 .B68 2009

Van Rooden, Peter T. and Jan Wim Wesselius
“Two Early Cases of Publication by Subscription in Holland and Germany; Jacob Abendana’s Mikhlol  Yofi (1661) and David Cohen de Lara’s Keter kehunah (1667),” Quaerendo 16 (1986) 110-30
Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .Q13
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157006986x00125

Copyright

  • Benayahu, Meir, Haskamah u-reshut bi-defuse Ṿenetsiʼah (Jerusalem: Makhon ben Zvi/Mossad haRav Kook, 1971)