History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book: Italy

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

Italy

  • Amram, David Werner, The makers of Hebrew books in Italy : being chapters in the history of the Hebrew printing press (Philadelphia : J. H. Greenstone, 1909)
  • Andreatta, Michela, The Printing of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Prayer Books Printed for the Shomrim la-Boker Confraternities,” pp. 156-170 in The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) eds. Joseph Hacker and Adam Shear
  • Benayahu, Meir, הדפוס העברי בקרימונה : תולדות בית הדפוס של וינצינצו קונטי : הזיקוק ושריפת הספרים = Hebrew printing at Cremona; its history and bibliography (Jerusalem : Mekhon Ben-Tsevi, 1971)
  • Benayahu, Meir, “On the Printing and Distributing of Books in Italy,” [Hebrew] Sinai 34 (1934) 156-202
  • Benayahu, Meir, “Turkish Imprints Actually printed in Italy,” [Hebrew] Sinai 72 (1973) 163-184
  • Bianchi, Isidoro, Sulle tipografie Ebraiche di Cremona nel secolo XVI : col ragguaglio di un salterio Ebraico stampato in detta citta' nel secolo medisimo (Cremona : Tipografia Feraboli, 1807)
  • Bloch, Joshua, Hebrew printing in Riva di Trento (New York : New York Public Library, 1933); [repr. pp. 89-110 in, Hebrew Printing and Bibliography (New York, 1976)
  • Bloch, Joshua, “A Hitherto Unrecorded Hebrew Publication from Riva di Trento,” Jewish Quarterly Review n.s. 26 (1935) 129-132
  • Bloch, Joshua, "Venetian Printers of Hebrew Books," in Hebrew Printing and Bibliography, ed. Charles Berlin (New York, NYPL, 1976), 65-88
  • Bregoli, Francesca, “Hebrew Printing and Communication Networks between Livorno and North Africa, 1740-1789,” Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, s.n.  (2007-2008) 51-59
  • Bregoli, Francesca, “Privilegi di stampa e acculturazione: editoria ebraica nella Livorno del '700,” Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts VI (2007) 67-78

Calimani, Riccardo
"Gli editori di libri ebraici a Venezia," pp. 55-62 in, Armeni, ebrei, greci stampatori a Venezia (Venice:  Casa editrice armena, 1989) ed. Scilla Abbiati
Available via BorrowDirect from Harvard University

Carmoly, Eliakim
Annalen der hebräischen typographie von Riva di Trento (1558-1562)
Frankfurt am Main : G. Hess, 1868
Katz Center - Stacks Box 1. Z228.H4 F73 1902
Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924079823682;view=1up;seq=5

Fortis, Umberto
Editoria in ebraico a Venezia: catalogo della mostra
Venice:  Arsenale, 1991
Katz Center - Stacks. Z156.V4 E4 1991

Frattarolo, Renzo
Tipografi e librai, ebrei e non, nel Napoletano, alla fine del XV secolo
Firenze, Sansoni, 1956.
Research Annex (LIBRA Rare) - must be used in Rare Book Reading Room. 90B B473 no.22-32

Freimann, Aron
"Die hebraischen Drucke in Rom im 16. Jahrhundert," pp. 53-67 in, Festschrift dr. Jakob Freimann zum 70. geburtstag (Berlin :   Viktoria gmbh, 1937)
Katz Center - Stacks. BM40 .F8 1937

Fumagalli, Pier Francesco
“Stampa, sequestri e commercio di libri ebraici nel Ducato di Milano,” Annali della Biblioteca Statale e Libreria Civica di Cremona 34 (1983) 67-80
Van Pelt Library. Z933 .C73

Fumagalli, Pier Francesco
Tipografia ebraica a Cremona 1556-1576: mostra bibliografica
Roma: Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1985
Available via BorrowDirect from Brown University and Harvard University

Heller, Marvin J.
“A little-known chapter in Hebrew printing:  Francesco dalle Donne and the beginning of Hebrew printing in Verona in the sixteenth century,” The papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 94 (2000) 333-346
Van Pelt Library. Z1008.B51P

Heller, Marvin J.
“‘There Were in Padua Almost as Many Hebrew Printers as Hebrew Books’ : the Sixteenth Century Hebrew Press in Padua,” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 78 (2003) 86-92.
Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .G98
https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=PPN366382810_0078|log21

Heller, Marvin J.
“Jedidiah ben Isaac Gabbai and the first decade of Hebrew printing in Livorno,” 165-77 in, Studies in the making of the early Hebrew Book (Leiden; Boston:  Brill, 2008) [repr. of  Los Muestros  33 (1998) 40–41, and 34 (1999) 28–30]
Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H46 2008
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H46 2008

Heller, Marvin J.
“Abraham ben Raphael Meldola and the resumption of printing in Livorno,” Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book
[repr. of International Sephardic Journal 2 (2005) 83-94]
Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H46 2008
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H46 2008

Ioly Zorattini, Pier Cesare
“Iedidia Salomon Gabbai, It’s Printing Office to Livorno and other Jewish Printing Offices in Italy of the 1600s,” La Bibliofilia 111 (2009) 29-48
Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .B56

Marx, Alexander
"Ein verschollener Pergamentdruck Riva di Trento 1560 (Aus den Responsen des R. Moses Provenzale)," pp. 81-86 in, Festschrit für Aron Freimann zum 60. Geburtstage (Berlin : Die Gesellschaft, 1935) edd. Alexander Marx and Herrmann Meyer
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 .F4

Offenberg, Adri K.
“The Chronology of Hebrew Printing at Mantua in the Fifteenth Century: A Re-examination,” The Library, sixth series, 16.4 (1994) 298-315
Van Pelt Library. Z671 .L69

Pavoncello, Nello
Le tipografie ebraiche minori a Venezia
Rome :  s.n., 1990
Available at Yeshiva University and University of Maryland

Pavoncello, Nello
“La tipografia ebraica in Piemonte,” La Rassegna mensile di Israel 36 (1970) 96-100
Katz Center - Periodicals B2. PERIODICAL
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41283202.pdf?_=1462368650440

Pavoncello, Nello
“La tipografia ebraica nelle Marche,” La Rassegna Mensile di Israel 46 (1980) 49-60
Katz Center - Periodicals B2. PERIODICAL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41284715.pdf?_=1462372831237

Pavoncello, Nello
La tipografia Ebraica in Firenze
Rome :  s.n., 1992
Available at Harvard University, but does not circulate.

Pieteli, Angelo
“An Unknown Publication from Ferrara,” [Hebrew] Alei Sefer 18 (1996) 147-152
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z228.H4 A57
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A57
http://www.jstor.org/stable/24158814?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Roth, Cecil
“The Marrano Press at Ferrara, 1552-1555,” The Modern Language Review 38 (1943) 307-317
Van Pelt Library. PB1 .M65

Roth, Cecil
“A Jewish Printer in Naples, 1477,” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 39 (1956) 188-199
Katz Center - Periodicals B1. Z921 .M18B
Van Pelt Library. Z921 .M18B

Rypins, Stanley
“The Ferrara Bible at Press,” The Library 5. ser. 10 (1955) 244-269
Van Pelt Library.  Z671 .L69
http://library.oxfordjournals.org/content/s5-X/4/244.full.pdf+html
cf. The Library 5. ser. 13 (1958) 128 “The Ferrara Bible:  An Addition to the Census”
http://library.oxfordjournals.org/content/s5-XIII/2/128.full.pdf+html

Shear, Adam
“Judah Moscato’s Sources and Hebrew Printing in the Sixteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey,” pp. 121-42 in, Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012) edd. Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto   
Katz Center - Stacks. BM755.M59 R33 2012
Van Pelt Library. BM755.M59 R33 2012

Sonne, Isaiah
“R. Moshe b. Shushan and the Sabbionetta Printers” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 8 (1931) 513-519
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

Sonnino, Guido
“Storia della tipografia ebraica in Livorno con introduzione e catalogo di opere e di autori,” Il Vessillo Israelitico 59 (1911) 424-430, 506-11, 584- 88, 662-666; 60 (1912) 4-9, 138-40, 211-14, 282-83, 314-16, 458-61, 527-30, 562-64
Katz Center – Special. DS133 .E49 1874

Tamani, Giuliano
“Edizioni ebraiche veneziane dei secoli xvi – xvii,” pp. 29-36 in, La civiltà del libro e la stampa a Venezia.  Testi sacri ebraici, cristiani, islamici dal Quattrocento al Settecento. Catalogo della mostra (Padua:  Il Poligrafo, 2000) ed. Simonetta Pelusi
Available through ILL

Tamani, Giuliano and Angelo Vivian, edd.
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
Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 M36 1991

Toaff, Ariel
“Stampe rare della Biblioteca della Comunità Israelitica di Roma scampate al saccheggio nazista,” La Bibliofilia 80 (1978) 139-149
Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .B56

Vivian, Angelo
"Frammenti, manoscritti e stampe ebraiche di Pisa," pp. 215-226 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
Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 M36 1991

Vogelman-Goldfield, Naomi
“Some  Reflections on the Hebrew Printing in Italy During the Sixteenth Century,” pp. 99-113 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
Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 M36 1991

Yudlov, Isaac
“Hebrew Printing in 16th Century Mantova,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 49 (1973/4) 236-41 and 636-42
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

Zunz, Leopold
“Drucker und Drucke von Mantua (A. 1476 bis 1662),” pp. 249-261 in, Zur Geschichte und Literatur (Berlin : Veit und Comp., 1845)
Katz Center - Stacks. PJ5008 .Z86 1845
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