History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book: Eastern Europe

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

Eastern Europe

  • Balaban, Majer,  “Zur Geschichte der hebräischen Druckereien in Polen,” Soncino-Blätter 3 (1929/1930) 1-50
  • Cohen, Y.Y., “Hebrew Printing in Czernowitz,” [Hebrew] Areshet 3 (1961) 277-375; 4 (1966) 517.
  • Friedberg, Bernhard,  תולדות הדפוס העברי בפולניה = History of Hebrew typography in Poland Tel-Aviv, 1950
  • Heller, Marvin J., "On the Identity of the First Printers in Slavuta," Gutenberg Jahrbuch (2011) 269-281
  • Hill, Brad Sabin, Hebrew Printing in Ukraine.  <Includes> “A gazetteer of towns of Hebrew printing and publishing in Ukraine.”  [Catalogue of an exhibition held at the George Washington University, Gelman Library from November 2008 - May 2009] (Washington D.C.:  George Washington University, 2008)
  • Marx, Moses, "A Bibliography of Hebrew Printing in Dyhernfurth, 1689-1718," pp. 217-236 in, Studies in Jewish bibliography, history and literature in honor of I. Edward Kiev (New York : Ktav Publishing House, 1971) ed. Charles Berlin
  • Migoń, Krzysztof, translated by Katarzyna Hussar, “The Jewish book in Silesia. A research reconnaissance,” original published in Polish, Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka, 1989, vol. 44, no. 1, p. 89-101
  • Pilarczyk, Krzysztof, “Hebrew Printing Houses in Poland against the background of their history in the World:  an Outline with Refence Books on the Subject,” Studia Judaica 7.2 (2004) 201-221
  • Pilarczyk, Krzysztof, Drukowana książka hebrajska a religia : vademecum bibliologiczne (Krako´w : Wydawnictwo Antykwa, 2012)
  • Pilarczyk, Krzysztof, “Hebrajska ksiazka drukowana w Europie srodkowowschodniej w XVI-XVIII wieku. Topografia, wielkosc produkcji i funkcja,” [The Hebrew book printed in Central - Eastern Europe in the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Topography, production size and function], Studia Judaica 10 (2007) 1-23
  • Pilarczyk, Krzysztof, Leksykon drukarzy ksiag hebrajskich w Polsce: z bibliografia polono-judaików w jezykach zydowskich (XVI-XVIII wiek) [Lexicon of printers of Hebrew books in Poland : bibliography polono - Judaica in the Jewish languages ( XVI – XVIII centuries)] (Krako´w : Wydawn. Antykwa, 2004)
  • Schwab, Moïse, “Une Editione Rarissime du Talmud,” Revue des études juives 63 (1912) 300-303
  • Teter, Magda and Edward Fram, “Apostasy, Fraud, and the Beginnings of Hebrew Printing in Cracow,” AJS Review 30 (2006) 31-66
  • Wojakowski, Józef, “Jewish Printing in Old Poland (According to Polish Sources),” Revue Européenne des Études Hébraïques 4 (2000) 97-105