History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book: N. Africa, UK, France, India (and multiples)

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

North Africa

  • Freimann, Aron, “Typographisches:  Die hebraeische Druckerei in Fez in Jahre 1521-1526,” Zeitschrift für Hebräische Bibliographie 14 (1910) 79-80, 15 (1911) 180-182
  • Marciano, Eliahu Raphael, ספר בני מלכים : והוא תולדות הספר העברי במרוקו משנת רע"ז עד שנת תשמ"ט  =  The book of the Sons of Kings. A History of the Hebrew Book in Morocco from 1517 to 1989 (Jerusalem: Mekhon Harasham (Rehov Aviad 18), 1989
  • Available at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York
  • Tedghi, Joseph, הספר והדפוס העברי בפאס  = The Book and Hebrew Printing in Fez (Jerusalem : Mekhon Ben Tsevi, 1994)
  • Tedghi, Joseph, “Books, Manuscripts and Hebrew Printing in Fez,” [Hebrew] Pe’amim 52 (1992) 47-74
  • Rowland-Smith, Diana, “The beginnings of Hebrew Printing in Egypt,” British Library Journal 15 (1989) 16-22
    repr. pp. 215-221 in, The History of the Book in the Middle East (Aldershot, UK:  Ashgate Publishing Group, 2013) ed. Geoffrey Roper

India

Hill, Brad Sabin, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Marathi Jewish printing in India ; Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic printing in Baghdad : rare printed books from the Valmadonna Trust Library, London (Netherlands : IDC Publishers, 2008)

France

  • Schwarfuchs, Lyse, Le Livre hébreu à Paris au XVIe siècle, Inventaire chronologique (Paris:  Bibliothe`que nationale de France, 2004)
  • Schwarfuchs, Lyse, L'hébreu dans le livre lyonnais au XVIe siècle: inventaire chronologique (Lyon : ENS E´ditions : Institut d'histoire du livre 2008)
  • Weil, Gérard, "Petite Histoire de L'Imprimerie hebraique en Alsace," Bulletin de nos Communautés : organe du judaïsme d'Alsace et de Lorraine 13 (1957)  n°12 p.9, n°13, p.8, n°15, p.8

 

 

England

Roth, Cecil, הדפוס העברי בלונדון: נסיון ביבליוגרפי = The Hebrew press in London: A bibliographical experiment.  The origins of Hebrew Typography in England.
Katz Center - Stacks. Z6366 .R684 1937
[two offprints bound together, Hebrew and English, repr. from:  Kiryat Sefer 14 (1937) 97-104  and 379-88 [Hebrew], and Journal of Jewish Bibliography 1(1938) 2-9]

Multiple Locations

  • Benayahu, Meir, “The Shift of the Centre of Hebrew Printing from Venice to Amsterdam and the Competition with the Jewish Printing in Constantinople,” [Hebrew] pp. 41-68 in volume 1, מחקרים על תולדות יהדות הולנד = Studies on the History of Dutch Jewry, 5 volumes (1975-1988) ed. Jozeph Michman
  • Freimann, Aron, "Elieser ben Isak und seine Drucke in Lublin, Konstantinopel und Safed," Zeitschrift für Hebräische Bibliographie 11 (1907) 152-157