History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book: Censorship

• Arnheim, Arthur, “Hebrew Prints and Censorship in Altona” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 21 (2001) 3-9

http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=studbibliobook

• Baruchson-Arbib, Shifra and Gila Prebor, "Sefer Ha-ziquq" (An Index of Forbidden Hebrew Books):  The Book's use and its influence on Hebrew Printing," La Bibliofilia 109 (2007) 3-31
• Berliner, Abraham, Censur und confiscation hebräischer Bücher im Kirchenstaate: auf Grund der Inquisitions-Akten in der Vaticana und Vallicellana (Frankfurt a. M., J. Kauffmann, 1891)
• Biondi, Albano, “Inquisizione ed ebrei a Modena nel Seicento,” pp. 259-73 in, Vita e cultura ebraica nello stato estense : atti del 1 convegno internazionale di studi, Nonantola 15-16-17 maggio 1992 (Bologna:  Fattoadarte, 1993) edd. Euride Fregni and Mauro Perani
• Burnett, Stephen G., “Hebrew Censorship in Hanau:  A Mirror of Jewish-Christian Coexistence in Seventeenth-Century Germany,” pp. 199-222 in The Expulsion of the Jews:  1492 and After (New York:  Garland, 1994) edd. Raymond B. Waddinton and Arthur H. Williamson
• Burnett, Stephen G. “The Regulation of Hebrew Printing in Germany, 1555-1630:  Confessional Politics and the Limits of Jewish Toleration,” pp. 329-348 in, Infinite Boundaries:  Order, Disorder, and the Reorder of Early Modern German Culture (Kirksville, Mo. : Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, c1998) ed. Max Reinhart
• Carmilly-Weinberger, Moshe, Censorship and freedom of expression in Jewish history (New York : Sepher-Hermon Press with Yeshiva University Press, 1977)
• Castellani, Giuseppe, “Documenti circa la persecuzione dei libri ebraici a Venezia,” La Bibliofilia 7 (1905) 304-307
• Chazan, Robert, "Christian Condemnation, Censorship, and Exploitation of the Talmud," pp. 53-59 in, Printing the Talmud from Bomberg to Schottenstein (New York : Yeshiva University Museum, 2005) edd. Sharon Liberman Mintz and Gabriel M. Goldstein
• Cherubini, Laertii, Magnum bullarium Romanum : a B. Leone Magno usque ad S.D.N. Clementem X,  vol. 3, fol. 24 [Clemens VIII Papal Bull, Cum  hebraeorum  militia,  dated February  28,  1593 , prohibiting the possession or reading of the Talmud and kabbalistic works] (Lugduni : Sumptibus Petri Borde, Joannis & Petri Arnaud, 1692-1697)
• Dall’Olio, Guido, “Libri ebraici e Inquisizione a Bologna (1553-1574),” pp. 83-101 in, La cultura ebraica a Bologna tra medioevo e rinascimento (Firenze :  Giuntina, 2002)  ed. Mauro Perani
• Dall’Olio, Guido, “Ebrei papi, vescovi e inquisitori a Bologna alla metà del Cinquecento.  Le premesse dell’ espulsione del 1569,” Annali dell'Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico in Trento 25 (1999) 153-204
• Fragnito, Gigliola, “The Central and Peripheral Organization of Censorship,” pp. 8-40 in, Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2001) ed. Gigliola Fragnito
• Fragnito, Gigliola, “La censura ecclesiastica in Italia:  volgarizzamenti biblici e letteratura all’Indiice.  Bilancio degli studi e prospettive di ricerca,” pp. 39-56 in, Reading and Censorship in Early Modern Europe (Barcelona, 11-13 de diciembre de 2007) (Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona [Studia Aurea Monográfica 2], 2010) edd. María José Vega, Julien Weiss & Cesc Esteve
• Francesconi, Federica, “Jews under Surveillance: Censorship and Reading in Early Modern Italy,” pp. 127-143 in Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History. EMW 2009: Reading across Cultures:  The Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period
• Francesconi, Federica, “La censura dei libri ebraici “infetti et perniziosi” nella Modena del Seicento: processi, negoziazioni e discussioni di ebrei e cristiani nei fori dell’Inquisizione,” Archivio Italiano per la Storia della Pietà 26 (2013) 383-407
• Francesconi, Federica, “‘This Passage can be read differently: ...’ :  How Jews and Christians censored Hebrew texts in Early Modern Modena,” Festschrift in Honor of Professor Kenneth R. Stow, [Jewish History Special Issue 26 (2012) 139-160] ed. J. Berkovitz and J.H. Chajes
• Goodman, Peter, The Saint as Censor:  Robert Bellarmine Between Inquisition and Index (Leiden :  Brill, 2000)
• Grendler, Paul F.,  “The Destruction of Hebrew Books in Venice, 1568,” Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 45 (1978) 103-30

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3622310?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents [repr. as chapter 12 in, Culture and Censorship in Late Renaissance Italy and France (London:  Variorum, 1981) ed. Paul F. Grendler

• Grendler, Paul F.,  Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press:  1540-1605 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977)
• Hacker, Joseph R., “Sixteenth-century Jewish Internal Censorship of Hebrew Books,” pp.  109-20 and 268-75 in, The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) edd. Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear
• Idel, Moshe, “From R. Isaac Sagi Nahor and R. Isaac Luria:  From Hiding to Printing an Esoteric Lore,” Studia Judaica 21 (2014) 5-40
• Ioly Zorattini, Pier Cesare, “Censura e controllo della stampa ebraica a Venezia nel Cinquecento,” pp.  115-127 in, Manoscritti, frammenti e libri ebraici nell’Italia dei secoli XV-XVI (Roma : Carucci, 1991) edd. Giuliano Tamani and Angelo Vivian
• Ioly Zorattini, Pier Cesare, “Domenico Gerosolimitano in Venice - Information concerning his conversion to Catholicism and activities as ecclesiastical censor of Hebrew books in late sixteenth-century Italy,” Sefarad 58.1 (1998) 107-115
• Ioly Zorattini, P.C., "S. Uffizio di Venezia e il controllo della stampa ebraica nella seconda metà del '500" pp. 127-146 in La Censura Libraria nell'Europa del Secolo XVI (Udine : Forum, 1997) ed. Ugo Rozzo
• Kaufmann, David, “Die Verbrennung der Talmudischen Litteratur in der Republik Venedig,” Jewish Quarterly Review 13 (1901) 533-538
• Kisch, Guido, "Die Zensur jüdischer Bücher in Böhmen," Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Juden in der Cechoslovakischen Republik  2 (1930) 456-490
• Kracauer, Isidor, “Actenstücke zur Geschichte der Confiskation der hebräischen Schriften in Frankfurt a. M.,” Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums 44(1900) 114–26, 167–77, 220–34
• Kracauer, Isidor, “Verzeichniss der von Pfefferkorn 1510 in Frankfurt a. M. confiscierten jüdischen Bücher,” Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums 44 (1900) 320–459
• Kubátová, Ludmila, “K cenzur hebrejských a židovských knih, tisku a rukopisu v Cechách od poloviny 16. století do poloviny 19. Století,” [The censorship of Hebrew and Jewish books, prints and manuscripts in Bohemia from the 16th century to the mid-19th  Century] Národní knihovna. Knihovnická revue 13.1 (2003), 12-20
• O'Callaghan, Daniel, The Preservation of Jewish Religious Books in Sixteenth-Century Germany: Johannes Reuchlin's Augenspiegel (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013)
• Offenberg, Adri K., “Alessandro Scipione, ‘Reveditor’ of Hebrew books in Mantua at the end of the sixteenth century,” pp. 141-175 in Boek & Letter:  Boekwetenschappelijke bijdragen ter gelegenheid van het afscheid van prof. dr. Frans A. Janssen (Amsterdam : De Buitenkant, 2004) edd.  J.A.A.M.  Biemans, Lisa Kuitert and Piet Verkruijsse
• Offenberg, Adri K., “The censorship of Hebrew books in sixteenth-century Italy,” pp. 15-29 in, Against the Law:  Crime, Sharp Practice and the control of print (New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : British Library, 2004) edd. Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote
• Parente, Fausto,  “La Chiesa e il Talmud,” pp. 521-634 in, Storia d’Italia, Annali, vol. 11.  Gli ebrei in Italia, vol. 1, Dall’alto Mediovevo all’ eta dei ghetti (Torino:  Giulio Einaudi, 1996) ed. Corrado Vivanti

[A French translation appeared as “L’Église et le Talmud,” in his collected articles, Les juifs et l’Église romaine à l’époque moderne (Paris :  Honore´ Champion, 2007) 233-394

• Parente, Fausto; tr. by Adrian Belton, “The Index, the Holy Office, the Condemnation of the Talmud and Publication of Clement VIII’s Index,” pp. 163-193 in, Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001) ed. Gigliola Fragnito
• Perani, Mauro, “Confisca e censura du libri ebraici a Modena fra cinque e seicento,” pp. 287-320 in, L’inquisizione egli ebrei in Italia (Roma : Laterza, 1994) ed. Michele Luzzati
• Perani, Mauro, "Confisca e censura di libri ebraici a Modena fra Cinque e Seicento," pp. 287-320 in, L'Inquisizione e gli ebrei in Italia (Rom3 : Laterza, 1994) ed. Michele Luzzati
• Pilarczyk, Krzysztof, “Zur Zensurfrage der jüdischen Bücher in Polen im 16. und 17,” Jahrhundert, pp. II:346-353 in Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Proceedings of the 6th EAJS Congress, Toledo, July 1988 (Leiden - Boston - Koeln: Brill 1999) edd. Judit Targarona Borras and Angel Saenz-Badillos
• Pilarczyk, Krzysztof, “Bishop Marcin Szyszkowski and the Printer Tsvi Kalonymos Jaffe of Lublin: On Censorship of Books in the Kraków Diocese in the Seventeenth Century,” [Hebrew] Gal’Ed 18 (2002) 25-40
• Pilarczyk, Krzysztof, “Spory o druk Talmudu w Pierwszej Rzeczypospolitej : z dziejów cenzury w XVI i XVII wieku,” [Disputes about the printing of the Talmud in the First Republic : the history of censorship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries] pp. 45-61 in, Zydzi i judaizm we wspólczesnych badaniach polskich, T. 2: Materialy konferencyjne, Kraków 24-26 XI 1998 (Krako´w : Polska Akademia Umieje?tnos´ci, Komisja Historii i Kultury Z?ydo´w, 2000) edd. K. Pilarczyk and S. Gasiorowskiego, Kraków  
• Pilarczyk, Krzysztof, “Zur Zensurfrage des Talmud in Polen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert,” Studia Judaica 2 (1999) 185-195
• Popper, William; introd. by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, The censorship of Hebrew books. [Reprint of the 1899 ed ... with a new introd.] (New York:  Ktav Pub. House, 1969). Popper's work has also been made available as an online spreadsheet by the Footprints project.
• Porges, Nathan, “Der hebraische Index expurgatorius sefer ha-zikuk,” pp. 273-95 in volume 2, Festschrift zum Siebzigsten Geburtstage A. Berliner's , 2 volumes (Berlin : Bi-defus T. H. Iṭtsḳoṿsḳi, 1903; Frankfurt/M:  J. Kauffmann, 1903) edd. Aron Freimann and Meier Hildesheimer
• Prebor, Gila, "From Jerusalem to Venice: The Life of Domenico Yerushalmi, His Writings and His Work as a Censor," [Hebrew] Pe'amim 111/112 (2007) 215-242

English translation: "Domenico Yerushalmi: his Life, Writings and Work as a Censor,"  Materia giudaica. Rivista dell'associazione italiana per lo studio de giudaismo XV-XVI (2010-2011) 467-481

• Prebor, Gila, “Sefer ha Ziquq of Domenico Yerushalmi,” [Hebrew] Italia 18 (2008) 7-296
• Price, David H., Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books (Oxford :  Oxford University Press, 2010)
• Price, David H., "Who or what saved the Jewish books?: Johannes Reuchlin's role in the Jewish book pogrom of 1509-1510," Daphnis 39 (2010)479 - 517
• Price, David H., "'Whether to Confiscate, Burn and Destroy All Jewish Books':, Johannes Reuchlin and the Jewish Book Controversy" pp. 47-54 in Censorship Moments: Reading Texts in the History of Censorship and Freedom of Expression (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) ed. Geoff Kemp
• Putík, Alexandr, "The censorship of Hebrew books in Prague 1512-1670 (1672)," pp. 186-213 in Hebrew Printing in Bohemia and Moravia. Academia  (Prague:  Jewish Museum in Prague, 2012)
• Ravid, Benjamin, “The Prohibition Against Jewish Printing and Publishing in Venice and the Difficulties of Leone Modena,” pp. 135-53 in, Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1979) ed. Isadore Twersky
• Raz, Amnon, 16הצנזורה הקתולית והספרות העברית במאה ה־ = Censorship as a design : Catholic censorship and Hebrew literature in the 16th century (Jerusalem : ha-Universitah ha-Ivrit, Thesis (M.A.), 1989.)
• Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon, “Law and censure:  the printing of the Shulkhan Arukh as the commencment of Jewish modernity,” [Hebrew] pp. 306-335 in,  טוב עלם: זיכרון קהילה ומגדר בחברות יהודיות בימי הביניים ובראשית העת החדשה, מאמרים לכבודו של ראובן בונפיל    = Tov Elem:  Memory, Community and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Societies.  Essays in honor of Robert Bonfil (Jerusalem:  The Bialik Institute and The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, 2011) edd. Elisheva Baumgarten, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin and Roni Weinstein
• Raz-Krakozkin, Amnon, "From Safed to Venice: The Shulhan 'Arukh and the Censor," pp. 91 - 115 in Tradition, Heterodoxy and Religious Culture: Judaism and Christianity in the Early Modern Period (Beer-Sheva : Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, c2006) edd. Chanita Goodblatt and Howard Kreisel
• Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon; tr. by Jackie Feldman, The censor, the editor, and the text : the Catholic Church and the shaping of the Jewish canon in the sixteenth century (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007)

Contesting some of Raz-Krakotzhin’s conclusions: 

Kenneth Stow, in AJS Review 33.1 (2009) 181-85 http://www.jstor.org/journals/03640094.html 

Adam Shear, Renaissance Quarterly 61.3 (2008) 905-07 http://www.jstor.org/journals/00344338.html

• Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon, הצנזור, העורך והטקסט : הצנזורה הקתולית והדפוס העברי במאה השש עשרה = Censorship, editing and the text : Catholic censorship and Hebrew literature in the sixteenth century (Jerusalem : Hotsa'at sefarim a. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-Universitah ha-Ivrit, c2005) Italia. Supplement series ; 2.
• Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon, “The Censor as a Mediator:  Printing, Censorship and the Shaping of Hebrew Literature,” pp. 35-57 in The Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews; Contexts, Sources and Perspectives (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004) ed. Stephan Wendehorst
• Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon, “Persecution and the Art of Printing.  Hebrew Books in Italy in the 1550s,” pp. 97-108 in, Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe.  Essays in honor of David B. Ruderman (Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press ; Cincinnati, OH : Hebrew Union College Press, 2014) edd.  Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Adam Shear, and Elchanan Reiner
• Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon, "Printing, burning and censorship : Hebrew books in Italy in the 1550s," Judaica 66,1 (2010) 1-12
• Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon, “Burning and Printing: The Hebrew Book during the Counter-Reformation,” [Hebrew] Zmanim 112 (2010) 30-41
• Reuchlin, Johannes, trans. by Peter Wortsman, Recommendation Whether to Confiscate, Destroy and Burn All Jewish Books (New York :  Paulist Press, 2000)
• Rostagno, Lucia, "Note su Domenico Gerosolimitano: A proposito del recente saggio di M. Austin PARTE I," Rivista degli studi orientali 76(2002) 231-262
• Rostagno, Lucia, "Note su Domenico Gerosolimitano: PARTE II," Rivista degli studi orientali 77 (2003) 231-275
• Sacerdote, Gustave, “Deux Index Expurgatoires de Livres Hébreux,” Revue des études juives 30 (1895) 257-83
• Sonne, Isaiah, Expurgation of Hebrew books--the work of Jewish scholars : a contribution to the history of the censorship of Hebrew books in Italy in the sixteenth century (New York : New York Public Library, 1943)
• Stow, Kenneth R., “The Burning of the Talmud in 1553 in Light of Sixteenth Century Catholic Attitudes toward the Talmud,” Bibliotheque d’humanisme et renaissance 34 (1972) 435-459
• Stow, Kenneth R., Catholic thought and papal Jewry policy, 1555-1593 (New York : Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977)
• Strobach, Berndt, "Hebräischer Buchdruck zwischen Hofjuden-Mäzenatentum und christlicher Zensur: Wie die Harzstadt Blankenburg nicht zum jüdischen Publikationsort wurde," Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 60 (2008) 235-252
• Studemund-Halevy, Michael, “L'imprimerie sefarade a Hambourg et la censure protestante et rabbinique,” Revue des études juives 159 (2000) 485-500
• Thomanek, Judith, " 'Dies ist die Mishnah des Giuseppe Salvador Ottolenghi.'  Zu Druck, Besitzer, Zensor und Zensur eines hebräischen Buches aus dem 16. Jahrhundert," pp. 93-123 in Zwischen Zensur und Selbstbesinnung.  Christliche Rezeptionen des Judentums (Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, 2009) edd. Christfried Böttrich, Judith Thomanek, Thomas Willi
• Toaff, Ariel, “Giovanni Antonio Costanzi, Ultimo Censore di Libri ebraici a Roma (1745-1756 ca.),” La Rassegna Mensile di Israel 67 (2001) 203-214
• Van Boxel, Piet, “Hebrew Books and Censorship in Sixteenth-Century Italy,” pp. 73-99 in Jewish Books and their Readers (Leiden:  Brill, 2016) edd. Scott Mandelbrote and Joanna Weinberg
• Van Boxel, Piet, “Cardinal Santoro and the Expurgation of Hebrew Literature,” pp. 19-34 in The Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews; Contexts, Sources and Perspectives (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004) ed. Stephan Wendehorst
• Van Boxel, Piet, “Robert Bellarmine, Christian Hebraist and Censor,” pp. 251-275 in, History of Scholarship; a selection of papers from the seminar on the history of scholarship held annually at the Warburg Institute (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006) edd. Christopher Ligota and Jean-Louis Quantin
• Van Boxel, Piet, “Robert Bellarmine Reads Rashi: Rabbinic Bible Commentaries and the Burning of the Talmud,” pp. 121-132 in, The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) edd. Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear
• Walton, Michael T. and Phyllis J. Walton, "In Defense of the Church Militant: The Censorship of the Rashi Commentary in the Magna Biblia Rabbinica," The Sixteenth Century Journal 21 (1990) 385-400
• Wendehorst, Stephan, ed., The Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews; Contexts, Sources and Perspectives (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.)
• Wolf, Gershon, “Auto da fé jüdischer Bücher in Prag, 1714,” Hebräische Bibliographie 6 (1863) 35-44
• Yaari, Abraham, “Burning the Talmud in Italy,” [Hebrew] pp. 198-234 in מחקרי ספר ; פרקים בתולדות הספר העברי = Studies in Hebrew booklore (Jerusalem: Mosad ha-Rav Kook, 1958)