History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book: Printing specific texts

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 Margolis

Specific titles

Shulhan Arukh

Ben Menahem, Naftali. “The Early Editions of the Shulhan Arukh,” [Hebrew] pp. 101-120 in, Rabbi Yosef Karo:  Inquiries and Studies in the teachings of Maran, the author of Shulhan Arukh (Jerusalem: Mossad Harav Kook, 1969) ed. Yitzhak Raphael

Fram, Edward, The Codification of Jewish Law on the Cusp of Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Margaliot, Reuven, “The First Edition of the Shulhan Arukh,” [Hebrew] pp. 89-100, in Rabbi Yosef Karo: Inquiries and Studies in the teachings of Maran, the author of Shulhan Arukh [Hebrew] (Jerusalem: Mossad Harav Kook, 1969) ed. Yitzhak Raphael

Levush

Sládek, Pavel, "A Sixteenth-Century Rabbi as a Published Author: The Early Editions of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe’s Levushim," in Connecting Histories; Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe (2019) 49-66

Ein Ya'akov

Lehman, Marjorie, The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib's search for faith in the Talmudic Corpus (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012)

Kuzari

Shear, Adam, The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Sefer Hasidim

Skloot, Joseph, First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and early modern Hebrew printing (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2023)